Evening star., 1932-12-31
Garner, Robinson, Rainey
and Others to Confer With
Him in New York Instead
OF Albany.
DISCUSSIONS TO EMBRACE
ALL LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
Budget Balancing, Economy, Taxes,
Prohibition Repeal, Farm Relief
and Beer Legislation Among
Many Problems to Be Faced.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President elect Roosevelt has
made plans to confer next Thurs
day night In New York with a
big group of Democratic leaders
Representative Rainey of Illi-
nois, the party floor leader in the
House, today made public the
date of the conference Origi-
nally it had been planned to have
the meeting in Albany, but to ac-
commodate the members of Con-
gresS, the incoming President will
go to New York to meet them,
probably at the Biltmore Hotel.
Among those who will attend
the conference are Speaker Gar
ner, the Vice President-e elect;
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the Democratic floor leader in the
Senate; Representative Rainey,
Senators Byrnes of South Carolina
and Harrison of Mississippi;
Chairman Collier of the House
Ways and Means Committee;
Chairman Byrns Of the House Ap-
preparations Committee; Repre-
sentative McDuffie of Alabama,
the Democratic whip, and prob
ably Chairman Summers of the
House Judiciary Committee.
Several other Senators are to
make the trip.
Many Phases Included.
It Is likely the conference will en-
brace a full discussion of the Demo-
cratic legislative program. including
budget balancing. economy, taxes, SUBJ
mission of repeal amendment, farm
relief and beer legislation
day after Chairman Collier plans to lay
before his committee the problem Of
finding sourceS Of revenue to balance
the budgct. Collier plans to have the
committee survey the needs of the
Treasury and it Is expected that most
of the conference will deal with revenue
measures the Democrats will seek to
enact at the short session.
Some Democrats are very anxious to
have the budget balanced during the
first year of Mr., Roosevelts admins
tration and believe that steps to that
end should be taken at this session.
The apparent opposition Of the Presi-
dent-elect to a general manufa cturers
sales tax has slowed down the move
toward it. In view of this, they are
looking to Mr.. Roosevelt for suggestions
as to what new revenue sources might
be tapped.
In addition. the leaders plan to re-
port to Mr. Roosevelt. on the progress
OF the beer bill which has passed the
House and is now pending in the
Senate. The President-elect is anxious
to have the outright repeal proposal OF
his party's platform adopted at this
session but in view of its defeat by a
narrow margin in the House progress
on this move is now largely dependent
on what action the Senate might take.
Press Farm Relief.
House DemocrGtic leaders are going
forward with their plan to bring I'D the
domestic allotment farm relief bill prob
ably lete next week. However. scme
are doubtful as to what President Hoover
will do with it If 1t Is sent to the
White House by the Senate.
Democratic proposal to give the Presl-
dent-elect blanket authority to reorgan-
ize the Government in the interest Of
economy were forecast following ap-
proval of the plan by the Senate Econ
omy Committee yesterday.
The reorganization proposal is to be
put onto the Treasury-Poct Office sup
Div bill, now pending in the Senate.
The proposition would give MI.
Roosevelt not cnly power to transfer
agencies as provided in the economy
act for President Hoover, but in addi-
ton, authority to abolish bureaus. It
requires the action OF but one branch
to reject the Hoover transfer proposals.
whereas the Democratic proposition
would make it necessary for both to act
before the Roosevelt measures could
be blocked.