Capitol Hill is a busy place these days and the boys are swarming and milling around with one eye cocked on the White House and the other eye centered on the folks back home. But, from the way the Congressmen have acted in the past week, there is a general tendency to take the one eye off the White House and with both eyes try to see how the home folks are acting. After all, election is only eight months off.
The veterans bonus bill, passed in the House by a vote of 295 to 125, put a number of Congressmen on the spot. General sentiment is that the bill was passed as an overture to the veterans and that down deep in their hearts most Congressmen who voted for the measure are praying that the Senate will kill it.
JEWISH CONGRESSMEN SUPPORT BONUS
Of the nine Jewish Congressmen, seven voted for the measure. These seven came from metropolitan centers. They are Representatives Sol Bloom, Emanuel Celler, Samuel Dickstein, and William I. Sirovich, all of New York; Mrs. Florence P. Kahn of San Francisco, Henry Ellenbogen of Pittsburgh and Adolph Sabath of Chicago. One New Yorker, Representative Theodore A. Peyser, voted against the bonus bill. The other Jewish member who voted against the measure was Representative Herman P. Kopplemann of Hartford.
TYDINGS PROTEST LOSING OUT
Pressure in the Senate for favorable action on the Tydings resolution, calling for a Senate protest against the persecution of Jews in Germany, has subsided to a great extent. Apparently the resolution has been pigeonholed, at least for the time being, by the Committee on Foreign Relations.
In the House there is considerable interest in the Dickstein resolution calling for a Congressional investigation of Nazi propaganda activities in the United States. Passa## of this proposal is assured as a result of the concentrated work of Representative Dickstein, sponsor of the resolution. Dickstein, by the way, is taking it for granted that he will be named chairman of the investigating committee of seven members to be appointed by the Speaker. Some Congressmen secretly believe that the results of the investigation would be more significant if Dickstein were not named to head it.
PETITIONS POUR IN
Petitions protesting the Nazi government’s treatment of Jews in Germany have been flowing into the House and Senate rather freely during the last three months. The central organization of B’nai B’rith took its master petition direct to the White House the other day. The document was delivered personally by former Senator Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, president of the organization. It was left with Marvin H. McIntyre, one of President Roosevelt’s secretaries, to be brought to the attention of President Roosevelt.
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