Evening star., 1935-01-02
President Is Expected to
Deliver Message in
Person.
DEMOCRATS IN SENATE
RENAME OLD LEADERS
Fight Probable as House Majority
Meets Today-Lame Duck
Session Is Missing.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The second New Deal Congress, the
seventy-fourth in the history of the
country. assemblies at poon tomorrow.
1t comes hot of the hustings, with
out the old cooling of" period inter-
venlng between the congressional elec-
tionS and the first regular session of
the new Congress. In this, it estab-
nshes precedent, due to the Norris
antl-lame duck amendment to the
Constitution.
The meetings of both Senate and
House are likely to be merely routine
tomorrow. The members newly elect
ed will be sworn in. The House will
elect Representative ByrnS of Tennes-
see as Speaker and the Senate again
will choose Senator Pittman of Nevada
as President Pro Tempore to preside
in the absence of the Vice President.
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats, meet
ing this morning, unanimously re-
elected Senator Robinson as their
leader.
House Group to Act.
House Democrats planned to meet
later in the day to name a leader.
At the Senate gathering today, j.
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois was re-
elected whip and Hugo L. Black of
Alabama was renamed secretary of
the Democratic conference. There was
no opposition to any of the nominees.
Chance of a ruction in the Senate
on the opening day over the seating
of Senator-elect Holt of West Vir-
ginia because he will not reach the
constitutional age of 80 until Summer,
was eliminated when the Democratic
until he becomes of senatorial age
next June, before presenting himself.
What Congress and the country are
awaiting with the keenest interest are
President Roosevelt's annual message
to Congress "on the state of the
Union" and his budget message. The
President is expected to appear at
joint session of the two Houses in the
House chamber Friday to deliver his
annual message in person. The budget
message, containing the administra-
tion's recommendations for appropri-
ations during the coming fiscal year
and its fiscal policies, will not 60 to
Congress until Monday unless pres
ent plans are changed.
Details Guarded.
The details of the Presidents program
have been closely guarded. If mem
bers of Congress have been given ad-
vance information, they have closely
guarded it.
Mr.. Roosevelt's recommendations
for relief and for public works, for
social security and for making per-
manent some of the New Deal laws,
including national industrial recovery
act, are still to be revealed. His an
nual message, it is believed, will deal
with the whole situation in the coun-
try and his legislative proposals in a
general way. to be followed later by
briefer, special messages to Congress
on individual measures.
The second New Deal Congress
| comes to Washington with the unem-
ployment emergency still confronting
| the country. Relief work on a large
scale, however, has been underway
for many months and the problem is
| somewhat different from that which
confronted the first New Deal Con-
gress which assembled in March, 1888.
It has been announced in administra-
ton quarters that it is planned to get
| the unemployed of the dole" and
into work relief" for which they
will be paid.
Conference Friday.
The President will meet congress
sional leaders Friday night at a con-
ference in the White House to go over
plans for the legislative program. An
nouncement of the meeting was made
at the Presidents conference with the
press today. While the President is
expected to deal only with policies and
principles in his annual message, the
conference he holds with the congress
sional leaders is expected to get down
to details of the legislative program.
He may discuss with the leaders also
his budget proposals which will 60 to
the Congress next week. The Presi-
dent declined today to comment on his
program or public questions. Nor is it
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