At New York, President-Elect
Roosevelt spoke of Senator Walsh's
death as a "grevious loss to the
whole country."
In Public Eye
Springing into national promin
ence almost overnight as the prose
cutor in the Teapot Dome oil scan
dal in 1924, Senator Thomas J.
Walsh became a central figure in
a swiftly moving picture of political
events that perhaps had no coun
terpart in the history of the coun
try.
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Lame Ducks Can’t Take
All Blame in Congress
By BYRON PRICE
(Chief of Bureau, The Associated
Press, Washington.)
When the time comes finally to
clear away the debris of the de
pression, and consider political
readjustments to make future de
pressions less painful, one question
certain to arise is what to do
about Congress.
Already there Is a wide-spread
conviction that the manifest fail
ures of the present session have
not been due entirely to tempor
ary causes, but have involved
weaknesses inherent in the system.
The first impulse was to blame
everything on the “lame ducks,”
with the consoling reflection that
this would be the last “lame duck"
session and that the new amend
ment to the constitution would
make a repetition of the legislative
follies of 1932-33 impossible.
The fallacy of that is that the
figures who have loomed largest
on the stage have not been men
repudiated at the polls, but men
only recently commissioned or re
commissioned in public office.
Those in the key positions on
committees dealing with budgetary
matters, for instance, nearly all
appear more or less permanent
fixtures on Capitol Hill. Certainly
Speaker Garner can not be called
a "lame duck” nor Senator Joe
Robinson; nor, for that matter,
Huey Long nor Louis T. McFad
den.
