Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-02
Many Minor Issues. However,
Doomed to Die With Final
GaveI Monday.
DEADLOCK IS BROKEN
ON RADIO MEASURE
Compromise on Dry Enforcement
Funds Also Reached. Giving
$1S,000,000 Total for Year.

Bv the Associated Press.
The principal worries over as a result
of last-minute concessions and COM
promises on major legisls ton, the
Seventieth Congress was almost ready
to close its doors today and turn out to
see the Hoover inaugural
OF course. much remained to be done.
and the fall Of the gavel on Monday
threatens TO kill many eleventh-hour
nominations and minor bills. but leaders
In weeks after the Senate and House
at the first twin night session of the
Winter reached an agreement on the
controversial proposal for an increase in
prohibition enforcement funds and
broke the deadlock on the radio bill.
Compromise on Dry Funds.
The first move toward relieving the
clOgged machinery was the compromise
on the prohibition item. The amount
finally agreed upon was $2,977,000, ex-
elusive or an additional $250.000 for a
survey OF enforcement conditions by a
commission 10 be appointed by Presi-
dent-elect Hoover. These funds we're
included in the two pending deficiency
measures, and the House last night gave
approval to the conference report on
one of these bills, which carries more
than a million dollars of the total.
The Senate must act on that report
as we'll as the conference agreement on
the first deficiency measure carrying
the balance of the appropriation. The
House will complete congressional &C
ton on this bill.
the S2.977 900 item. which brings the
total direct appropriations for the next
fiscal year for dry law enforcement to
approximately s18,000.000, the con-
ferees finally ditched the controverted
$24 100000 proposal of Senator Harris,
Democrat. Georgia. which the Senate
inserted in the first deficiency bill.
The total. however, was slightly higher
than the $2,727.000 figure recommended
by President Coolidge and which the
house approved In passing the second
deficiency bill.
In accepting the compromise. the
Georgia Senator declared it was a
distinct vindication of our position
that additional funds were necessary
for proper and adequate enforcement"
Filibusters Threaten Bills.
Filibusters last night in the Senate
threatened the measures providing for
extending the life of the Radio Com
mission as an administrative body and
for survey of route for a possible
interoceanic ship canal across Mica l.
ragua. but these finally died out end
| the bills we're approved
After Cneakin0 ctx
against the radio bill. Senator Cope
land Democrat, New York, proposed
an amendment to give the commission
new lease on life until December 81
1929. The measure then was passed
with the amendment and sent back to
the House, which had passed bill to
extend the commissions tenure until
March Is, 1880
Senator Dill. Democrat. Washington
VINO conducted one-man filibuster
against the Nicaraguan Canal measure
Thursday night and kept the Senate in
session until 2:40 am, threatened the
same thing last night when an amended
House bill came up, but rather than
see the radio bill die, he yielded and al
lowed a vote.
!. The measure: which now goes to the
President. authorizes an appropriation
of sl50,000 for an investigation of the
practicability of an Atlantic-P Pacific
waterway across Nicaragua and of plans
Tor enlargement Of the Panama Canal.
The appropriation is carried in the Sec
ond deficiency measure.
Interior Bill Still Under Fire.
With the two deficiency measures and
other controversial proposals we'll on
the way to final action. only one of the
( ii major appropriation bills passed upon
annually for running the Government
remained under a cloud. This is the
I interior bill, a dispute over which has
been hanging fire ever since the House
approved an amendment providing for
condemnation of private property in
national parks. The bill was the second
| of the big supply measures passed this
session early in December. The House
( sent 1t to conference for the third time
yesterday after disagreeing TO Senate
change sponsored by Senators Walsh
and Wheeler. Democrats, Montana
which would exempt park lands from
| condemnation when occupied by resi-
! dences. churches or hotels.
The Montana Senators insist that this
compromise be agreed to and Repre-
sentative Cramton. Republican, Michi-
gan, one of the House conferees. is
: cQidliF itlSlattIlh lUHL luS OilSlIldl I1OuSe
proposal be adopted.
/ Aside from this the Senate and House
! last night seemed in a mood to please
the galleries and did not stop with the
! smoothing out Of major differences
They plugged away at their tasks well
into the night and cleaned up much OF
/ the chaff from the fast-moving bill mill
/ Garner Nominated for Speaker.
! The House got behind schedule when
! il quit at 4:3n pm. TO permit the Demo-
| Gratis to caucus hut got going again al
o'clock and worked for three hours
Representative John Garner. of Texas
now serving his fourteenth year in the
House. was nominated by the Demo-
Gratis for Speaker in the next Congress
thus assuring him the minority leader
/ ship. as the election of a Republican n
! Speaker is conceded. House Republicans
will caucI. tomorrow. No opposition is
expected To the denomination of Repre-
/ sentative Ion2wortb Of Ohio.
| Among the nominations facing death
with Mondays adjournment are mum