Evening star., 1933-12-31
VICTORY FORECAST
FOR PRESIDENT IN
CONGRESS SESSION
Roosevelt Expected to Push
Program Through in Spite
of Opposition.
FIGHTS WILL CENTER
ON MONEY AND VETERANS
Executive Drafts Nessage-Iiquor
Tax, Revenue Law Revision and
Tariff Legislation TO Be Sought.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

- We NOALD Lt-NNOLN.
With legislation to supplement the
! already launched Roosevelt recovery
program as It's main task, the Seventh
third Congress Will convene at noon
Wednesday for its first regular
session.
This will be the first time since 1920
that a regular session of Congress. IS
distinguished from q special" session,
has not met on the first Monday il
December. The change in the meeting
date is due to the adoption Of the
twentieth amendment to the Constitu-
tion-the so-called lame duck" amend
ment.
Congress will find very different
atmosphere from that which greeted the
, legislators when they assembled early
last March for their first session. a
special session called by President Roose-
VeIt to deal with the emergency grow
4ng out OF the depression. The tales
which they bring back to the National
| Capital are OF increasing business and
! employment. Last March the whole
! banking system OF the country had been
smut down temporarily ana the darkest
period OF the depression was at hand.
! Drafts Message.
! President Roosevelt is expected TO
! send TO CCngresS-If he does not de-
! eide at the eleventh hour TO deliver it
/ IN persona message outlining the
program in general. The message
1t ls predicted viii not be long, and
VIII be supplemented b. other mes
sageS dealing with specific subjects Of
leglslatlOn-muCh as the Presidents
program was presented at the last ses-
SION OF Congress. He began writing it
Yesterday after completing his survey
| Of national affairs.
| Mr.. Roosevelt seeminglr has very
definite control Of the situation. It IS
! freely predicted that he Will be able
| to get his program adopted by Con-
gTess, and with comparative speed.
owing TO his popularity throughout the
country. and the division among the
| Republican minority in Congress over
the various items in the recovery pro-
gram, II Is not expected that the ses-
sion will cause him much grief. His
own party has huge maJorities in both
houses. While there Will undoubtedly
| be some barking at the admnistra-
ton, 1t Is expected the bites will be
| few if any.
There are three main subjects which
may lead to rows III Congress and at
tacks upon the administration. The
/ hrst IS the monetary policy. The sec
! Grams, and the third is agricultural re-
lief The farmers are still clamoring
/ for more aid
/ Silver VS.. Gold.
So far as the monetary policy Of
the President is concerned. there will
/ be two groups. The first VIII declare
/ Nj. Roosevelt has not gone far enough.
These are the inflationistS. and the
members Of Congress who are particu-
larly deslrous Of forcing through a
free silver bill and bi-metausm The
! imitation fight 1t now appears, Will cen-
ter particularly around silver remone-
| tlzaton. But the Presidents recent
ratification of the London economic
| conference silver agreement, agreeing
10 purchase practically the whole out
| put Of American silver mines at 645
cents an ounce has. it is believed, put
brake on the silver legislation-al-
though Speaker Rainey and other sill
yer advocates insist they will force the
issue.
The other group Will insist the Presi-
dent has gone too far with his monetary
policy, and will demand an immediate
return to sound money" and to the
| gold standard.
! Neither group is likely to override the
President in this matter Of the none
tary policy OF the country.
| Veterans compensation proved the
most serious threat to the control of
the President in Congress at the last
session. 1t may again Members Of
Congress returning to Washington say
the farmers are III a better frame of
mind, owing largely to the payments
from the Government which are now
going " chem for compliance in the
| cotton, tobacco ard wheat programs Of
the Government.
Outstanding in the legislative pro-
gram will be taxation Of liquor-to meet
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