Evening star., 1932-11-18
HOOVER CONSULTS
FULL CABINET ON
DEBTS QUESTION
Conference Is Preliminary to
Discussions With Roose-
welt Tuesday.
LEGISLATORS CALLED
FOR FOLLOWING DAY
Members of Senate Finance and
House Ways and Means Com
mittees Summoned.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
Gathering his full cabinet around him
for the first time in months, President
Hoover today gave consideration to wal
debt and domestic problems as a prelude
to his conferences next week with Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt and congressional
leaders.
One or more members Of the off1cial
family have been absent from cabinet
sessions since Midsummer for campaign
or other reasons, but all answered the
call today in the face of what Mr.
Hoover has termed a pending "worlc
problem of major Importance to this
Nation"
Requests of foreign debtors for
moratorium extension and review oi
the debt field received cabinet attention
along with the gigantic task Of pairing
Federal expenditures down to the leve
of receipts.
AS they arrived at the White House
members were informed that the Presl-
dent in an historic telephone converse
ton with his successor-elect yesterday
had arranged to meet him shortly after
$50 pm. next Tuesday in the executive
Offices to discuss debt and allied PROB
lens.
Legislators Summoned.
They were informed, also, that the
Chief Executive has summoned three
Republican and three Democratic mem
bers each of the Senate Finance Com
mittee and the House Ways and Means
Committee to sit with him the following
day to discuss debt matters.
Meanwhile, at Albany, Gov. RooSe-
welt called in one of his campaign ad-
visers, Prof Raymond Moley OF Column
bia University, who viii be with him at
the White House discussion.
Before the Tuesday meeting, PreSi-
dent Hoover viii talk the situation over
anew with Secretary Of the Treasury
Mills, whom be has designated TO take
part in the discussions. Under present
arrangsmefiEs, these four win be the
only ones at the conference.
The next day the Chief Executive
viii confer with the Senate and House
leaders on financial matters. What he
tells them viii probably depend upon
the result of the conversations with the
man who is to take his place after
March A.
These plans were announced by the
White House yesterday after the tele-
phone conversation between Mr.. Hoover
! and Mr.. Roosevelt, and during a series
Of conferences in budget matters be-
tween the President and such aides as
Secretary of War Hurley, Postmaster
General Brown and Budget Director
Roop.
Move Not Surprising.
The summoning of congressional lead
ers into a White House debt parley did
not come as a complete surprise in Of
1icial Washington. It was known that
Mr.. Hoover recognized that debt action
In the final analysis would rest on Cap
itol Hill, and he had SO informed. the
President pointing out the inf1u-
enee he might have with Democratic
members looking to him as leader. Mr..
Roosevelt in turn, had suggested that
the Chief Executive call in leading
Democrats Of the House and Senate.
Those summoned to the White House
are Senators Smoot, Utah; Watson. In
diana; Reed, Pennsylvania Republic
ans, and Harrison, Mississippi; King
Utah, and George, Georgia, Democrats
From the House Ways and Mean
tives Hawley, Oregon; Treadway, Mas
sachusetts, and Bacharach, New Jersey
Republicans, and Collier, Mississippi
Rainey, Illinois, and Doughton, Nortl
Carolina Democrats.
The White House announcement o
the Wednesday morning meeting fol
lows:
"The President has requested tn
three ranking Republican and Demo
cratic members of the Finance Commit
tee Of the Senate and the Ways an
Means Committee of the House, to NEE
with him on Wednesday morning, a
10 o'clock, to discuss questions Of for
eign debt"
Announcement on Tuesday Session.
The almost equally brief announce
knent concerning the Hoover Roosevelt
conference on the preceding day. q
handed out at the same time, read:
1.-THE President and Gov. Roosevelt
talked over the telephone this mornin
In respect to the meeting over tn
questions raised in the Presidents tele
gram of November IL.
Gov. Roosevelt Is arriving In Wash
ington at $3.50 o'clock on Tuesday an
will come directly to the White Hous
Office. The conversations will be In
formal.
'The President will be accompanie
by Secretary Mills. Gov. Roosevelt wi
be accompanied by some one intereste
in the subject"
Available for the Presidents fisc,
studies were latest Treasury figure
showing deficit exceeding $709, 9,0oo,oC
on November IS. Also at hand wei
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