Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
CONGRESS CLEARS
UP BULK OF WORK
Program Never So Far Ad-
vanced at This Stage
of Short Session.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Sixty-ninth Congress is coming
into the stretch" without need OF
whip or spur. With almost two weeks
of the session still remaining, prac'
ticaIly all of the important and nee
essary legislation has been disposed of.
No special session of the new Con
gress for this Spring is in sight
None of the leaders, Republican or
Democratic. with special session
They plan to pack their trunks and
go home March 4.
The annual appropriation bills, with
the exception of the second deficiency
bill, have all passed both houses OF
Congress. OF the others. only the
District bill, the Navy bill and the
frs: deficiency bill have finally to
pass through the conference stage
and go TO the White House for ap-
proval. Never in the memory of Off
cials at the Capitol have the supply
bills been SO far advanced at this
stage of short session.
Danger of jam Removed
The McNary- Haugen farm relief
bill. the radio bill and the branch
banking bill are finally out of the
legislative road, threatening as they
did to jam the legislative wheels
Leaders at the Capitol expect TO have
the farm bill back on their hands
again within a few days, accompanied
by IL presidential veto. If the veto
comes it may lead to some debate
There seems no chance whatever that
the measure could pass Qyeruthe vett
of the President a two-thirds vott
in both Houses is necessary to over
ride a veto.
The leaders expect little more i'm
portant legislation To get through a
the present session. Many minor
bills will be rushed to passage, how
ever. Desperate efforts will be made
to obtain action on the bill reor-
ganizing the prohibition enforcement
in the Treasury Department. setting
up separate bureau for it. The
vets apparently have decreed how.
ever. that none of the dry measures
shall pass. If they are taken up they
will lead to debate and little else
In the Senate the Boulder Dan
bill with its promise of irrigation tC
millions of acres of arid lands il
California, Arizona and neighboring
States and tremendous power de-
velopment. is the unfinished busi-
ness.
johnson Makes Stirring Appeal.
Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali
fOrnia, sponsor of the measure in
the Senate. delivered an appeal that
was both eloquent and effective in
that body yesterday. If permitted
to come to vote it would pass
But a small group of Senators. in
Guiding Ashurst and Cameron ot Ari
zona. King and Smoot of Utah
Phipps of Colorado have their knIN.
whetted for this measure. They will
talk it to death if they can. In the
House the bill has been reported ia
vorably, but so far no special rule
has been forthcoming for its con-
sideration.
Other measures which are knock
ing at the door for consideration in
both houses are the postal rate bill
which may be sent to conference OF
to the House post office COMMITTEES,
the public buildings bill for the Dis
trict and for the States, the alien
property bill, the French spoilation
claims bill. Muscle Shoals and the
bill authorizing the Veterans Bureau u
to make loans to former service lnen
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