Nogales international., 1930-11-28

ment operation OF the giant Muscle
Shoals plants in Alabama, while
the House adopted the bill of Rep
resentative Carroll Reece, Republi-
can, Tennessee, providing for pri-
vate operation. The two bills are
now deadlocked in conference be-
tween the two Houses.
The Senate passed last session
the three bills by Senator Wagner,
Democrat, N. Y, for unemployment
relief-one setting up a $3.50, 100000
fund to be used for public building
construction in times of economic
depression, second increasing the
scope of the Labor Departments
bureau of labor statistics, and a
third providing for unemployment
bureaus throughout the country.
These measures are pending in the
House.
The Norris lame duck" resolu-
ton, which has passed the Senate
four times, abolishes the short, or
lame duck" session of Congress,
such as the present one, by fixing
the time of meeting of a new Con-
gress in January after the election
in November, instead of 13 months
after as now, and also changes the
time of Inauguration of President
and Vice-President to January.
Some familiar figures will say
farewell to the House at the end
of the session, having been defeat
ed for reelection. These include
Representatives, S. Wallace Demp-
sey, Republican, NJ Y, chairman of
the rivers and Harbors committee; !;
Louis G. Cramton, Mich, ranking
Republican on the House appropria-
tions committee, and Grant M. Hud-
son, Republican, Mich, who shared
the House dry leadership; Thomas
! IA. Bell, Ca, ranking Democrat on
the post office committee. and willis
G. Sears, Republican, Nebraska.
Woman Gus
One woman who was the center
Of considerable attention will de-
par5 from The House March I, Mrs.
auoh Hanna Mccormick, Eepubli-
. can. ILL.,, who was defeated in at
tempting to become the first wo-
man member of the Senate. MIS-.
katherine Langley, Republican, KY,
also was engulfed in the Demo-
cratic Landslide in her state.
During the short session the fe-
male bloc will be larger than ever
before. Another of its members,
however, will retire at the end of
the short session, Mrs. Pearl Old
field, Democrat, Ark, who succeed
ed her late husband, but did not
stand for reelection. One woman
was added to the group by the elec-
ton, Mrs. Otis NJ. Wingo, Dem,
Ark. who was chosen for the va
cancy created by the death of her
husband.
The other women members were
reelected, Mrs. Ruth Pratt, N. Y,
Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Mass,
Mrs. Florence Kahn, Calf, Repub-
licans, Mrs. Mary T. Norton, Demo-
crat, N. j., and Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, Dem, Fla.
In addition to the appropriation
bills and the other legislation al
ready mentioned, there are a few
other legislative matters to come
before the House, and in some of
them lies the possibility of bat
tie on the floor.
One measure which will not be
on the schedule but may get shov-
ed over from the Senate would cause
q lively battle. This is the export
debenture plan of farm relief, de-
feated last year by the House afte4
Borah, Republican, Idaho, is threat
ening to bring it into the Senate
again.
a Loop Hole
Rankin and his cohorts will take
advantage Of a loop-hole in the
new law Under that measure, the
House was to be re-apportioned
next year by the Commerce De-
partment automatically on the basis
of it's present membership of 435
members, under the 1880 census
However, Congress was left the al
tentative of changing that method
! at the coming short session if it
chose. If Rankin succeeds, then the
plan provided by the law will go in
to effect. Several states will lose
seats and others will gain due to
the shift of population since the last
lreapportionment, which was in 1910.
Rankin's plan is to increase House
membership to 483 members, which
would prevent any state from los
| ing seats.