Down beside President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors. Dr. Morgan just wanted to be sure that the President would not stand for the constrictive changes which the House Military Affairs Committee made in his TV Amendments. Mr. Roosevelt just wanted to ask whether Dr. Morgan would take care of 18-year-old Son John Roosevelt for the summer, give him an unpaid job doing TVA "field surveys." They had no disagreement about obliging each other.
¶ Having celebrated the conclusion of Congress' sixth month in session by asking it to forbid suits against the Government on gold clause bonds and changing signals on his tax plans the President finally gave Congress unofficial assurance that he would have no more legislative proposals to send to the Capitol this session.
¶ All in the day's work, President Roosevelt squiggled his signature to the Naval Appropriation Bill providing $460,000,-ooo, of which $20,690,000 will go into new fighting ships.
¶ To the Press Franklin Roosevelt announced that he would sign a bill passed by Congress repealing a law which forbids any bar in the District of Columbia to be erected where its patrons can see the mixing of their drinks. It would, thought the President, be a good idea to let customers see the bottles so that they can be sure Federal tax labels are attached.
¶ The President nominated Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines to the post of High Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth when that job comes into existence about Nov. 15. In Manila, Filipinos announced that when they take Malacanan Palace away from Governor Murphy for the use of their new President they will give the U. S. a site on which to build its High Commissioner a home.
¶ Scrawling his signature on a stack of bills, Franklin Roosevelt came to one, signed, passed on without ceremony to the next and the next. The bill in question appropriated $10,000 for the preparation of a site and authorized the erection at private expense of a monument to Grover Cleveland, a Democratic President who, in an earlier depression, vetoed every bill he thought was unconstitutional, fought bitterly with Congress to maintain the gold dollar, and declared that "though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people." ¶ The Treasury presented the President with figures on New Deal operations for fiscal 1935, concluded last week:
Income—$3,785,000,000
Outgo—$7,257,000,000
Deficit—$3,472,000,000
The deficit was $409,000,000 smaller than in 1934 because revenues increased $697,000,000 and the New Deal had been unable to spend money as fast as it thought it could.