Evening star., 1926-05-02
MANY MAJOR BILLS
AWAITING ACTION
Hopes of Early Adjournment
for Campaigning Are Now
Believed Faint.
BY. G. GOULD LINCOLN.

tllre lust at a time when members
OF Congress were preparing 10 pach
uD and go back home to fight fof lhelr
political lives.
OF course, Congress could Jam
through the remaining appropriation
bills and clear out of Washington bE
the middle of May. This has been the
desire of many But the question now
is whether many of thu members OF
the House and the Senate who must
stand for reelection would be, or coulo
be. reelected if such a course were
adopted.
The House is about > Tickle farm
relief legislation. The opinion eN,
pressed yesterday was that it would
take the House the better part OF TWO
weeks to dispose Of this matter. The
Senate is inclined to wait and see
what the House does before ii under
takes to tinker with the farm situa-
tion. There are those in both the
Senate and House who believe aud
some of them hope-rhe House VIII
find itself unable to reach an agree
ment on any farm bill. 1t that were
the case, then some of the senators
argue. it would be futile for the Sen
ate to undertake consideration OF Its
own farm relief bills.
Haugen Bill Comes Up First.
Reports from the House indicate
that the supporters of the HauSen
bill. with it's S375, 900 900 revolving
fund to aid in the marketing OF the
surplus staple crops, have strength
enough to prevent the passage OF the
Tincher bill. with it's $l00.000.0O0 fund
the same purp1se-the bill which has
been represented as the utmost to
which the administration will agree.
Under the present plan the Haugen
bill is to come before the House first
for consideration. After it has been
perfected in committee of the whole,
Mr.. Tincher of Kansas will have an
opportunity to offer his bill as a sub
stitute for the Haugen bill, and Rep
resentatiVe ASWell of Louisiana VIII
have the same privilege with his bill.
known as the CurtisAswell bill.
BY combination of the members
from the Middle West. the West and
the South. the Haugen bill. it is be-
lieved. commands greater strength in
the House today than the other two
measures. 1t remains to be seen if it
can emerge from the House in such
shape as will be satisfactory to its
own supporterS-includin the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation and
other farm and cooperative orSaniZa-
tionS.
Long Fight i'm Prospect.
If the Haugen bill comes to the
Senate from the House, the effort of
its friends will be to substitute it for
the bill now on the Senate calendar.
And the effort of its opponents will be
to prevent this. or at least to so
amend the Haugen bill that i; will not
be objectionable to the President. 1t
looks like a long light over farm
legislation from any point of view.
There is a growing disposition TO
act on the French debt settlement he
fore the adjournment of this session
of Congress- Senator Smoot Of Utah,
chairman of the finance committee, IN
Sists that ii should be passed before
Congress goes away. Repf 1Se ntative
Burton of Ohio is expected to intro
duce a bill ratifying the settlement to-
morrow. The House ways aid means
committee. will consider the measure
during the coming week. The question
will come up as to whether the House
should take up the hill before it is
acted on by the French Parliament.
not to meet again until the last of
May. But even so there will he ample
time for the House to take the bill
up after the French have passed On
the settlement. it was pointed out. In
the Senate there has already tcen
strong opposition manifested toward
this settlement. and there are indi-
cations it will lead to much deb6te
But Senator Smoot is confident that
the bill will be passed by a substantial
ma jority once it is taken up in the
Senate.
English Case Comes Up.
The case of Judge George W. Eng
lish, Federal district judge in Illinois.
against whom impeachment proceed
inGS have been ordered by the House,
IS to come briefly before the Senate at
2:30 O'Clock tomorrow. Judge Eng
lish will be present before the Senate.
sitting as a court. to aSkt for time to
make "a reply to the HoGse charges
brought against him. The proceed
ings tomorrow are expected to take
but a short time. After Judge Eng
lish shall have replied to the charges
the managers on the part of the
House will make their replication and
then a time will be set to try him.
There has been a suggestion that the
Senate would allow this trial to go
over until next Fall, but there Is
strong opposition td this course. on
the ground that an important case of
this kind should be disposed of
promptly.
The legislative program of the Sen
ate Republican steering committee,
outside of these important matters, is
f>,,ifI
is still the unfinished business Of the
Seuate. AMI there have been indica-
tions that unless it be amended there
would be a prolonged fight against
this measure by some of the Demo
cratic Senators. The indications were
last night, however. that with the ac-
ceptance of an amendment by Senator
Swanson of Virginia and possibly one
hy Senator Harrison of Mississippi
the bill will be allowed to pass. The
amendments proposed would specify
that when the estimates. are made for
inclusion in an appropriation bill they
must he specific as to sites and build
ings and the limit of cost of the con
tracts for sites and buildings.
Lengthy Program Awaits.
After the public buildings bill shall
have been disposed of. the next
measure on the program is the Wat
son. Parker railroad labor bill. which
already has passed the House. 1t
does away with the present railroad
labor board and sets up new ma
chiner:' for the adjustment of rail
road labor disputes. This is to be
followed by the McFadden branch
bank bill. Then come In the follow
ing order these bills: A bill to increase
the efficiency Of the air service of the
Army, farm relief legislation,
migratory bird bill, the so-called truth
in fabric bill, a bill TO refund the
Indebtedness of certain railroads and
10 reduce the rate of interest charged,
nepcion hills a hill to liheral lie the