Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
CONGRESS FACING
10 BILLS TO AVOID
MEETING IN SPRING
Borah Suggests Salaries of
Extra Session Foes Be
Given to Hungry.
IMMEDIATE PASSAGE
OF DROUGHT LOAN SEEN
Bus Regulation, Muscle Shoals,
Labor Injunction and Short
Week Projects Coming Up.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
Administration leaders in the Senate
| faced today tile problem of getting some
Is pieces of legislation through the mill
to prevent an extra session.
A scant eight weeks remain to Con-
gress after it gets back to the grind
next Monday, and if the dread DOGGY of
an early meeting of the new Congress is
to be dispelled IL appropriation bills
must be passed.
Four or more other measures either
are viewed as essential or have been ad-
vanced at the price of any cooperation,
or even absence of resistance, from those
Senators who are not convinced an
extra session would do harm.
Borah Suggests Salary Return.
The worry of the leadership lay, how
ever, in the direction of speeches. Sem
ate talk must be shut off with ease.
Senator Watson, the Republican leader,
put his groups problem thus:
1T is the consensus of most members
of Congress and of the entire business
world so far as is ascertainable that an
extra session is to be avoided except in
case of extreme emergency. This emer-
gency will not exist, believe, if mem
bers will forego speeches on extraneous
matters and conflne debate to the prob
lens confronting u.s."
For one, Senator Borah of Idaho, a
leader of the Republican independents,
did not agree with him.
This talk about Congress disturbing
business or that a session of Congress
would be an unmixed evil is an effort
to assign patriotic excuse for going
home or going to Europe" he said
"% I suggest they turn their SAL
aries over to the hungry until they get
back.
Extra Session Prospect Calamity"
There is plenty of legislation that
ought to be had. We all know perfectly
well there is important legislation, not
to hurt business, but to help business. +"
The word calamity" has been ap-
Piled to the prospect of an extra SEES
| sion by Senator Reed, Republican,
Pennsylvania. Democratic leaders in
general have said they believe a ses-
sion OF the new Congress should not be
forced by delays at the present term.
Before the Christmas recess the Sen
ate passed virtually nothing but the
emergency relief program. Not a single
one of the supply bills got through, al
though the House passed three. To
complete the relief program the $45,-
100000 appropriation for the drought
loans must be passed, but little trouble
is expected there.
Many Bills Being Urged.
Other measures which the leaders
now expect will come up include bills
70 regulate motor bus lines, to grant
Federa! employees the 44-hour week, to
curo the use of injunctions in labor
disputes, as well as the Muscle Shoals
resolution, which is still in conference
| WIN the House. The Western indie
penoentS and some of the Democrats
want other legislation considered also.
Inc administration program is to be
mace up definitely as soon as the mem
oers OF the Steering Committee can be
assembled. Its chairman, Senator Goff
OF west Virginia, and the assistant Re-
publican leader, McNary of oregon, al
ready nave conferred with Watson on
cision.
A House subcommittee Yesterday
n e Secretary Hyde contend that the
S25,OOO,OO0 originally recommended bv
the administration would supply de-
mands for seed, feed and fertilizer
loans; but, nevertheless, he favored the
full authorized amount of $45, 100000
Passing of Bill Predicted.
What is the use of prolonging the
f1ght?" Hyde said in explanation of his
| position. IF our estimates are wrong
and we need more than $4,000, OOO It
will be ready and we will use it."
| Chairman Wood said the full COM
mittee would approve the loan fund
next Monday, and it probably would
| pass the House that afternoon.
Meanwhile President Hoover's Emer-
gency Employment Committee reported
a Nationwide canvass showed $780,
100000 of public and semi-public con-
struction ready to start within a few
months. The survey was made by
Franklin T. Miller, head of the COM
mittee's public works section, who
based his estimate on specific projects
aggregating more than $4,000, 900 900.
up to the first of this week we have
received reports on $1,853, 733, 900 of
public construction, so our reports are
coming in at the rate of approximately
S80,000,000 day." Miller said. Hence
we have pretty accurate idea today of
the status of more than 40 per cent of
the public and semi-public construction
for next year"