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...Washington observer had by last week convinced himself that to President Roosevelt court curses on the New Deal are really blessings in disguise. Chief clues were the President's outburst after the Supreme Court's NRA decision, his letter three weeks ago urging passage of the Guffey Bill despite "doubt as to [its] constitutionality, however reasonable." From these, political detectives surmised that the President expects the Supreme Court, on the eve of next year's election, to throw out almost his whole program, whereupon he will go to the country declaring in effect...
...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. ... I understand that questions of the Constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen. . . . Manifestly, no one is in apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly...
...Most important of all was the public announcement of the President's intention to have his labor bills passed no matter how "reasonable"' might be the doubt of their Constitutionality. There is such doubt about the Labor Disputes Bill. There is a lot more doubt about the Guffey Coal Bill which, in fact, amounts to NRA's Soft Coal Code being re-enacted into law although the Supreme Court ruled that, and all other codes, unconstitutional. Attorney General Cummings refused to furnish the Ways & Means Committee with a brief for its Constitutionality and, according to Washington talk...
...begin Monday morning. What strike? asked the President. Why, the soft coal strike, said the Secretary. Oh, was there going to be a coal strike? The President had not heard of it. It had been postponed to July 1 when he had promised to press for passage of the Guffey Coal Bill and he had assumed it would be postponed again. Hastily the President asked McIntyre to get Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins on the telephone. After some difficulty "Mac" located her lunching with Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Perkins had not known there was to be a coal strike. Besides...
Though the Guffey bill was prominently listed among the President's "must" legislation for this session, Attorney General Cummings, it was learned, had been quietly asked by the White House to look the measure over in its present form, give the Administration a steer as to whether it was constitutional...