The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
DECEMBER WILL
BRING CONGRESS
BUSY CALENDAR
Legislation TangIe Is Left
at Adjournment for
Short Session.
BY RUTH FINNEY
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. July s.-Con-
gress adjourned with much trouble
some legislation still unsettled, and
when it reconvenes next December
for ne short session, it will find
dincult tangle awaiting.
The Muscle Shoals bill still will
be in conference committee. II the
committee can not reach COM
promise at that time. the matter
viii be thrown back into the two
houses for further action. The
Wagner bill providing for advance
planning Of public works also VIII
be in conference.
The bill for federal regulation OF
motor buses will be the unfinished
business on the senate calendar, and
debate on it will be resumed at
once.
Immediately afterward 1t IS
planned to ask for consideration OF
the anti-injunction bill, reported
unfavorab1y to the senate in this
session by the judiciary committee.
Await Committee Award
The house will have before it
the Couzens proposal to prevent
consolidation Of railroads, the Nor
ris proposal, somewhat modified in
house committee, to abolish lame
duck sessions of congress, and the
problem of whether or not to re-
strict immigration from Mexico.
Action on all these measures
awaits word from the powerful rules
committee of the house.
It also will have the third of the
Wagner unemployment bills, meas
ure to establish a system Of en-
ployment agencies in cooperation
with the states.
The fate of all these measures is
endangered by the shortness of the
short session. All the annual sup
ply bills have to be passed in the
three months ending March 4, and
there is little time for other mat
tiers. 1t is easy to filibuster a bill
to death.
The senate also will be asked to
pass upon one of the Presidents
law enforcement measures left from
the long session, the bill to do away
in certain cases with jury trial. 1t
has before it also a bill to restore
the old Sheppard-Towner system of
maternity aid.
Accomplishments Varied
Although many measures we're
left uncompleted. the congress just
ended has a long record of major
accomplishments.
It passed the farm relief bill,
census and reapportionment bill,
tax reduction and the tariff bill. 1t
transferred prohibition activities to
the justice department, consolidated
all veterans agencies, made the
radio commission permanent body
and created a new federal power
commission.
1t passed the rivers and harbors
bill, S23O,0OO.O0O public buildings
bill, a S14OO0,000 war veterans hos
pitaI bill and increased the amount
to be spent annually for federal aid
highways and roads in national
parks and forests.
It increased pensions of Spanish
and Civil war veterans and their
widows, and launched a policy of
pensions for World war veterans.
Fxnenses Were Increased
1t ratified the French debt set
Element. passed several minor LIis-
on reform bills. liberalized the Ca
bic act in regard to citizenship of
married women, and established a
national institute of health.
1t passed one of the Wagner I'M
employment bills calling for collec-
ton of unemployment statistics.
1t refused to repeal the national
origins quota act early in the seS-
sion.