The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-29

Congress has been crltlcl
to extend its life. The Pres
ident served notice that pres
ent gains under the recovery
administration must not be
abandoned, and that the time
for action is short.
Democratic members of the House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee have been cooperating
with Republicans in an effort to
rewrite the Wheeler-Rayburn hold
ing company bill into a form more
acceptable to utility companies.
Mr.. Roosevelt rebuked them with
a declaration that he considers this
legislation a positive recovery meas
ure." that holding company DONNA
ton of utilities has given the coun-
try as a whole an uneasy apprehen-
sion of overconCentrated economic
power"
Senate conservatives, headed by
Democratic Carter Glass. have been
delaying the banking bill, and try
ing to dismember it in order 20
leave out reform Of the Federal Re-
serve system. They have been as
sisted by Hobbies as powerful. if less
obvious, than those fighting the
holding company bill.
President Roosevelt warned that
his banking proposals ARE a mini
mum of wise readjustment of our
Federal Reserve system in the light
of past experience and present
needs" and asked prompt and ia
vorable consideration Of them.
Emphasizes Social Security
To those who have charged re-
Gently that the Administration was
cropping blindly in its effort to deal
with economic forces, the President
spoke directly with a declaration
that 'the Administration and the
Congress are not proceeding in any
haphazard fashion in this task OF
government"
Citing the complexity and appar-
ent confusion that attend ship
building, he said: 1t is that way
with the making of a national policy
each Of our steps has a definite
relationship to every other step
the overwhelming Majority Of
people in this country know
that the process of constructive re-
Nlrrf1Efy,er If 10
IN a day or a year. but that it is
being done in spite of the few who
seek to confuse them and to profit
by their confusion"
In hammering home the unity of
all parts of his economic program,
the President emphasized the i'm
portance Of his social security meas
ures to complement the work relief
program now getting under way. ard
promised that his transportation
program will stimulate not only
business recovery but general
economic recovery as well.
Nations Objective Changed
Congress at this session has not
had the close guidance from the
White House to which it has become
accustomed in the last two years.
As a result it has fallen back into
some of its old ways of thought, and
some of its leaders have been talk
ing of early adjournment, TO aid
business recovery
The Presidents talk has pulled
them up sharply and made them
realize that much more than this
is expected of them.
The objective of the nation has
greatly changed in three years"
said Mr.. Roosevelt. Before that
time individual Self-interest and
group SelfShneSS were paramount in
public thinking. The general good
was at a discount. Three years Of
hard thinking have changed the
picture"
AS a result of the Presidents
talk it seems possible today. for
the first time in months. that the
major points in the Administration
program will be enacted into law
before adjournment. Congress had
DS6il SAUWA4E uAlll4SNdhdO1e SlEllS
that 1t was preparing to translate
its sulky. reluctant obedience on the
work relief bill into terms of more
fortnight defiance.
Now that it is clear the PreSi-
dent will still so to the people with
his purposes and ask them to pass
Judgment on legislators who thwart
them. the atmosphere is very diff
ferent. Congress is disgruntled that
the work relief program apparently
will not include the costly and i'm
pressive projects each member
hoped to get for his district. but it
no longer has any illusions about
the necessity for a fortnight choice
between President Roosevelt and
the interests at work 10 defeat his
program