Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-21
.GUFFEY BILL SPED
AS ADJOURNMENT
SENTIMENT GROWS
Early Vote Sought to Clear
Way for End of Session
Saturday.
WALSH BILL SHELVED
IN COMMITTEE, 1877
House Keeps Pace With Senate
by Hurrying Work on 7. V. A.
Amendments.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With Congress bent on going home
by Saturday night, administration
leaders sought to summon their full
strength today in an effort to whip
the Guffey bituminous coal stabiliza-
ton bill through the Senate.
They hoped to speed debate-already
peppered with challenges to the meas
ure's constitutionality-a move to-
ward an early final vote so as not to
delay adjournment plans.
Already in their dash toward ad-
iournment, the legislators have de-
livered two jolts to major parts Of the
Roosevelt administration program.
Some hours after a Senate House
Conference Committee had approved
new s25O.OO0DO0 tax bill which
embodied many administration ideas.
but left out the new inheritance taxes
strongly urged by President Roosevelt.
the House Judiciary Committee shelved
another piece of administration legis-
lation last night.
WASH Bill P1ge0n- H0led.
The committee. by vote Of Is to :,
pigeon-holed the Walsh measure to
impose N. r. A standards on all firms
which contract to do business with the
Government.
This bill, which appeared on the
must" list reported to have been
drawn up at Sundays White House
conference Of legislative leaders. has
passed the Senate, but unless the
Judiciary Committee reconsiders, it is
lost for this session.
Senator Walsh, Democrat. of Massa-
chusetts, in pleading for the bill as
one that would write the human
quality into Government contracts.
had told the committee 1t was an
administration bill" handed to him
personally by the President"
Fought by Business.
The bill had been fought by bust
ness representatives who called it
''tyrannical." Chairman Summers of
the Judiciary Committee. said:
1T is too important q bill to be
pushed through at so late a date"
While Democratic leaders sought to
avoid fllibustering or long fighting on
the question of neutrality legislation
aimed at keeping the United States
out of any war abroad, hackers of the
Guffey bill and the Tennessee Valley
Authority amendments sought speedy
action in the Senate and House. re-
spectively.
The Senate, by 81 to 20, had voted
to take up today the Gufley bill to
set up miniature N r. A" to reg
ulate bituminous coal, but there were
indications that the neutrality vote
might have to be squeezed in ahead
OF the other measure.
5l-2O Vote Held Lightly.
Leaders did not regard the 5l-20
decision as a conclusive indication of
the final outcome on the Guffey
measure, which the President insists
should not be blocked by any doubts
Of constitutionality.
Some leaders expressed confidence
the Guffey measure-high up on the
administration list-would be passed
by the Senate without dificulty, but
others were not so sure They said
the vote yesterday to consider the bill
was not to be taken as a conclusive
test of the Senate's sentiment.
The bill would set up a national
coal commission to arrange codes for
the soft coal industry. Boards would
administer wage, hour, fair-practice
and price-fxing provisions prescribed
in the codes. A Is per cent tax
would be levied on mine operators.
They would receive a rebate of 90
per cent If they accepted the codes.
Tydings Attacks Bill.
Senator Tydings, Democrat. of
Maryland launched an attack on the
bill yesterday, calling it a legal
monstrosity" He also asserted it
was class legislation" and class tax
alton" that will be blown away like
the Autumn flowers with the first
wintry blast from the courts"
Senator Borah. Republican. of Idaho
is opposed to its price fixing provi-
Sions. Tydings said antitrust laws
should not be suspended for coal.
On this last point Senator Barley,
Democrat, of Kentucky said the coal
industry never had been accused Of
breaking the antitrust laws.
In the House Democratic leaders
arranged for a quick. final vote today
on the T. v. A. amendments.
After that the Senate must take O
vote on them.
This bill, representing a compromise
lSee CONGRESS page A.