Evening star., 1934-06-17
SENATE BATTLES
EXTEND SESSION
Congress to Meet Again
Monday-GIass and
C0uzenS Row.
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Monday or Tuesday night. 1t is clear,
however, that If insistence on the pas
sage of some of these bills continues.
it may take another week to wind up
the session.
The House, which Is ready to quit
at any moment that the Senate Is
willing to conclude its work, had ar
ranged an old fashioned party to close
the Congress. The Marine Band was
on hand and the members were pre-
pared to sing a song written in honor
Of the House by Representative Siro-
vich OF New York. There was to be
and a general rejoicing.
All of this had to be thrown into
the discard because Senators lost
their tempers, and because they
sought to go beyond the legislative
program which had been agreed upon.
Several important bills did get
through during the long hours of
yesterdays session. among them bill
setting up system of retirement and
pension tor railroad workers and an
other bill putting widows and orphans
of World War veterans on the same
status as the widows and orphans of
Spanish War veterans, where it could
be shown that the veterans had been
80 per cent disabled as the result OF
service. 1t was estimated that it
would take about $4,000 900 to carry
out the provisions of the veterans
bill. President Roosevelt had agreed
n thn Do
son of Mississippi. chairman of the
Finance Committee, obtained action
on this measure in the Senate. 1t
had already passed the House.
When the Senate took a recess, it
had been in session continuously
nearly Is hours. The Senate met at
9 am. The House convened an hour
later, but took a recess later in the
afternoon.
Fight on Rail Bill.
The clash between Senator Glass
and Senator Couzens, which imme-
diately preceded the ringing down If
the curtain at the Senate session last
night. occurred after Couzens had
denounced the efforts of Senator
Hastings to prevent action on the
railroad labor bill At the time, q
motion was pending to resume con-
sideration of the banking bill.
Couzens insisted that one railroad
company-he had reference to the
PennSylvania-was blocking passage
of the labor bill. This measure would
practically put an end to the so-cal!ed
company union. For many years the
employees of the Pennsylvania have
belonged to such a union.
The Michigan Senator denounced
the attempt to pass the banking bill
when objection was made to the
passage of the labor measure. He
claimed that Wall Street bankers had
dominated the Banking and Cur
rency Committee of the Senate. 1t
was this that brought the Virginia
Senator to his feet.
Il wish at this late hour of the
night" said Senator Glass, that l
might impart some of my well known
precautions and conservatism to other
Senators. I-think l might say. with
out giving offenSe, that l rather think
it is scandalous Of the distinguished
Senator from Michigan (Mr Couzens)
to charge on the floor that honorable
members of the Banking and Currency
Committee are dominated by any
body. challenge him now to show a
single, solitary provision of the bill
that was even suggested by Wall
Street or is of interest to a single,
solitary Wall Street banker"
to reply.
COuZens Angered. ..
Visibly angered, the Michigan Sen
ator arose and said; Il shall do that
in my own time. when the Senator
has concluded his speech. 1 shall
show plenty that went on in executive
session concerning domination of
bankers in the bill''
Il want to say for myself" con-
tinued Senator Glass, that there Is
not banker in Wall Street, indivi-
dually or collectively, who has ever
opened his lips to me on the subject
of the provisions of the bill. 1 was
chairman of the subcommittee to
which all these matters were re-
ferred.
II do not know that it Is a compli-
ment to any Senator to say that he
has been approached by Wall Street
bankers or that he Is of such
subservient nature that he may be
dominated by Federal Reserve author
tiles. I resent it as one member Of
the Banking and Currency Commit
tee. have never been approached
suggestively or otherwise, by letter or
in person. by single, solitary New
York banker or any other sort of q
banker, except perhaps by distin-
guished members of this body who
felt that their little banks in the
small towns in the country districts
were treated harshly in requiring
them to separate Immediately their
investment and their deposit trans
actions"
Senator Couzens interrupted. He
said that Senator Glass was not pres
ent when Senators Bulkley and Wal
colt reported the bill to the full COM
mittee.
Senator Glass said that as he un-
derstood it 1.-The thing that some Wall
Street bankers did want in this bill
is not in the bill"
And the reason why it is not In
the bill," said Couzens, "is because
there was a split between the Wall
Street bankers, and the Senator from
Connecticut. Mr.. Walcott, testified to
that before the committee-that after
the subcommittee had agreed express
ly to extend the period of one year
for the segregation of the banking and
securities business there was a split
between the Wall Street crowd ard
in the committee, and the Senator