The Washington times., 1935-08-31
40 BILLS WAIT.
PRESIDENTS
SIGNATURE
Will Clean Up Grist
!. and Leave Tonight
for Hyde Park
Interna atIonal News Service

ENc"S ScTNICO
President Roosevelt was WELD.
ing a busy pen on last-minute leg.
islation today. preparatory to de-
parting tonight for his Hyde Park
home on the Hudson.
During the next two weeks or
more. the President will avail him.
self of the privacy of his family
estate to formulate a counter-at.
tack on his political foes. From
his deliberations in Hyde Park are
expected to come a series Of an.
SwerS to recent sharp criticisms
Of his Administration.
Two Important Bills
These replies will be made in
speeches delivered during the
course of a transcontinental swing
that is scheduled to start the last
week in September. This tour def
nitely will launch Mr.. RooSeVelt'S
campaign for reelection.
About two score bills awaited
final action before tonight's de.
parture. Most of them were rela.
lively unimportant.
New IVA legislation, strength
ening and lengthening the Gov
ernment's power yardstick. was
due to be signed today with
interested members of Congress
and officials present.
Another of the remaining
major bills certain OF signature
was the neutrality resolution,
which arbitrarily keeps American
munitions manufacturers from
servicing any belligerent nation
for the next six months.
Four Measures Signed
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the following bills:
l. The soak the successful"
tax bill, expected to take $249,-
100000 yearly from the pockets
Of the thrifty.
2. The Guffey coal bill,
establishing a little NRA" for
the bituminous coal industry
and which will speedily be put
before the Supreme Court for
a test of its constitutionality.
3. The new Federal Alcohol
Control Administration bill to
regulate the liquor industry.
4. The shipowners liability
act imposing broader RESPONSE
bilities on shipping concerns
in case Of accident at sea.
Will Restate Philosophy
With this work out of the way.
Mr.. Roosevelt will head for his
Hudson River home. there to
assemble the material on which
he will base his Western speeches.
Before lie reaches the San Deigo
Exposition, it was anticipated he
will have restated his philosophy
of government in most of its
essentials.
One known stop on the trek
across country will be made at
Boulder Dam. This setting will
afford the President an excellent
opportunity to inform the voters
of his further plans for regulat-
ing utility companies and pro-
jecting the Government itself into
the power field.
Whether or not Mr.. Roosevelt
will respond to charges that no
has been stretching the Consti-
tuition unduly remained to be
seen. He was reported. however.
to be ready to make an issue Of
the matter if necessary.
Wait Held Likely
Close friends we're of the opin.
ion he would wait until after the
Supreme Court had passed on
such new legislation as the Guf.
fey coal act before definitely tax.
ing up the cudgels on this score.
The President must be back in
Washington on September II to
attend the final meeting of his
allotment board for work-relief.
1t was understood he would re-
main in Hyde Park until just
before that date.
Men upon whom he leans for
political counsel will be called
into the "Krum Elbow" estate
during the next two weeks.