Evening star., 1928-12-01
CAMPAIGN PLEDGES
COMPL|CATE TASK
OF 10TH CONGRESS
Farm Relief and Tariff Revi-
sion Put on Schedule With
Many HoIdovers.
APPROPRIATION BILLS
TO GET RIGHT OF WAY
Special Session Views Varied, With
Some Favoring Delay Until
Next Fall.
BY tho Associated Press.

Returning to the Capital to pick I'D
where they left of last May, members
of hte Seventieth Congress today found
their calendar of unfinished and routine
business for the concluding short term
session beginning on Monday complicat-
ed by new demands of campaign prom
ises.
Even before the arriving congression-
al hosts could get into their desks today
to bring out old bills neglected in the
press of the last session conferences
were being called to take I'D the fate
of legislative promises born In the In
tervening national campaign, principal
ly tariff revision and farm relief
Monday afternoon, as soon as the
opening session of the House Is con-
cluded, Republican members of the
ways and means committee will meet
to consider the rnuch-discussed question
Of whether tariff revision is to be under
taken and, if so, when.
Al Will Retire March 4,
But this was not of much concern
to about 40 members of the House and
seven members of the Senate who were
defeated in the November election. They
go out March 4.
Unfinished work presents real prob
lem in the Senate, which starts OF al
most as soon as the gavel falls with
the resumption of debate on the SWING
johnson Boulder Canyon Dam bill. Be-
sides batch of executive nominations
to be acted upon, the Senate also has be-
fore it the administrations naval con-
Struct1on measure and the new kellogg
anti-war treaty.
While its leaders and committees are
studying over the prospects for farm
relief and tariff reVision-prime issues
in the campaign of President-elect Hoo
ver-the House will plunge into its
annual task of appropriating the money
to run the Government during the ap-
preaching fiscal year.
This is one of the chief tasks Of the
short session of the retiring Congress.
and leaders intend to make it the real
business of the three-fnonth term. The
House appropriations committee viii
have some work ready for considera-
ton next week, and leaders are hopeful
of acting upon three of the nine regu-
lar supply bills before Christmas. Ap-
right of way in the Senate.
Senate Has Contest.
However, the ever-preSent problem of
farm relief and the new one of tariff
revision is holding the attention of the
pre-SeSSion discussions along with q
friendly contest in the Senate as to
who is to succeed Vice President-elect
Curtis as Republican leader Of that
body.
Opinion of the Republican leaders
who have the upper hand in both
the House and the Senate has been
divided as to whether farm relief in
the form of a marketing measure
should be pressed at the short session
or left to an extra session which Mr.
Hoover has promised If the problem is
not disposed of at the short session.
Senator McNary, Republican, Oregon,
the chairman OF the Senate agricul-
tural committees has drafted new farm
marketing bill, establishing a Federal
farm board designed to cope with the
surplus crop problem. He will ask i'm
mediate action On it. He has plenty
of support, including that of Senator
Capper of Kansas.
Senators Borah, Idaho, and Brook
hart, Iowa, two of the most vigorous
campaignerS for Mr.. Hoover, want an
extra session for farm relief and want
tariff revision as well as a marketing
bill taken up then.
Republicans Are Called.
So far as the tariff revision is con-
cerned the action yesterday of Chair
man Hawley of the House ways and
means committee in calling Repub-
licanS of the committee together on
Monday for discussion of this ques-
ton may go a long way in clearing
the atmosphere.
Hawley said that the meeting would
be asked to determine whether hear
lngs would be held as the first step
toward writing a new bill. He de-
ciared that he thought a general re-
vision bill could be put through as
quickly as an emergency measure de-
signed to aid agriculture. Representa-
tive Hawley explained that in calling
on Republican members of his COM
mittee he had only followed precedent
set by the Democrats when they de-
cided to write the Underwood bill, and
one followed later by the Republicans.
If there is to be an extra session.
and only the far away President-elect,
who comes into Office on next March
4, can decide that-opinion is divided
as to when it should be held Speaker
Longworth of the House and Senator
Watson Of Indiana. prospective Sen =
ate leader, say next Fall. Representa-
tive Tilson of Connecticut, the Repub-
lican leader Of the House, and Senator
Smoot Of Utah, the chairman Of the
powerful Senate finance committee, say
right away, that is, next Spring when
the new Congress comes into once.
Inquiries Are Pending.
Meanwhile the Senate has some IN
vestigations pending. The elections
subcommittee considering the contest 81
William B. Wilson, Democrat, against
Senator -elect william S. Ware of Penn
Sylvania Is meeting today to decide
on its course. Investigators of the Sen-
ate public lands committee who IN
qulred into the leases Of the Salt Greek
oil fields in Wyoming are preparing
q report for that committee. The cam
paign expenditures committee e ready
to resume its inquiry which carried
only up to the national convenfionr
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Of Montana
IS demanding early action on his resn.
luton for an investigation Of the Cow
attitude toward the moving
picture industry.
Ine mouse campaign expenditures
committees has been at work for some
line inquiring into charges of frrepu.
arltles IN the presidential election in
southern Texas counties and also into
,hargeS brought again at the primary
contest won by Representative John
iarner OF the fifteenth Texas con.