The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-02
CONGRESS TO FACE
new LEGISLATION
ASKING PWA FUNDS
Official Business Halted Be-
cause Of Death Sunday Of
Aged Lawmaker

Washington, April 2.-(R- Congress
Is up to its ears in work and the end
Is not vet. President Roosevelt Is ex-
pected to give the legislators more
labor when he gets back from his fish
ing trip. Democratic leaders UNDER
stand he will ask for about Il 800, O0O,-
600 additional for the PWA.
There was no official business Mon
day because Of the death Of Rep. Pou
Of North Carolina. dean Of the house,
but both branches will plunge into
their task Tuesday. They are anxious
to adjourn and get to their home work
in preparation for coming elections. :
Democratic leaders plan to push for
action on such important admins
tration legislation as the revised
sugar control and $3.50, 000, 900 revenue
bills.
Besides acting on the sugar bill
Tuesday, the house Is to vote on the
johnson measure, already adopted by
the senate. This would prevent de-
faulting war debtors from obtaining
loans here. Action may be reached
also on the Rankin resolution, calling
for an investigation Of utility rates by
the power commission.
The senate will plunge into tax bill
debate Tuesday with view to q vote
late in the week. The senate bank
ing committee again planned to take
up In private the highly-contested
stock market regulation bill.
Win Name Committee
Speaker Rainey soon will appoint q
special congressional committee to in
quire into the charges Of Dr.. william
A. Writ, Gary, Indiana. educator, that
the brain trust" Is plotting revo-
luton. He also will name committee
to look into Nazi propaganda and &C
tivities In this country.
The administration and the house
judiciary committee are failing to see
eye-to-eye on the way to put gang
dom on the spot.
Coolish Is the way to describe how
some committee members received the
Administrations proposal to strength
en- the federal power against the un-
derworld.
HALF q dozen bills passed by the SEN
ate, including federal control over ma
chine guns and bolstering the Lind
bergh kidnapping law, now are before
the house group.
Because of labor department OBJ
jections, one plank In Attorney Gen.
eral Cummins' program already has
been slated for considerable shaving.
Others May De Killed
Committee members said Monday
some Of the other six might die In
committee.
The labor department objected to
the misunderstanding bill, contending
that It was 80 broad that It might even
forbid labor strikes. Charles =. Wy
sanski. Jr., labor department solicitor.
protested.
The justice department Is willing to
accept modification. But even that
change win not make al the bills &C..
ceptable to Chairman Summers (Dem.
Texas.)
I'VE ought to leave something to
the states in order to preserve for
them the capacity to govern them
selves" he said. y recognise the res
possibility Of the federal government
IN eases Of IN interstate character,
but that responsibility must be exer.
cised very cautioully."
He favored federal control Of ma.
chime guns. and said the states would
be given broader power TO make COM
pacts among themselves. The anti.
crime bills cover broad territory. They
ara dAGi0nAd "a aivA the federal row.