Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
BY WILLIAM HARD.

IN spite OF everything SAID 10 the con-
trary by high and potent dignitarieS
from the President down, there is q
strong chance that q special session
next Spring and Summer. This Is re-
ported not on theories or wishes, but
on facts. The facts, broadly and inclu-
sively, are just two.
One. No Senator In this approaching
Winter session Of the Congress Is going
to "hlibuster" against any of the ap-
preparation bills which must be passed
In order to support the Government
during the fiscal year beginning July l
next, and thus no Senator Is going for
minute to be an "obstructionist" and
to be responsible" for obliging the
President to summon the Congress back
next Spring and Summer into legisla-
tive existence and activity on Capitol
Hill. No Senator is going to fan to
cooperate" on this Winters appropria-
ton bills. That sounds fine and smooth.
Passive Resistance Expected.
Two. Plenty Of Senators, neverthe-
less and notwithstanding, have bills and
resolutions which they believe to be of
the highest immediate constructive"
value to the country and to the world,
and these Senators are going to do
their best to get those bills and resolu-
tons adequately discussed and df posi-
ble) passed before the approaching
Winter session of the Congress is cut
short by the stroke of twelve noon on
the fourth Of next March. They viii
not talk against the appropriation
bills. They will simply stand up and
talk in favor of their own bills and
resolutions and let the remaining un-
used time Of the Senate, If any, take
care Of the appropriation bills, II It can.
Can 1t? That Is the whole question.
Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, as
these words are written, Is preparing to
voice on the radio on q Nationwide
hook-up q whole program of instant
legislative work which he says he deems
essential to the proper and prompt re-
vival Of prosperity. The Senator's
fundamental argument is. that we are
suffering from lack of buying power,
which, in turn, Is caused by too much
money going out of the national in
come to some people and not enough
money to others; and the Senator pro-
poses by certain legislative measures to
increase the buying power of labor and
OF agriculture through increasing their
share OF the proceeds Of our national
wealth.
AHbuIkeut 0tOC Aherts
His views are in substance and In es-
sence the views likewise of at least a
dozen other Senators. Most of these
other Senators are Republican insur-
gents. They can be controlled neither
by presidential announcements nor by
Democratic professions. Certain Of
themselves to unite their various legis-
lative projects into an interconnected
whole which they wiz jointly prefer
to the country and carry to the Sem
ate floor.
Among the items which are men,
toned in Senator Shipsteads speech or
which in other ways are known to have
earnest senatorial progressive" favor
are the following:
The export debenture plan of farm
relief. The enlargement Of Federal as
sistance to local employment-flnding
agencies. The establishment of an or
for emergency mployment-giving pub
lie works. The investigation of the
possibilities Of organized insurance
against unemployment. The improved
control and direction of the channels
of credit in the operation of the Federal
Reserve System. The putting on the
tariff free list of certain commodities
now dutiable; change which cannot
be made by the Tariff Commission.
The release Of the full energy of the
electric waterpower plant at Muscle
Shoals through the passage of the Nor
ris governmental operation bill in OPP
position to the Reece private operation
bill. The revision Of the eailroad-rate-
making formulas Of the transportation
law for the purpose of restoring TO the
Upper Middle West some OF the anu
ence said to have been taken away
from 1t by the Federal Government
through the construction of the Panama
Canal and the ensuing diversion Of
traf1c.
Controversy Seems Certain.
These and other measures, all con-
troversial and all conceivably productive
of prolonged debate, are taken by in
surgent sentiment to be constructive"
and applicable and helpful to the coun-
try's existing economic distresses. That
they may thereupon be pressed by the
senatorial "progressives" to the dis
advantage of the ordinary routine ap-
preparation bills Is possibility which
In truth every political person here
fully admits.
Moreover. there are regulars" who
are vitality interested in certain aspects
of the progressive" legislative ambi-
tons. Senator Wagner of New York,
regular Democrat and the author of all
Of the anti-unemploym legislation
which the ''progressives" have adopted
into their program, Is fatty saying
that he intends to further "the Wag-
ner bills" by every means in his power
and in their full original forms and that
his notion of "co-operation" in the mat
ter Is that the Hoover administration
shall caase In Illustrate them Similarly
publican. and assistant Republican
senatorial leader, saws outrightly that
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