Evening star., 1933-03-05
|F|NAL LAME DUCK
CONGRESS CLOSES
Adjournment Takes CoIorfuI
and Prominent Figures Back
to Private Life.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

reorganize the Government to cut costs.
Philippine independence, and the bank
ruptcy reform bill, were achieved by
the lame duck session.
But the majority Of the Democratic
proposals failed. and even one appropro-
priation bill, that for the District Of
Columbia, carrying $4,000, 900. did not
get through the House. Nine Of the
eleven annual supply bills carrying ST.
922 ,991 900 for Government operation,
and $1,259,070,321 for public debt re-
Quirements, were passed and signed oy
Herbert Hoover before his term expired.
The bill for Independent Offices was
given q pocket veto, MIR. Hoover de-
claring 1t appropriated too much money.
Wrangling Blocks Action.
Most Of the Democratic legislative
program outlined at the beginning Of
the session calling for balanced
budget, farm relief, beer, additional
taxes and economy fell by the wayside.
The Republican-c controlled Senate,
heavy with lame ducks" and the mar
rowly divided party strength in the
House was largely responsible for the
| wrangling that blocked action.
The Roosevelt domestic allotment
farm relief bill, the Glass banking re-
form legislation, the Steagall guaranty
900 unemployment relief measure. all
silver reconciliation, medicinal liquor
and the Smith cotton bills failed OF
enactment. Mr.. Hoover pocket vetoed
the Smith measure, but he signed the
Jones bill reappropriating $4,000, 900
for crop production loans.
Both the new Senate and House are
Overwhelmingly Democratic. Vice
President Garner administered the oath
Of office to "a Senators yesterday, in
cluding Is new Democratic members.
The bare majority the Republicans held
In the Seventy-second Congress was
shifted and the new standing is So
Democrats, SO Republicans, Farmer
Labor and one vacancy.
Among the prominent Democrats who
make up the new Senate are William
Gibbs McAdoo Of California. former
Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who
was appointed to succeed Claude A.
Swanson, the new Secretary of the
Navy, and Nathan L. Bachman Of Ten
nessee, who succeeded to the seat va
Gated by Cordeu Hull, the new Secre-
tary Of State.
Democratic members-elect to the new
House already have selected Represent
ative Rainey of Illinois as successor to
the speakership vacated by Garner, and
Byrns Of Tennessee as floor leader. In
that branch the Democrats have 313
seats. Republicans, lit, Farmer
Labor, 5.
Hoover Signs Fund Bills.
Mr.. Hoover came to the Capitol to
sign the last of the appropriation bills
to become law He sat In the presi-
Dental room and affixed his signature
to the $349,840,000 War Department
measure first. He then signed the Sec
ond deficiency bill, calling for an outlay
of $31,000,00O, Of which $28,000,000 is
for tax refunds.
Items In the deficiency bill included
100000 for unemployment relief in the
National Capital; sl50,00o for expenses
Of the American delegation to the
World Economic Conference; $227,000
for payment of judgment against the
Government in favor of the Pocono
Pines Hotel Co., at Stroudsburg, Pa,
and $3.50 for Senate and House in
vestigations Of utility holding COM
panies.
MI. Hoover also signed the Fletcher