The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
Democratic House
 Record Best In Years
Leader Henry T. Rainey Compares Brief Session With
 COP. Congresses-Cites Majority Policies

He gives the details of the frs seventeen days of the present con gress, of which the following is , brief summary:
 Everyone of the 219 democra- tic members of the house was present on the opening day.
 John N. Garner received 218 votes for speaker, rnodestly re- training from voting for himself.
 The speaker and the officers of the house were elected on the opening day.
 Two days later the working committees Of the house were selected.
 One week later members of al standing committees were select ed.
 On December 10, three days after converting, the house pass ed a resolution permitting tenn porary entry into the United States of all alien participants in the Olympic games.
 On December 14, the house : passed bills revising the system of taxation in the District of Columbia, involving nearly $3,- 500,000.
 On December IT, congress pro- vided additional appropriations of $204,000,000 for the eVterans' Administration; also. a bill pro- viding for tax on estates in the District of Columbia to yield re- venue of about $750,000 8 year and other taxes to yield almost $4,000,000. On the same date, the house passed 8 resolution for the employment service of $120,0O0.
 On December IS. the house passed the foreign debt post ponement bill. .t
 On December 19, the house passed a federal farm loan bill. providing $100,000,00o additional capital for federal land banks: also, a bill repeating the 60-40 method of federal contribution to the District of Columbia.
 Representative Rainey cites tn, seventeen days work of the pre- vious republican congress as fol lows: 4-e
 Passage of the federal farm board bill.
 Passage of resolutions concern ing the Mediterranean fruit fly, and relief of farmers in storm and flood areas in certain states.
 Passage of a bill making a small appropriation for the ex- penses of the Marine band in attending a Veterans reunion.
 Passage of a resolution amend ing appropriations for the Naval Reserve.
 Democratic Leader Rainey joint. out that durin the seventeen days of the present democratic house that body utilized all of the spare time by making the president message a parliamentary vehicle for general rebate, by which means the debt postponement plan and other pending legislation were de. bated. This was an innovation in parliamentary procedure" he says, land it has worked excellent ly."
 MT Rainey further says:
 Passage of the debt postpone ment bill and the federal farm land bank bill through the house was made possible only by the notifications made in the bills by ways and means committee, in op. position to the wishes of the presi. dent.
 Administration measures in the future will receive that careful consider them all have democratic majorities and 1t is safe to predict that they will come out of those committees with the restrictions and notifications which the demo- cratic membership of the commit tee, will suggest"
 Concerning appropriations, MT Rainey says, it is saft to predict that every bill reported out from the appropriation committee will carry less than the estimates.
 "The policy of the democratic has been to expedite ns rapidly as passible the program of the administration" MT Rainey said. 'The violent criticisms of the president and his policies have all come from the republican side of the house."