Evening star., 1926-12-04
MANY MAJOR BILLS
FACING CONGRESS
Big Issues Are Added to
Usual Appropriation Meas
ureS on Heavy Calendar.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The last week of the congressional
recess winds up with enough WORK IL
sight to keep the short session, which
begins Monday, busy from the firsi
day until the SiXty-ninth Congress
expires March 4.
In addition to action on the annual
crop of bills to provide funds for the
various executive departments and
agencies, a big job in itself, the House
will be confronted with prohibition
radio, taxation, alien property. Muscle
Shoals and farm relief proposals, along
with the usual deluge Of minor bills
Many, If not all, of the major bills
Will reach the Senate at one stage or
another of the session. and it already
has a number of international prob
lens to face, election contests In
prospect and, like the House, a heavy
sheaf Of measures having only local
or regional significance. Beginning
without delay, it also will have to
consider nominations from President
Coolidge TO fill more than 1000 ap-
pointive Offices.
Prohibition Is Prominent.
To ameliorate tho situation some
what the staff that takes care OF the
Capitol has not been kept in ignor-
ance Of the impending session, so
everything is shipshape in the big
building on the handicapped hill. When
members of the House take time to
get a bite to eat, for instance, they
will even find new plated table silver
in their own restaurant, and the
news correspondents who sit in at the
goings on will have fine, fancy new
green carpet to ease the passage OF
their feet to and from their seats in
the press gallery.
While plans to get quick action
on legislation to bring order into the
radio broadcasting situation are be-
ing pressed on both sides of the
Capitol and preparations are going
forward to expedite action on the
alien property bill. members who are
prominently identified with one side
or the other on the prohibition ques-
tion are making ready for a resump-
ton of the heated debates which that
issue provided at the last session.
Assistant Secretary Andrews pro-
posal for the manufacture under Gov
ernment control of 100000 gallons
of whisky already has the indorse-
ment of two leading drys of the
House, Representatives Cramton and
Hudson, Republicans, Of Michigan,
and apparently has aroused little or
no antagonism in the wet camp. The
NclS, however, nave IIdue pldUS IO
do everything in their power to block
all legislation to tighten the prohibi-
ton law and are preparing to concen-
trate on a unified program for modi-
fication.
Plans Flood Control Bill.
Little attention apparently is being
given the taxation question in the
eleventh hour pre-session confer
ences. although the opinion seems to
be spreading that nothing will be ac-
romplished at the session either in
the way of enacting the administra-
tons tax credit proposal or the
Democratic project for permanent
downward revision of the rates in the
present law.
Among the bills the House will be
called upon to consider, in addition
to those already listed on the tenta-
tive program worked out by the party
leaders, is a measure which Repre-
sentative Rainey, Democrat, Illinois,
intends to press, calling for an annual
appropriation of $2,000,000 to provide
for flood control work on the Des
PLANES River in Illinois under the di-
rection of the Mississippi River COM
mission Twelve of the Is members
of the flood control committee and 18
OF the 23 rivers and harbors commit
teemen, he has announced, have as
sured him they would support the
measure.