Evening star., 1933-06-10
CONGRESS SEEKS
TO QUIT TONIGHT
Industry Bill, Veterans Plan
and Appropriations to
Be Disposed Of.
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disagreement to the income tax publi-
cation and other amendments, but this
was soon forthcoming.
Three Bills to President.
Under President Roosevelt's pressure
for closing before the London conference
begins Monday, in quick Succession both
the House and Senate yesterday had
stamped final approval on the So 900 ,000,-
0G0 home mortgage, railroad reorgani-
zation, and gasoline-electricity tax
postage reduction bills, and sent all
three to the White House for Mr.. Roose-
velt'S signature.
This tax measure is estimated to raise
$135 100000 toward balancing the bud
get, and gives President Roosevelt power
to reduce first-class postage from 8 to
2 cents, besides cutting local letter rates
from to cents.
To See Ball Game.
Despite heavy work yet to be done
the House planned to recess for three
hours in the afternoon to view the an
nual Republican and Democratic base
ball game at Griffith Stadium After
this the members arranged to return to
business and to stay at work until mid
night.
through from its 10 am. meeting time.
The new Congress, mastered by
Democratic majorities, convened in ex-
ira session on March 9, only five days
after President Roosevelt was inaug-
urated. On that first day it enacted
into law emergency banking and con-
troll legislation that paved the way for
reopening the Nations banks.
From that day on it voted an amaz-
ing succession of new powers to the
President, denying nothing that he
asked despite vigorous protests from the
minorities. The Executive himself,
while sending up to the legislators one
bill after another, was carrying on an
intensive series of conferences on world
economic problems, planning reorgan-
ization of the departmental machinery
of the Government and selecting the
big corps of aides needed to direct new
tasks and old
Swept along by the momentum in
spired by the Chief Executive, Con-
gress early enacted the economy bill, de-
signed to cut half billion dollars of
expenditures from lopSided budget
Quickly it then legalized beer, but
relaxed its speed to argue over the
emergency relief-farm mortgage bill
until the President took charge of the
initiation proposals in the Senate and
secured broad power to control the
currency.
To carry out one of his own favorite
designs, Mr.. Roosevelt secured con-
gressional sanction of his, Forestry
Conservation Corps to give work to
250,000 idle men. The huge Muscle
Shoals-Tennessee Valley development
measure soon was approved and next
came the Federal supervision of securi-
ties fulfilling another Democratic cam
paign promise.
Having invoked his authority to pre-
vent the drain by foreign countries of
this nations dwindling gold supply, the
President startled the world by asking
and obtaining Congress consent to
strike the gold clause from all Govern
ernment and private contracts amount
ing to hundred billion dollars.
On top of this, his proposal to spend
a half billion dollars for direct relief
was enacted and already some of the
money has been poured into the States.
A new Federal employment system to
cooperate with the States was set up
with congressional approval.
Indications were that the Presidents
arms embargo proposal, the st. Law
renee power ALLEGATION, GlaSS-Steagall
bank reform, the municipal relief bill
and various Oil control measures will
have to go over until the January ses
sion.