New Britain herald., 1927-03-02
CLOSING MOMENTS
 TERRIBLY TANGLED
Congress Almost Hopelessly
 Muddled by Fights

Washington, March P}-The al-
 most unprecedented parliamentary tangle in the senate. untwisted for d time when cloture was clamped on the prohibition reorganization bill, has been filibustered back into q still greater state Of confusion and promises to remain so until ad- iournment on Friday.
 The house entirely free Of leg isative jam and working in unusual decorum for pre-adj djournment activ- ity, Is making matters worse for the senate by passing more Legislation than the latter can hope to dispose of in the two and half days remain ing this session.
 Further night sessions are in store for the senate. which last night cleared It's calendar considerably by approving 13O bills and resolutions. only one, that providing money to elevate the guns on the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada, was of ma ior importance, but the house ada ed one to the senate's bill slate by passing the medicinal ~hlskey bill 200 ot 151.
 The senate moved toward a vote today on the bill to establish sepa- rate bureaus of prohibition and GUS toms in the treasury, which is snll the unfinished business.
 Once this measure is out Of the al fc rrpy,icpd hp. cause of the announced intention of Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri. 10 call up his resolution extending the life of his special campaign funds investigating committee through the summer recess.
 Senators Reed, of Pennsylvania, and Moses, of New Hampshire, re- publican. who began a filibusteT against the resolution yesterday, only to be halted by an agreement to take up the dry bill. intended to carry forward their delaying tactics. Their action has given rise to warn inGs from both sides of the cham ber that all legislation would be clocked until adjournment.
 The Missouri senator had planned to call up his resolution today. If action was not obtained. he said he would ask an all-night session.
 Colorado river control legislation is dead for this session. In view Of the house steering committees ac- lion in refusing to give the bill to dam tho river at Boulder Canyon the right of way unless it was pass "d upon in the senate, where a vote for cloturc on the prohibition reor- sanization bill has displaced it.
 Another bill bearing on the same subject. is in conference owing to the house action yesterday in ap- proving. with amendments. a bill previously passed by the senate to prohibit the issuance of power li- censes or permits on the Colorado river compact.
 Another measure apparently doom for this session is the alien property return measure. Senator Reed. Of Pennsylvania. tried valient- ly three times last night 10 obtain consent to take it up at a night session tonight. Objection vas raised each time.
 Radio Control Fight
 Enforcement of the radio control measure has been threatened as a result of opposition developing against three of the five nominees | for the radio commission sent to the . senate yesterday by President Cool , idge. Senator Dill, democrat. Wash i ington, author of a bill which form . ed the basis of the legislation. said . he would fight confirmation Of Henry 4. Bellows of Minnea polls: John F. Dillon. of San Francisco, and Orestes H. Caldwell of Bronx vile. N. Y.. on the ground that they were under the influence of Secre- 'ary Hoover. In drafting his bill Dill challenged Hoover's authority over radio.
 Out of the experimentation of con- gressional activity yesterday came a on postal rates revision. senate and house conferees agreeing 10 restore the 1921 second class charges, to retain the 2-cent service charge on parcel post packages in the first. second and third zones,