Evening star., 1935-06-15
CONGRESS CHIEFS
.PUSH PROGRAM IN
SATURDAY SESSION
Senate Takes Up Social
Security, House Mis-
celIaneous Bills.
PASSAGE OF N. R. A.
REMOVES OBSTACLE
President Signs "stop-Gap" Meas
ure-U. S. Commerce Chamber
Warns of Uncertainty"
By the Associated Press.

by tne Associated Press.
Calling botr Houses Of Congress
into an unusual Saturday session, New
Deal leaders sought today to prod
them into race to clear the many
hurdles confronting the Roosevelt pro-
gram.
The Senate was way ahead nf the
House on the sdministrs tion's LIST
Of must" leglslation-and the leaders
Of the latter branch we're striving to
catch up but in neither chamber was
there much optimism that the goal of
adjournment by mid-July could be
attained unless some Of the New Deal
program is scrspped
The Senate was taking I'D debate on
the social security bill with a view TO
passing it early next week. while the
House today was handling miscella-
neous legislation.
One source of woe to the leaders
was past-the plan to extend until
next April a Goddess fraction of N.
r. A. had been enacted into law. In
the warmth of the years hottest day.
the House listened without interest to
brief final debate Yesterday and
then passed the extension resolution
along to President Roosevelt, 336 to
81. He signed it Immediately.
President Roosevelt today drafted an
executive order recognizing the modi-
fed N r. A
1t was expected that he would have
1t ready to announce Monday morning.
Donald Richberg, retiring N. r. A.
head, was slated for late afternoon
call at the White House, presumably
to aid In drafting the technical Ian
guage of the executive order.
Just what form of governing body
would be established for the new
agency continued uncertain.
Warning by Sibley.
As the bill was signed YESTERDAY.
Harper Sibley, president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, was at
tacking the resolution on the ground
Senate amendment which seeks to
tighten up the antitrust Laws threat
ems new uncertainty" for business
He contended the language added to
the bill was obscure" and "ambte-
uous"
ness men to turn to the Federal Trade
Commission for codes Of fair trade
practice to replace the N r. A. agree
ments. which the Supreme Court de-
molished. For years the Trade Com
mission has been engaged in setting
up codes, covering some of the same
practices as N. r. AS, but without
labor provisions.
1T Is obvious" Sibley said. "that
trade associations which wish to pre-
vent their members, or outsiders, from
engaging in unfair methods may OBJ
tain the assistance of the Trade Com
mission"
At N r. A.-where some predict the
pay roll will be slashed from 5,400.
workers to 1.500 or less-gloom pre-
vailed. Many workers expressed only
the vaguest interest in the data gath
ering and analysis which is to be a
chief task Of the agency.
Antitrust Debate.
Most of yesterdays brief House ar
gument-which bore not the slightest
resemblance to Senator Longs 151z-
hour filibuster in the Senate-was over
who thought first of the antitrust
laws. The actual situation was this:
Weeks ago. the Senate adopted the
Clark resolution, extending the old N.
r. A. The Supreme Court held that
invalid. so the House took the code
system heart out of the Clark resolu-
ton and approved it. The Senate
amended the House amendment. The
question yesterday was whether ths
House would accept the Senate
amendment.
The Senate amendment was known
as the Harrison -Borah antitrust law
enforcement amendment. Republicans
in the House claimed they had sug-
gested the same thing, but hal been
defeated in House vote on June I.
Democrats retorted, IN the words of
Chairman Doughton of the House
WAYS and Means Committee:
THAT amendment odds nothing to
and subtracts nothing from the House
amendment. I hope it makes the
Senators happy"
The purpose Of the Harrison Dorah
amendment, as explained by Senator
Borah, Republican. of Idaho. was to
assure against relaxation of anti
trust laws, and to stipulate that any
voluntary" and dnentorceable agree
merts-the only thing left of the old
". r. A.-must in.lude guarantees of
the right of collective bargaining,
maximum wage and minimum hour
provisions and pans against child
labor or unfair competitive practices.
House Democrats insisted that those
same things would have had to be
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