Evening star., 1933-04-16
TO SPEED
LACG|NG CONGRESS
Leaders Faced With Many
Bills PiIing Up on CAL
endar.
Continued From First Psge)


in the Senate and In the House are
waiting for word from the White House
as to how far the President is willing
to 60 In the matter of imitation and
what course imitation should follow.
The Black 30-hour work week bill Is
still tied by the leg in the Senate on a
motion made by Senator Trammell of
Florida to reconsider the vote by which
1t was passed. Efforts made yesterday
by Senator Smith of South Carolina
and others to obtain unanimous con-
sent to devote an hours time to the
consideration Of the motion to recon-
slider and then vote on the motion were
futile. Objection was made by Sena-
tor McNary Of Oregon, Republican
leader. Whereupon. Senator Robinson,
the Democratic leader, ANNOUNCED that
he would move an adjournment of the
Senate at the proper time yesterday SO
that the motion for reconsideration
would have to come up in the Senate
tomorrow, and then he would move to
lay that motion on the table. And
there it stands. II Senator Robinson
goes through with his plan, the Senate
is expected to send the 30-hour work
week bill along to the House Monday,
after tabling the motion to reconsider.
In the House the Black bill, 1t Is be-
lieved. will be materially amended. The
hours Of labor permitted may be in
creased. though that is not certain. or
may be made more flexible. Further
more. 1t Is believed that if the White
House approves, amendments will be
offered which will undertake to fix min
1mum wages in the various industries.
This minimum wage proposal is said
to be one Of the measures by which the
White House hopes to check the defla-
tion Of wages and labor in industry.
Securities Bill Soon Ready.
With regard to the securities bill,
Senator Fletcher, chairman of the
Banking and Currency Committee. SAID
his committee had virtually completed
the amendment of the administration s
Dill He was waiting, he said, for con-
sultation with the members Of the
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee, who also have been hard at
work on this measure. He hoped, he
added, to be able to bring the bill into
the Senate tomorrow or Tuesday.
The subcommittee of the Banking
and Currency Committee which has
been working on the Glass bank reform
bill has that measure about ready,
Secretary Of the Treasury Woodin
however, Is to be in conference with
the members Of the subcommittee in an
effort to bridge the impasse which last
week arose between the congressional
sponsors OF bank reform legislation and
Mr. Woooln. Mr.. Woodin has been
represented as opposing the bank de-
poSlt insurance plan and also the
speedy enforcement of "afiliates" deal
Ia
subcommittee, it was said last night. is
willing to hear what Mr.. Woodin has
to say about these features of the bank
bill. but is bent upon having its way
and will go ahead with the introduction
OF the bank reform bill whether he
agrees to its provisions or not.
New York Influence Factor.
Secretary Woodin, it is believed, re-
nects in his opposition to certain fea-
lures OF the bank reform bill the atti-
tude OF the New York crowd" And
the New Workers. when it comes to the
notation Of billions of dollars of Gov
ernment bonds. as now proposed in ad-
ministration circles, are quite potent,
Just how far the administration can.
therefore, afford to 60 on turning down
the big flnanciers in New York, who
nave their associates in every other big
financial center Of the country is q
question.
The Muscle Shoals bill, or Tennessee
Valley development bill, is on the Sen
ate calendar, favorably reported from
the Committee on Agriculture within a
lew minutes after it was taken up for
consideration. It must wait, however.
until the farm bill has been passed with
It's farm mortgage relief amendment. At
present, SO far as the Senate is con-
cerned, the farm bill Is responsible for
the legislative log jam. Senator Rob-
lnson said that he hoped it would be
possible to dispose of the bill by Wed
nesday. But unless different Spirit is
manifest in the Senate this week the
bill may take considerably longer.
Senator Hebert Of Rhode Island. Re-
publican. vigorously attacked the farm
Dill yesterday In the Senate. He de-
clared that 1t provided for erection of
political machine with limitless power
to control elections by granting fayors
to either producers or professors and
susceptible of flagrant corruption" He
said that the measure would more than
double the living costs of the consumer
ana that 1t would hit particularly hard
the worker in industrial centers. II is
a bill. he said. to put manufacturers
out Of business"