Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
CURTIS OPPOSED
TO EXTRA SESSION
Senator and Representative
Bacharach Against Call
Ahead of Time.

Senator Curtis, the Republican Sem
ate leader, came out today against
special session of Congress.
He said there was no occasion for
the President to call Congress together
before it's regular time for meeting in
December. The Senate commerce COM
nlittee should join the House rivers
and harbors and food control commit
tees next Fall as soon as the reports
of Army engineers are ready, he
stated, to devise a fiood-control plan.
The House ways and means commit
tee, he assumed. would also have pre-
pared by that time tax reduction leg
islation, which must originate with
the House.
Serator Curtis has just returned
from visit with his daughters in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He
said he did not contemplate visit to
the President in the Black Hills at
this time.
House Leader Also Opposed.
Representative Bachrach, Repub.
lican, of New Jersey, a leader on the
House ways and means committee,
also opposed an earlier session. He
emphasized that both the ways and
means committee, which will consider
tax reduction, and the appropriations
committee will meet under instruc-
tions early this Fall SO as to have their
recommendations ready for Congress
when it assemblies. His statement
follows:
PERSONALLY I see no need at this
time for the calling of an extra ses-
sion, for / can see nothing to be
gained by bringing Congress back be-
fore December.
Authority was granted to the ways
and means committee in the last
Congress to meet prior to the conven-
ing Of the Seventieth Congress for
the purpose of considering revenue
legislation. Already Chairman Green
has sent out a call for the committee
to meet October 81. The appropria-
tions committee has similar au-
thority to meet during the recess. and
Chairman Madden, as usual, will have
his subcommittee on the job long
before Congress meets.
Committee Ready to Report Bill.
1.-THE ways 'and means committee
will have a tax bill ready for con-
sideration by the House just as soon
as the new Congress is organized, and
since, from the statements, which l
have read eminating from both Re-
publican and Democrats, there seems
tc be a unanimity Of opinion as to
what changes will be made in the
present revenue law-the corporation
tax reduced, the remaining nuisance
taxes eliminated, and some relief in
the surtax rates covering the middle
range of brackets-we should have no
difficulty in duplicating the record of
1925 when the ways and means COM
mittee presented a revenue bill on
the second day of the session and
the House passed it 10 days there
after.
mo doubt the appropriations COM
mittee will give immediate considera-
ton to the matter of such emergency
appropriations as may be necessary
to take care of the Mississippi flood
situation and include the same in the
deficiency bill which failed in the
Senate at the last session and which
will be reenacted Immediately after
the converting of Congress. These are
the two most important matters COM
ing before the next Congress.
IF the Senate will get down to
business as promptly as the House, we
con meet upon the regular day set
for the convening Of the Seventeen
Congress and transact all important
and necessary legislation and get
away in time for the national con-
ventions."