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...Supreme Court Plan, the Senate's "nomination'' of Leader Joseph T. Robinson for the Court (see p. 17). By the week's end, however, he was again pushing events before him, getting under way his first big project since his return from the tantalizing tarpon of Texas: his drive for wage & hour legislation...
...Jefferson County. In the Texas Legislature sportsmen and conservationists joined with fishing interests to fight for State action against the drilling, pass laws to keep Texas oil fields out of the water. This was the first time any oil company had proposed to drill in the Gulf proper and tarpon fishermen envisioned miles of future wells ruining their fun. Last week however, it looked as though Humble? would have its way. At Austin the Legislature adjourned without acting on any of the bills introduced by Humble's opponents, leaving the matter up to the State Railroad Commission, which regulates...
...Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...
...economy, they thought they were leaving him favorably disposed toward Senator Byrnes's proposal of a flat 10% cut in all appropriations except fixed charges (interest on public debt, veterans' pensions, Government contracts). But on the eve of the President's departure for Texas and tarpon, Missouri's Clarence Cannon, the senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a White House visit. Returning to the Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution simply "impounding" 15% of all appropriations for fiscal 1938 and providing that "no amount so impounded and set aside shall be available...
When the President returns from placid southern waters, he may be surprised to find that the men on the Hill can be even harder to keep on the hook than the fighting tarpon. For as revenues fail and the President demands killing sums for relief, the prospects of new taxation are heightened--and at this suggestion the Congressional barometer falls. "Dependable Jimmy Byrnes" and long suffering Joe Robinson are both demanding cuts in appropriations and when these two stalwarts kick against the pricks we may expect wholesale defection in the Cherokee strip...