The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-12
Senate ROlyTS
BILL TO delay
SESSION END
Administration Forces Vote
Down Effort to Defer
Adjournment.
MAY FINISH TONIGHT
Three Major Items Remain
for Decision Before
Congress Quits.
MAY FINISH TONIGHT
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WASHINGTON, June 12.-Ad-
ministration forces drove toward an
early adjournment of congress by
defeating two attempts today to de-
lay conclusion Of the session by con-
sideration of measures not on the
administration program.
Senate Democrats, with a below
ing mo- that Jared the chamber,
shouted down a motion by Senator
Vandenberg rep, Mich), to bring
to the senate for consideration a
bill to relieve bankrupt cities.
The house ways and means COM
mittee voted to delay consideration
Of the Lea wine legalization bill I'M
til the regular session of congress
next January.
Vote on the Vandenburg motion
buries the bill in committee and
avoids the delay which would have
resulted from floor consideration.
Majority Leader Joseph T. Robin
son begged the senate not to bring
the bill out I'm the closing hours
of the session."
May Quit Tonight
He predicted that passage of the
Dill would involve the government in
the financing of city and state
governments.
Opinion of congressional leaders
regarding probable time for adj
Journment was divided. Speaker of
the House Henry T. Rainey pre-
dlcted that congress could adjourn
some time tonight" but other lead
ers said they believed adjournment
would be delayed until Tuesday and
perhaps later.
Three major measures still await
senate approval just where they
were Saturday, when progressive
Republican rebels smashed adjourn
ment plans with a threat of fill
buster which still echoes over Capi-
tol Hill.
All the bills are vital. The adj
ministration is firm in its demand
for fast action on them followed by
quick adjournment, it was said
after a Sunday night conference. at
which President Roosevelt and his
congressional leaders went over the
situation.
Three Major Items
Senator Harrison Dem., Miss).
one of the conferees, said, There is
still no definite agreement as to
when congress can adjourn"
The three items still recurring
senate action are the sweeping in
dustrial control measure, an appro-
priation bill supplying funds for the
$4,000 100000 public works program.
and the veterans economy compro-
mise.
1t seemed probable that these
could have been put through the
senate Saturday night, despite in
surgent rumblings, had not Presi-
dent Roosevelt been anxious to start
his governmental reorganization
program and save $25 100000.
Ire Is Aroused
Late Saturday he sent to con-
gress an executive order regrouping
various organizations in the
executive departments and abolish
ing few, such as the national screw
thread commission. The President
has unlimited authority to regroup
and to abolish, subject only to con-
gressional veto which must, however,
be exercised within sixty days.
Obviously it would have been i'm
possible for congress to decide and
announce in the last hours of a
session whether the Roosevelt plan
was unsatisfactory.
Angered by the circumstances
under which the changes were pro-
posed, progressive Republicans
baked. They were joined by several
regulars.