WASHINGTON, May 8 (AP) —
President Hoover's message criticising Congress was denounced today in the house as a "deliberately conived political maneuver" by Representative Bankhead (D., Ala.)
He said that by resorting to the old political strategy to play the administration against the legislative branch of the government, "the president is attempting to play a last trump card to invoke that belief" that the executive branch was more popular with the people than congress.
"His administration In public esteem has been driven against the wall," Bankhead said, adding that the president by issuing the rebuke to congress had shown "'gross abuse of the power on the part of the executive."
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