Arizona republican., 1920-12-08
BUSINESS PROBLEMS WILL FOLLOW ACTION
 ON APPROPRIATIONS
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

As sionai consideration of methods to aid in restoring normal business conditions appeared in the offlng tonight with the announcement that majority members of the ways and means committee would meet tomorrow te discuss a leg islatiye program with respect to com merce and industry.
 The enormous number of bills deal- ing with farming and industry, pre- sented yesterday and today, together with an apparent desire of leaders to do something for business generally, made it appear certain that congress sional attention would be turned to business problems. once the appropria- ton bills are out of the way. Leaders in the senate and house do not believe that actual enactment of any such leg islation can be accomplished during the present brief session but they are evidently agreed that the foundations should be laid through committee con- sideration for prompt action after March next.
 The ways and means committee will have before it a wide range of pro- posals for bills already dropped in the senate and house hoppers include measures providing all the way from i far-reaching tax and tariff reforms and 1 agricultural relief to aid or give pro- 1 tection to limited groups of industries 1 Some of the measures submitted l would direct congressional investiga- | tion of unemployment. Among such measures was a resolution presented today by Representative Mason, re- publican, Illinois. calling for a series oi house committee investigations and g conference of governors and fedora officials to ascertain facts and figures lon 7e.lr.@ 7re44 sons resolution set forth that there now were more than 100000 persons 1T the United States in enforced idleness | Permission to deduct income taxe! paid this year from next years assess able income was proposed as bushes;
 relief measure by Representative Ac herman, republican, New Jersey, wh, declared that the burden of taxe.
 should not be further increased by tax
 ing money already paid or to be pal,
 into the federal treasury.
 } Bills were offered in the senate il
 large numbers today with the genera
 aim of stimulating business. The pro
 gram of Senator Capper. republican Kansas, for farm relief legislation found expression in several measure
 to regulate grain exchanges, while Sen ator McCumber, republican, of Nortl Dakota, introduced bills to prohibit tn { importation for one year of grain an , , grain products and live stock and othe | food commodities, and the appointmen
 by the president of a commi sion [
 prepare for congress a general syster
 of cooperative marketing.
 Cooperative marketing also wa
 dealt with in the house bills. Mean
 of taking care of the surplus of crea
 crops and at the same time assurin
 the farmer of proper sale of his prod ucts was the stated object of a bill b
 Representative Christopherson, repub
 lican. of South Dakota. who propose to revive the United States grain cor " poration as the machinery to Landl the farm surplus.
 All of the measures dealing with re A lief for farmers were designed, thet a proponents declared, to aid the con \ sumer as well as the producer. but tn . urban members were not overloollin
 opportunities to render assistance b
 legislation where possible to the bus
 nesses of finance and manufacturin
 through changes in the federal resery act and banking laws.