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Last week the Democrats' leader in the U. S. Senate, Alben Barkley of Kentucky, had something to say about the long-pending Logan-Walter Bill. "I still am not sure," said Mr. Barkley, "what its passage will do to all the agencies of the Government. . . . The more one discusses it, the less he understands it." Brighter Senators than Alben Barkley agreed, wearily passed (27-to-25) a measure which could subject any act, rule, decision of such agencies as NLRB, SEC, FCC, TVA and many others to court review...
...Smith amendments seemed to be safely stalled, since the Committee on Education and Labor had not even found time to study them. But this week, over the protestations of Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley that the Logan-Walter Bill was "crudely drawn" and that a new report on the whole subject of administrative procedure was due to come from the Attorney General's office on Dec. 1, a recalcitrant Senate called the bill out for debate...
Totalitarian Trend. In the Senate of the United States next day Majority Leader Alben William ("Dear Alben") Barkley rose to place a report by Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner (concerning two brewers who were supposed to have contributed $100,000 to Leader Barkley's 1938 campaign for reelection) on the record. It was, said Senator Barkley, a "scurrilous, contemptible and indecent" article. "In my judgment [Alsop & Kintner] would rather tell a falsehood for nothing than be paid to tell the truth...
There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped...
Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week...