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...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...
...looks as if the Democrats haven't got the courage and stamina to fulfill their platform pledges and make the promised 25% reduction in expenditures." Senators Long and Connally vowed that they would never support tax legislation which did not also raise surtaxes on larger incomes. Representative Snell, Republican leader in the House, took advantage of the confusion to remark: "The new Democratic motto is 'Soak the poor.' Last session it was 'Soak the rich.' Now they propose to load everything onto the small income taxpayer...
...Republican majority leader who would not have succeeded to the Speakership even under favorable circumstances was Connecticut's gangling Tilson. When his party went into the minority, he was displaced by New York's Snell as leader. * Convicted of using the mails to defraud, the slickers were sentenced last week to seven and five years in Atlanta Penitentiary. * Last week "Hampton," the 100-year-old Wadsworth home at Geneseo, burned to the ground in its owner's absence. Loss...
...busy-buzzing bee was President Hoover last week. He was notified by a joint committee that Congress was in session. Said Representative Snell afterwards: "He seemed quite surprised, but said he would communicate with the Congress in writing. ..." The opening of Congress brought a mass of legislative detail to the President's desk. His State-of-the-Union message had to be whipped into final form for the printer. He paraded billion-dollar columns into regimental front for the 1934 budget (see p. 11). Between times he held a series of conferences with Secretaries Stimson and Mills on British...
...House offices to talk War Debts with the President. At his elbow during the two-hour conference were Secretary of State Stimson and Secretary Mills. Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Ways & Means Chairman Collier and Senators Harrison and George represented the Democracy in Congress. Eminent Republicans included Minority Leader Snell, Representatives Hawley. Treadway and Bacharach of Ways & Means and Senators Watson and Reed...