New Britain herald., 1930-07-07
MORE THAN 500 NEW LAWS

MORE THAN 800 NEW LAWS
 Tn. list Congress has placed nor. than 500 new laws upon the federal statute books, some of them important and others scarcely caus- in. 8 ripple on the rivers Of discus sion.
 The first tspeciaD session ot the Fist Congress, summoned to con- sider farm relief and tariff legisla- ton, met On April IS, 1929, recessed for two months during the summer, and adjourned on November 22, 1929. The second tfirst regular) session began Decemb mber 2, 1929, and has ceased functioning this month. But President Hoover, dissatisfied with the slovnes. Of the Senate in ratifying the London Treaty, has called the upper house into special session, so that senators must re- main in Washington, battle the pos sibly high temperature, and get the treaty out of the way before they can 20 vacationing.
 The most important of the new law. passed are chronicled as fol- lows:
 During the two sessions more than 500 new laws were placed upon the statute books. The most i'm portant of these were the Hawley- Smoot tariff. the agricultural marketing act, and the censu. and reapportionment act, Secondary measures provided for temporary tax reduction, expansion of the fel- eral highway, public building, and inland waterway programs; ratifi- cation of the French debt agree ment; reorganization Of the Federal Power Commission; continued exist ence Of the Federal Radio Com mission; consolidation of veterans agencies; transfer of the prohibition bureau; partial compliance with the Presidents law enforcement legislation program, sundry changes in regulatory legislation affecting agriculture; liberalization Of veteran relief legislation, and the annual de- partmental appropriation bills for the fiscal year 1930-31 More than nine-tenths of the legislation enact ed-as m all recent Congresses consisted of bridge bills and other minor administrative changes or authorizations.
 In addition to failure to ratlfy the London treaty. which is holding Up senatorial vacations, there were quite a number of other measures which failed of passage; some Of these have, have from time 10 time, elicited much spilling of ink in the public prints. Among these are list ed the following important measures:
 The Norris lame duck amendment the Couzens resolution to suspend railroad cancellations, sundry spe- clal bills 10 assist agriculture, the Parker motor bus regulation bill, general revision Of the copyright laws, the Muscle Shoals bill which remains Tn conference, railroad con- solidations, creation Of q Communl- cations commission, regulation Of interstate power transmission, re- vision of national banking legisla- ton, limitation of injunctions in in- dustrial disputes, Philippine inde- pendence, and modification of the antitrust laws to permit resale price maintenance contracts.
 Of five vetoes by the President, ~ one-providins for more liberal pen sions for Spanish h-American war vet erans-was repassed over his veto The House upheld the veto Of the World War veterans bill, which adopted a substitute bill
 It will be gratifying to many that Congress at this session showed d disposition to object to the creation of new executive commissions; even the law enforcement commission one of the Presidents most beloved commissions, precipitated long struggle over it's continuance and finally with | refusal to provide the funds required.
 The thoughtful person, analyzing the work attempted by Congress and com paring 1t with the final achieve ments, cannot help concluding that it requires an ocean of words and effort to achieve results. One is re- minded of the critical estimate that Congress is pretty much Of a de- batting society. But its slow motion