Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
Navy, Shoals, Debenture,
Tariff, Prohibition and
Others May Start Rows.
GETTING SUPPLY BILLS
PASSED CHIEF CONCERN
With Jobless Aid, They Are Ex-
pected to Need Parties CO.
operation to Become Law.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Congress, when it meets December
!, must have It's latest style @co-opera-
ton" clothes on If there is to be
avoided special session Of the Sew
enty-second Congress In the Spring.
Enough lighting" subjects are due
70 come before the Congress, In one
form or another, to swamp the three
months short session. which closes
March 1, 1891.
First. there Is the emergency pro-
gram, designed to relieve conditions of
distress this Winter, If possible,
throughout the country.
Just what this program will be is
still matter Of conjecture. President
Hoover Is expected to outline the adj
ministration's relief program In his an
nual message TO the Congress. But
there will be other programs. The in
surgent Republicans in the Senate have
already mentioned several measures
which they win demand Some of
these are measures which the adj
ministration Is likely to resist. The
Democrats are likely to have pro-
gram, too.
Navy to Be Debated.
Then there Is the Navy. There will
be o demand from many quarters that
. naval building program be initiated
which win ct least be q beginning
toward bringing the American Navy up
TO the full strength permitted under
the London treaty. The Navy Depart
ment Is credited with having fcrmu-
lated a program authorizing about
9140, 100000 for new construction and
for undermining some of the battle
ships. The President still has to APP
prove the program. II he does, the
little Navy" group in the Senate and
the House viii have their hammers out
tn batter down the program.
Muscle Shoals, with Norris of Me-
braska, the progressiyes, generally
speaking, and many OF the Democrats
ranged on the side Of Government own
ership and Oreratiun and with Presi-
dent Hoover and the administration
for private operation, present another
tough problem. The Muscle Shoals
matter Is now In the conference stage
between the two houses, the Senate
having passed the Norris bin and the
House the bin advocated by Repre-
sentative Reece Of Tennessee, supported
by the administration. Already there
have been threats from insurgent RE-
publicans to force" q special session
Of the next Congress If this Muscle
Shoals matter IS not cared for in the
short session. A presidential veto Of
the Norris bill, should 1t eventually
pass the Congress, has been promised
by Representative Reece.
Another measure which the pro-
gressives are insisting upon at the COM
ing session Il the Norris resolution
doing away with lame duck sessions
Of Congress and putting newly elected
President In the White House in Janu-
airy following his election. The Senate
has passed this resolution, proposing
2 constitutional amendment, three or
four times. It has been blocked in the
House time and again. More recently
the House voted on the resolution and
turned 1t down, the resolution failing
to receive the necessary two-thirds
vote, although II was favored by more
than Q majority Of those voting in the
House
Farm Relief Live Issue.
The farm "debenture" and repeal of
the Smoot-Hawley tariff act are other
proposals which the progressives have
Indicated they viii advance at the COM
ing short session, despite the fact that
Q presidential veto would await either
or both of them If they could be put
through both Houses Of Congress and
sent to the White House. But II these
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In the Senate they are likely TO use UP
Q considerable part Of the short session.
Prohibition, which figured so promi-
nently in the recent congressional cleo
tions, is likely TO take Its toll Of the
time Of the Congress. Congress Is
awaiting the report Of the Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission on pro-
hibition enforcement. Senator Carter
Glass Of Virginia Is one of those who
viii demand q report from the COM
mission II one Is not forthcoming
promptly. The commission may make
Recommendation and the President
may subscribe to those recommended
tons. Whatever they are, they viii
be the subject Of controversy.
The President appointed o new Tariff
Commission during the recess OF Con-
gress, headed by former Ambassador
Henry p. Fletcher, q Pennsylvania.
He Is to appoint q new full-time Water
power Commission. All of these COM
niisaioners must be confirmed by the
Senate. Under the new rule of the
Senate the debate on nominations is
conducted In open session OF the Sen
ate. These appointments are likely TO
bring about considerable debate.
There are, Of course, the ali-impor-
tant appropriation bills. which must be
put through II Congress Is TO fold It's
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