Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1936, Page 7

GARNER 1S SILENT ON CONGRESS PLAN Says He Did Not Campaign Because He Feared Loss of Votes. Vice President Garner is in Wash- fngton today for the first time since bis re-election. Although the Vice President would make no prediction whatever regard- ing the program for the coming ses- sion of Congress, he said he had told Chairman Farley of the Democratic National Committee to “claim every SBtate in the Union except Vermont and Maine” five days before the elec- tion. With a twinkle in his eye the Vice President added “I thought we would lose Michigan and New Hampshire. Michigan was the most uncertain Btate in the Union.” Garner was asked why he didn't get into the campaign—he made only one speech. “Why should I?” he replied with & ehuckle. “I honestly believe that Col. Knox, the Republican vice presi= dential candidate, lost votes for his ticket. Why should I have done the same thing?” Col. Knox campaigned constantly, speaking from coast to coast. The Vice President said he thought Knox had made too many out-and-out &s- saults on the President. “That kind of thing does not sit s0 well with the people today.” he said. The Vice President, who is busy thinking out some way to make his own inauguration as simple as pos- sible, suggested that it might be pos- sible for him to go into the Senate chamber after the electoral vote has been canvassed and take the oath of office without any fuss and feathers. However, he was elected to serve until the end of the presidential and vice presidential terms of office. In view of that fact. he may find it nec- essary to take the oath of office on January 20, the same day that Presi- dent Roosevelt will be inaugurated for his second term. There has been some discussion of 8 change in the old inauguration plans so Mr. Garner will take the oath of office on the platform outside the Capitol, where the President will | take his. It is understood, however, that the Vice President would prefer to stick to the old plan. which calls for the inauguration of the Vice President in the Senate chamber im- mediately before the sworn in on the east front of the Capitol. Garner, who is looking hale and hearty, probably will remain in Wash- ington from now until Congress opens. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was one of his early callers this morning. The Vice President said that never before had he seen conditions so good as they are now in Texas. Under| guch circumstances, he said, it may be expected that a good many people from the Lone Star State will come to Washington for the inauguration. POLICE PROBE DEATH OF MAN SHOT IN TUB Body Also Bears Chest Injury and No Motive Found for Suicide. By the Associated Press, FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Decem- | ber 1.—Police are conducting an in- vestigation today to establish circum- stances of the death of George Carter, 29-year-old local painter, who was found dead in the bath tub of the apartment in which he lived at 2:30 ' o'clock this morning with a bullet wound in the head. A .22 caliber rifle with one shell fired from it lay across his lap. The body also bore an injury in the chest. Landon Bolling, with whom Carter lived, said he was awakened by the report of & gun in the bath room and found Carter had slumped across the tub, a rifle in his hands. He was dead when a physician arrived. Bolling said Carter was asleep when he retired about 1 o'clock. Police have found no motive which nmld lead Carter to take his own ife. President s | Garners Uvalde, Tex. Garner (Continued From First Page.) Texas; Montague, Virginia: Sumners, Texas, and Vinson, Georgia. One of Ravburn's big handicaps is that the South, and especially Texas, already have monopolized the Speak- ership and chairmanship of most of the important committees. O'Connor, on the other hand. is chairman of the Rules Committee and logically in line for the leadership. as he has had the | necessary experience in through highly controversial ures in the New Deal program under extremely difficult - conditions. He is | heir apparent to the office as acting | leader in the present Congress. Bloom Backs 0'Connor. Representative Bloom of New York, one of the outstanding sponsors of the O'Connor campaign, emphasized io- | day that the reports insinuating that the administration was “thumbs down" on O'Connor because he had been luke-warm in support of New Deal legislation did not: coincide with the facts. “Why, O'Connor handled all of tae New Deal measures on the floor—and | even begged votes in his Rules Com- mittee to get them into the House for consideration,” Bloom said. “O’Conner wasn't at all like-warm, he suj the New Deal all the way through, and even went against the wishes of his constituents to support the President.” Supporters of O'Connor have bean irritated by some newspaper articles | commenting on the leadership and | O'Connor himself, today sent the fol- lowing letter to Jay Franklin, author of a syndicated article appearing in The Star. The letter follows, in part: “Your article in The Evening Star of November 26, was certainly a corker. putting “For your information there is no | contest for the Speakership of the House. The distinguished Representa- tive from Alabama, the Hon. William B. Bankhead, will be elected Speaker without opposition. This is as it should be because he is outstandingly entitled to the position. Sees Franklin Confused. ’ “You must have been confused about | the contest. For your information, | your article might have pertained to | the majority leadership for which it The Family Shoe Store 63 Years Ago Footwear From The Family Shoe Store SOLVE the gift-list problem by a visit to the Family Shoe Store. Every Christmas for the past sixty-three (63) years this shoe store has meas- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1936. Return to Capital Five weeks ahead of the opening of Congress, Vice President and Mrs. Garner arrived here last night from their home in —Harris-Ewing Photo. has been said I am a candidate, hav- ing acted in that position for a con- siderable portion of the last Con- gress. I gather from your remarks that you wish to convey the impres- sion that I am not in sympathy with the New Deal. If you were familiar with the proceedings on the ‘Hill’ you would know that every single, solitary piece of New Deal hflfllflm came through the Rules,Committee, of which I am chairman, and practically every item of that legislation was brought on the floor personally by me, and none was left pending in the committee. 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Cites Hopson Incident. “You say ‘it was O'Connor who hid Mr. Hopson in his office’ Of course, this is libelous, but we will pass it by for the moment. If you had known the facts, you would have written ‘that I seized Mr. Hopson when the Senate committee was unable to locate him,’ and you would have had only to read my report on the gentleman, copy of which I inclose herewith, which would indicate my attitude toward him. 1 I had my way he would have been in the prison settlement in my district to which you so inadvertently refer. “You also refer to my brother re- ceiving a retainer from the Associated Gas & Electric Co. You could have found out that long before any hold- ing company bill was introduced, my brother, as it later developed unknown to me, had, among a score or more of other attorneys, been retained in bankruptcy proceedings against that company and in no connection with any holding company bill. 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