Luncheon Line-Up

Having withdrawn quietly and in good order following its costly defeat in 1932, the Republican high command last week took steps to consolidate its new position preparatory to the opening of Congress Jan. 3. First digging-in occurred in the office of Oregon's Charles Linza McNary, the Senate's minority leader. Slim of body and quick of brain, Senator McNary is personally popular with all factions of the G. 0. P. To his rooms in the Senate Office Building went two rich, prominent and ambitious Republican has-beens, onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills and onetime Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge. After a morning of strategy discussions, they adjourned to Mr. Edge's house for luncheon.

There Messrs. Edge & Mills laid before other members of the Republican general staff tactical recommendations straight from the vanquished commander-in-chief at Palo Alto. On Herbert Hoover's advice, the Republican opposition decided to lie low during the early days of the Congressional session, planned not to call a party caucus until "errors of the Administration economic program" accumulate. It was hoped that dissenting Democrats would open a breach through which the Republican minority could begin a counterattack with its own legislative program, which was tentatively based on three lines:

1) Governmental economy and opposition to additional expenditures for public works.

2) Amendment of the Recovery Act to exempt from its provisions cities of less than 25,000, small businesses employing less than 100 workers.

3) Restriction of the AAA's domestic allotment plan to wheat and cotton.

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