Evening star., 1933-05-07
DEMOCRATS renew
| DRIVE TOMORROW
Aim to Complete Program Of
RehabiIitation-Farm Bill
to Be Reported.
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opposition on Capitol Hill, where there
Is strong demand for some kind Of q
guaranty Of bank deposits in order to
restore confidence Of the people in the
banks. As Senator Fletcher and other
Senators view the situation, the need is
to restore that confidence now and not
wait for a year. There will also be
strong opposition to an adjournment Of
the Congress without having enacted
into law q bank reform bull
Subcommittee 1t Work.
Over on the House side. q subcom-
mittee Of the Committee on Labor Is at
work on the Black 30-hour work week
bill, which already has passed the Sem
ate. Chairman Connery of the House
Committee said yesterday he expected
the subcommittee to have the redrafted
bill ready to report to the full COM
mittee by Wednesday and that he
hoped the Labor Committee would re-
port the bill to the House in . few days
thereafter.
The Black bill will be amended by
the subcommittee, believe" said Mr..
Connery, so as to provide for mini
mum wage: to establish control over
production in industry: to raise an en-
barge against importation OF goods
from foreign producers who do not con-
form to q 30-hour work week, and to
give the board which will administer
the proposed law q certain amount OF
leeway to exempt from its operation
workers whose strict adherence to the
80 hours would work great hardship
on the industry" .,,
Mr.. Connery predicted that the bill
would be made TO apply to newspapers:
although he said that the editorlai ana
reportorial stats would not be included.
The chairman Of the House Labor
Committee said that some OF the pro-
posals which his committee would write
into the Black bill, including the mini
mum wage and control Of industry
output, had been recommended by the
Secretary OF Labor, Miss Perkins, ana
others close to the administration.
The administration, on the otner
hand. Is represented as being strongly
opposed-ce certainly the President is-to
the provision laying an embargo on
goods imported from foreign nations
which have not been produced unoer
3O-hour- work week plan. Sucn
law would virtually shut out all man
ufactured imports. 1t Is said. II the
committee insists on carrying this pro
vision in the bill, 1t may prevent any
final action on the measure during the
present session.
May Limit Bond Issue.
Before the week is out President
Roosevelt may send to Congress his So
called public works program. designed
to stimulate employment in this coun-
try It has been intimated in some
quarters that the proposed bond issue
the first bond issue for the purpose
NAV be limited even to $500, 900 600. In
the opinion of Senator La Toilette OF
Wisconsin and others who are iaVorlng
q public works program on q large
scale. such q limitation would be sui
cidal and result In no real beneflt. Sen
ator La Toilette expressed the opinion
yesterday that the program should De
for So. 600 900 600 to bring the maximum
amount Of benefit to the country.
In this connection the House Rivers
and Harbors Committee has just COM
pleted work on q rivers and harbors
bill, calling for q total expenditure OF
| S98 500 600. Chairman Mansfield Will
ask for an appointment for his COM
mittee with the President at the White
House to discuss this bill In an enort
to have 1t tied into the Administrations
public works program. If possible the
committee will visit the White House
tomorrow. The members will lay par
/ ticular stress upon the fact that ~
per cent of the amount proposed to oe
expended in this work will 60 in wages
to the workers.
After the House has disposed OF the
conference, reports on the farm rellel
bill and the unemployment relief bill,
II Is expected to take up the independ-
ent offices appropriation bill. recently
reported to that body with its old to-
tai of about q billion dollars cut IN
half The greater part Of the reduction
is due to slicing $3.50, 900, 900 from the
item for veterans pensions and relief
Majority Leader Byrns said that ne
thought two or three lays might be re-
ouired to put this bill through the
House. The veterans slash undoubteo-
ly will be attacked on the floor OF the
House 1t is in conformity. however.
with the powers granted the President
In the economy act passed earlier.
D. C. Bill Is Waiting.
The only other appropriation. except
a deficiency bill, awaiting final action
Is the District Of Columbia bill, which
has passed both houses. When agree
ment is reached on Senate amendments,
final approval will be had and the bill
| will be sent to the President.
Chairman Fletcher Of the Senate
Banking Committee has referred to
subcommittee headed by Senator Bulk
| lev of Ohio the home mortgage Dill,
which has passed the House. As soon
as It has been whipped into shape to
satisfy the committee. 1t will be report
ed to the Senate. Another major TASK
Of the Banking Committee. the drafting
| of bill to regulate stock and COMMONLY
exchanges, has still to be begun. Ihe
committee has been delving into tnat
question for year or more. The chair
man expressed the hope that before
| long 1t could get down to the actual
| work of drafting such bill, although
| in other quarters it has been int1mateo
| that consideration of q stock exchange
bill would be allowed to 60 over until
next Winter.
The committees Of the Senate and
House having to do with railroad legls-
lation both will begin hearings early
this week on the new emergency rail-
road bill, sent to the Congress by the
President last Thursday.
The Senate Finance Commlttee Is to
act soon on the House bill extending
, the Federal gasoline tax, reducing post
age on local mail and transferring to
| the producer the electricity tax now
paid by the consumer.
May Junk Some Bills.
The word has been passed to get the
Congress out of the Capitol by the sec
ond week in June. With huge legis-
lative program still to be put through
this seems an almost impossible task,
despite the speed with which Congress
has dealt with important measures in
the two months of its existence. II
may be that some of the measures may
have to be junked if there is to be an
adjournment early in June. Further
more, President Roosevelt Is still con-
sidering sending messages to Congress
| asking that he he Qiven mower To deal