Evening star., 1927-12-05
Raise i'm Fireman Pay.

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Raise i'm Fireman Pay.
BY Representative Blanton of Texas
| to increase the pay OF the officers and
members of the Fire Department and
| Of the Metropolitan Police Depart
mant of the District of Columbia.
BY Representative Gallavin of Mas
sacnuset,s, to provide for the con
struction of a stadium in Potomac
| Park, District of Columbia.
BY Representative Lehlbach Of New
Jersey, to amend the classification act
of 1923.
BY Representative Elliott of In
diana, authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury to acquire the so-called tri
| angle south of Pennsylvania avenue
| to the Mall, in the District Of Colum-
bia, to be used as sites for public
buildings.
Thousands Of Bills Ready.
Solutions for all the major prob
! lens confronting the Seventieth Con-
gress are proposed in the avalanche
of bills which will descend upon the
two Houses Immediately upon com.
| pletion of their organization.
|
| measures, most of which never will
| see the light of legal life, and hun
| dreds of which will die in committee
rooms without even the dignity Of
| an official funeral.
More than 5000 House measures al
ready have been printed and most of
them are in the hands of William Ty-
ler Page, clerk of the House, ready
for immediate introduction.
Included in this batch were several
measures of outstanding Importance
the new $236.000,000 tax reduction
measure and a deficiency appropria-
ton bill drafted to replace the supply
measure that was lost in the Senate
flibuster at the close Of the last ses-
sion.
Both have been prepared by House
committees during recent weeks and
will constitute the first fuel for the
legislative machinery.
Among other problems that the new
Congress will be called upon to wres-
tie with at it's first session will be:
Farm relief, flood control, prohibition,
alien property, Boulder Canyon Dam,
Muscle Shoals, railroad consolidation,
a cruiser building program, aviation,
a permanent shipping policy, Army
housing and public buildings.
Conferences to Decide.
Despite the large number Of pro-
posals that will be offered for dispos-
decision on each of them will come
not through documents dumped into
the House and Senate hoppers, but
through continuing conferences dur
ing the session between the contend
ing forces.
In addition to the problems that will
be called to the attention OF both
houses in bill form, many matters at.
fecting the various governmental ac-
tivities will be cared for in the batch
of annual supply measures, some of
which already have been partly COM
pleted by the House appropriations
committee.
While there appears little likelihood
that any radical legislation on the
subject will be enacted at the coming
session, prohibition again will stand
out among the political issues to come
in for frequent discussion during this
pre- presidential campaign period.
Both vets and drys are ready with
measures embodying their views. the
former renewing their suggestions for
modification of the VoIstead act and a
referendum on the eighteenth amend
ment, and the latter seeking to put
even more teeth into the dry enforce
ment act.
Inherited From Last Session.
Aside from the single problem of
flood control, every one of the prime
questions before the Seventieth Con-
gress> was inherited from it's predeces-
sors. Because Of this determined
effort will be made to dispose of a
number of the rapidly aging legacies.
OF this group those apparently hav.
| ing the best chances of becoming laws
are the bills dealing with farm relief,
Muscle Shoals, alien property, a
| cruiser building program, public build.
| ings and Army housing.
Proponents of the Boulder Canyon
Dam bill also will wage with renewed
vigor their fight for enactment of the
! measure, but this proposal undoubt-
edly will meet stiff opposition as long
as the seven Colorado River basin
| States fail to reach a unanimous
agreement on the subject.
While committees must begin work
| on most of the major problems be-
fore they reach the floor of the
| House, considerable progress already
has been made on two of the big
issues-taxes and flood relief.
The tax measure, proposing a
reduction of slightly more than
| s10,000,000 above the $225,000,0 ,00O
| maximum set by the Treasury. is
practically ready for immediate con-
| sideration. 1t is the plan of Chair
man Green of the House ways and
means committee to introduce a
| e. 1f fny
| AS the committee already has agreed
| bill will be ready for consideration by
the House as soon as formally ap
proved.
Flood Headway Made.
Much headway has been made by
the House flood control committee on
the flood problem. For several weeks
the committee has obtained the views
and suggestions of a number of per
sons and it is expected that the draft
ing of control program will be start
ed as soon as the recommendations OF
the Army engineers are presented tt
| Congress.
A farm relief bill is as yet in ar
embryonic stage. While a number Of
the farm leaders in Congress have
declared they again will seek passag gt
of the McNary- -Haugen bill, which
President Coolidge vetoed last session
it is expected that the agriculture com
mittees of both houses will hold &
series of meetings to decide what i!
to be done.
Tradition Broken
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