Correspondence Between Senator Harry S. Truman and Judge Lewis Schwellenbach

COPY Washington, D. C. September 8, 1941 Honorable Lewis B. Schwellenbach United States District Judge Spokane, Washington Dear Lew: I certainly appreciated your note of the Third, and I can't tell you how much I appreciated the privilege of being with you and Mrs. Schwel- lenbach while I was in Spokrane. My hearings at Salt Lake City didn't materialize because Joe O'Mahoney and Murdock held a meeting of the Public Lands Committee on the Saturday before I got there and had the hearings. It would have been ridiculous for me to repeat the program on Tuesday, so I got a train and brought the folks back to Washington and got here in time to vote for the Tax Bill. I had lunch with Sherman Minton in Halsey's office and certainly made him homesick to see you. He told me that if he thought he had a chance to be elected in '44 he would resign from that job of his and run for the Senate. He wants to come back here 30 badly that I really feel sorry for him. We had a fine lunch at Senator Guffey's expense. It looks as if our Committes is making some progress, because the President has again revamped the OPM set-up, but in my opinion it is just as bad as ever, even if Henry Wallace is nominally in control of it. I am going to keep hammering away, and one of these days break loose in the Senate with the facts as they are, just as I talked them over with you, unless there is a very radical change in policy and attitude. I am glad you are happy in your new set-up, begause I sure wish you were back in the Senate, and I wish Minton were back, also. Again I want to thank you and Mrs. Schwellenbash for the high- light of my whole trip, a chance for a visit with you. Please remember me to your mother. Sincerely yours, Harry s. Truman HST/cb