Evening star., 1935-04-21
DEM0CRATSPUSH
SIX MAJOR BILLS
Leaders Trim "Must" List
in Effort to Adjourn
by August.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Narrowing their must" legislative
list to six bills, Democratic congress
sional leaders yesterday planned a
drive for speed which they hoped
would let them end the session before
August.
The must" bills were social secur-
ity, N. R. A. extension. utilities hold
ing company legislation, banking
taxes and an increase in the fund
available for the Home Owners Loan
Corp.
OF those measures. only one-the H.
o. L. C. fund increase-has been
passed by both House and Senate. 1t
is IN conference for an adjustment Of
differences over minor amendments
inserted by the Senate. All the other
must" bills are still locked In Senate
or House committees. although the
security program has been passed by
the House
In arriving at the Six-bill program
leaders had to shunt aside, at least
temporarily. legislation dealing with
transportation, ship subsidies and
amendments to the farm adjustment
and the food and drug acts.
Night Sessions Considered.
It was their understanding. one said
speaking privately, that the Presi-
dent will be willing for Congress to
adjourn without acting on those bills"
Indicative Of the desire for speed
was the fact that Senator Harrison,
Democrat, of Mississippi was consider
ing night sessions of his Finance
Committee to expedite three bills now
before it.
Tomorrow and Tuesday his COM
mittee will hear witnesses on the
compromise" bonus bill; Wednesday
it will hold an executive session on
the bill, with Harrison hoping for
prompt approval.
After bonus bill is reported to the
Senate, Harrison's committee will
take up the N. r. A. and the social
security bills. It was forecast the first
would take 10 days to 2 weeks in
committee, and the latter probably
an equally long time.
fdIm AlO up 10mOfT0Ws
On the Senate floor, meanwhile. the
question Of sending back to committee
the bill setting up billion dollar cor
poration to aid farmers will be consid-
cred tomorrow. That will be followed
by the anti-lynching bill, on which
filibuster Is promised. And Senator
Long, Democrat, of Louisiana will be
back in town tomorrow to answer Sec
retary IckeS' assertion that the Lou
isianan suffers from "halitOsis Of the
intellect
The hearings on the highly contro-
versial omnibus banking bill, ap-
proved Friday by the House Banking
Committee, will be resumed tomorrow
by the Senate Banking Committee.
In the House, most Of the admin
istration's bills are a little farther
along. Tuesday the $3.50, ,000, 900 naval
appropriation bill-next to last Of the
nine annual supply measures-will be
considered.
The following week, the omnibus
banking bill will be debated and,
Democratic chiefs predict, passed.
Their hope is that the utilities hold
ing company bill will be approved next
and brought to the floor.
N. r. A. Bill May Be Delayed.
Meanwhile, the House Ways and
Means Committee just finished
putting the social security bill through
will get to work on N. r. A. exten-
sion and the renewal of nuisance"
taxes which expire June 80
Chairman Doughton said there was
q possibility that his committees ac-
tion on N. r. A. might be delayed II
the Senate showed signs Of a vote.
He added that there was at least a
possibility" that this session might
get by without imposing any additional
taxes"
Summarizing the general situation
today, Speaker Byrns told newspaper
men:
The House, in all probability, will
be ready to adjourn by June Is. II
there's any delay beyond that, 1t won't
be our fault"
In the Senate, however, lengthy de-
bate of all the must" bills yet to be
passed promised that leaders there
would have difficulty getting ready to
adjourn by June Is. The forecasts
were that 1t would take an unusual
burst of speed for the Senate to get
through before August /.