Evening star., 1935-12-01
NEW n. R. A. BILL
READY FOR TRIAL
Measure Due to Be Pushed
if Industry Is Fa-.
v0rabIe.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A new N. r, A. bill was reported
authoritatively yesterday to be ready
for swift submission to Congress
should business show signs of want
ing it.
In the same informed quarter, It
was stated that President Roosevelt
had been advised of the basic pro-
visions of the measure and had ex-
pressed no objections.
Its provisions we're guarded, but
more than one in position to know
said it would:
/. Restate the power of Congress
to regulate interstate commerce and
add activities which substantially af-
feet interstate commerce;
2. Permit application of voluntary
codes to business engaged in such
commerce;
3. Forbid price fixing in codes ex-
cept for natural resources and in re-
straint of monopolies. Natural re-
sources might be eliminated in view
Of the expectation of some New Deal
ers that the Guffey coal bill will
weather the Supreme Court.)
Farley Verdict Awaited.
A decision on what to do with the
bill will not be made, at the earliest,
until conclusion of the meeting of
business men called December by
George L. Berry, co-ordinator for
Industrial cooperation.
Berry and his advisers are repre-
sented as doubling anything can be
obtained beyond a possible agreement
for creation of permanent organi-
zation Of labor and business leaders
TO give attention to industrial
problems
But, said one administration leader
on Capitol Hill, If the meeting devel-
ops any substantial sentiment for a
new N. r. A, the described bill will
be pushed at the session beginning
January 3. If not, it will stay in its
pigeonhole pending developments.
The projected measure follows
closely one which was ready for
enactment last May when the Su-
preme Court invalidated the old
NJ r. A. The Ways and Means Com
mittee had agreed. informally, to
report that bill to the House with a
recommendation that it pass. A
formal vote was delayed pending the
Supreme Court decision in the
Schechter case.
That decision upset all plans. 1t
was said yesterday, though. that a
study of the decision and the bill in
the months since had failed to con-
vince some New Deal lawyers that the
original measure, except for minor
changes, would not survive court tests
Richberg's Stand.
1t was reported that Donald R Rich
berg. last chief of the active Blue
Eagle. as well as the President had
approved the basic ideas of the new
bill.
1t embodies several suggestions made
by Richberg last year. He proposed
then. for instance, that the exact Ian
guage Of the Constitution be used in
describing congressional control over
commerce among the several States"
Most legislation based on the in
terstate comnimerce clause has used
between" instead of among" Some
lawyers agree the difference is minor
but others say use Of the exact
phraseology of the Constitution would
be helpful.
Richberg's 'among the several
States" is in the bill. Likewise. il
was expanded to include transactions
which substantially affect" interstate
commerce Richberg said limiting the
new N. r. A. to strictly interstate
activities would furnish another
vague and unworkable standard fol-
administration" AS illustration, he
said:
"a group of chain stores confininp
operations to a single State might bt
free from requirement of fair com
petition imposed upon national chain
stores operating in the same State
Under the new plan, the intrastate
competing chain would be subject tc
q code.