Evening star., 1934-06-06
CONGRESS TO SET
END OF SESSION
Roosevelt Leaves ReSpon-
sibility for His Program
to Members.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt is leaving to
Congress responsibility for the admin
istration's legislative program and the
adjournment date.
This was made known today at the
Presidents semi-weekly press con-
ference.
1t also was said the President would
sign the corporate bankruptcy bill at
noon tomorrow.
The President is still hopeful that
some agreement may be reached for
building the St. Lawrence Waterway
and is expected to carry on discus
sions with Canadian officials and
members of the Senate to adjust diff
ficulties which have prevented the
Senate from ratifying the present
treaty.
Congress Has Bills.
AS for the legislative program, MI
Roosevelt has sent to Congress his
bills and he is leaving it up to the
leaders to decide what is best to do.
The corporate bankruptcy bill is
intended to enable corporations in
distress to obtain reductions in in
debtedness through adjustments with
creditors.
Mr. Roosevelt regards it as impor-
| tant that the very minute of the sign
| ing of the bill be announced so as to
prevent any group from getting ahead
on applications.
The attitude of the President on ad-
iournment was generally interpreted
as meaning that if congressional lead
ers are unable to secure the disputed
housing and Wagner Labor Board
bills, which he has Endorsed, they
naturally can adjourn.
Hopes for Mississippi Work.
President Roosevelt is hopeful that
funds will be available out of the
public works chest to undertake some
of the power and flood control prof.
ects in the Upper Mississippi Valley
this year.
Some projects have been mentioned
under the recent studies made by the
special cabinet committee although no
| specific recommendations were sub
mitted
The President said in response to
inquiry that he did not know how
much funds would be left from the
public works chest, but if some were
available and the proposed Upper Mis-
sissippi projects did not cost too much,
he would like to undertake them.
Amendments Possible.
The long-range st. Lawrence water
way plan, drawn up by the cabinet
committee and submitted to Congress
by the President, is based on the as
sumption that the waterway will be
constructed.
Defeat of the treaty in the Senate
has not caused the administration to
lessen efforts to construct the water
way in cooperation with the Cana
dian government.
1t may be necessary, it was said, to
amend the present treaty in order to
secure the Senate's approval, and the
President is understood to have un-
der consideration plans which may
prove acceptable.
The President later said the United
States would announce no naval plans
prior to the preliminary naval dis
cussions to be held in London in prep
aration for the 1885 naval reduction
| conference.
The President said that while the
subject was under consideration, any
announcement concerning naval poll
cies to be brought up during the
London talks probably will be made
by the American representatives dur
| ing those conversations.
Norman H. Davis, American Am
bassador at Large, already has been
designated as the American repre-
sentative in the conversations sched-
uled to start Immediately after June
Is, and will carry out the admins
tration's instructions.