The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-12-22
KVALE BELIEVES
SPECIAL SESSION IS
LIKELY, ADVISABLE
Sees Presidential Veto Probable
on Measures Now Before
House, Senate
BY John Paul Kvale

Farmer-Laborite of Benson in the
old +" : seventh district, is offered
Gazette readers weekly. Mr.. Kvale
reviews the work and prospects of
accompl ;shments in congress. HIS
opinions as expressed from time to
time may or may not agree with the
editorial policies of The Gazette.
While. no definite assertions of
leaders can be pointed to N proof,
there is increasing reason daily to
believe that powerful leaders of con-
sentative leanings in both major par
ties are joined in quiet and strong
combination to do what they can to
avoid a special session of the incom-
ing congress after March 4.
1t is difficult to understand how
they can hope to avoid it. Even
though the evident purpose to press
all appropriations measures through
the house as speedily as possible and
with minimum of debate is success
full, they must still be acted upon in
the senate before adjournment auto
matically comes on March 4, in Or
der to avoid necessity for the extra
session. And in that body there are
warnings of stormy and tedious de-
bate upon at least three subjects IN
addition to the present discussion of
the Philippine independence bill. These
are the banking revision bill, farm
relief and emergency relief legisla-
ton. That is more than enough to
snarl any carefully laid program for
advancement of appropriations, II
any group should become obdurate
and start an organized filibuster.
AS for the House plans, leaders
seem to feel that they can rush
through the supply bills that are the
annual responsibility of congress
over toward all government activi-
ties, pass a farm bill, beer bill and
maybe a tax biQl, then adjourn. To
that end they are endeavoring to re-
strict the general debate which al
ways precedes consideration of ap-
preparation bills and which is for the
members of any matters of general
interest. They plan if possible to dis
pense with the Saturday recesses and
even with the holidays recess.
Time will have to decide the wis
dom of their strategy. And time will
also have to pass upon the justltica-
tion-or lack of it-for their fear
that members-elect of the seventy
tn I'd congress ii permitted to come
together soon after the campaign and
election will not legislate wisely. For
it seems more and more certain that
the present lame duck congress will
expire without having disposed of
even one OF the staggering problems
that face it, and possibly without
having performed routine Legislative
duties.
Meanwhile, the groups who are
strenuously advocating the bills re-
ferred to are continuing their efforts
in the face of almost certain presi-
Dental veto if they bring their meas
ures that far along legislative path
ways, Thus, the bill to legalize and
to tax beer, while favored to pass the
House, faces some uncertainty in the
cenate and still more at the White
House. If it fails, an effort to re-
vive the sales tax, sponsored enthu-
siastically by the president, his secre-
tary of the treasury and all his pow
. erful advisors in and out of con-
gress, would have much brighter
prospects of success. Farm relief
legislation is also said to await the
presidential axe if and when it gets
that far, particularly if it is shown
to be the measure formulated by the
Roosevelt advisory group.
Such, however, is happily not a
certainty, and some farm leaders pro-
TESS to believe that inasmuch as there
is unanimity on the part of econom-
lists and farm groups in support OF
the modified allotment plan agreed
upon, strategy Of the present ad-
ministration may be t. ner.ait it to
pass through congros y
prevail of the RepuDA>aa
and thus permit that party
a stable share of the creoit
enactment and consequent ear
ton to the coming years crop
the staples included under ou -.
of the bill.
Efforts will be made to see that
whatever the form of relief, it will
go directly to the producers, and will
not be merely disguised benefit to
professors Of the commodities or to
middlemen or investors. And an i'm
portant step has been taken when the
informal conferences and meeting
have resulted in agreement among
leaders, when confusion might easily
have resulted.
4
When the final vote was taken on
the first supply bill carrying the an
nual appropriations for the treasury
and postoffice departments. approval