The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-04-10
Congress Shuns
Presidents Bills

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Enacts Only One Roosevelt Meas
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portant Bills Pending
| WASHINGTON April 8-(Auto-
caster)-The 18th congress has been
in session for three months and has
succeeded in enacting only one item
of the presidential legislative pro-
gram, and that with strings on it..
Whether the enactment of the
work-relief bill in it's compromise
form signifies the breaking of the
congressional ''log- JAM" and will be
followed by the speedy passage of
all the rest of the things the presi-
dent has asked for-and some that
he hasn't-is still uncertain. There
is some feeling that congress, hav-
ing forced compromise on this
major measure, may begin to "feel
it's oats" and take a still more inde-
pendent attitude.
The measures which the president
is set upon includes extension Of
MIRA for two years, after its legal
expiration on June 16; his social
security" plan; the new banking
law giving government control Of
banking and credit; the bill to regu-
late public utility holding compan-
les, and some Important amend
ments to the Agricultural Adjust
ment act. I'll.
Push Whole Plan Through
To the suggestion that the pro-
gram is too big for one session Of
congress, and that much Of the pro-
gram could well be laid over until
next year, the president has given
a firm negative. He wants to push
his whole plan through this year.
so that the second session of the
present congress will have a clear
track for the purely political activi-
ties related to the election Of 1896.
If the president gets his program
through this year, there will have
been a year Of experience which, if
recovery results, will be of the great
est political advantage in 1886; if he
doesn't get it through this year the
second session of this congress will
be wrangling over it right up to the
time for the national nominating
conventions, and that the president
will have to go before the country
with some Of his experiments UNI
finished.
Whatever congress does with the
presidents program, it is trying
hard to hand him some things that
he doesn't care about. One is the
bonus measure, to which, as it
passed the house, is attached the
Patman scheme for printing press
money up to 2 billion dollars with
which to pay the bonus in full. The
outlook now is that the senate will
accept this plan, the more conserva-
tive senator's hoping to be able to
sustain the inevitable presidential
veto.
j There is evidence Of the initiation
airy sentiment which pervades the
house of representatives especially,
but with which the senate is nber-
ally tinged, not only In the adop-
ton of the Patman fiat money plan
by the house but in the lacking on
to the work-relef bill in the senate
of the Thomas silver amendment.
One thing the president wants to
avoid, at least until after the 1896
election, is currency initiation. He
believes that if he can get the bank
ing bill through 1t will be unneces-
Sary.
Watches "GOld- Block" Nations
The president is also hopeful, his
intimates say, that the European
situation will result shortly in
France and, of course, the rest of
the gold bloc" nations, devaluating
their currency as England, the Uni
ted States and Japan, among others,
have already done. This would open
the door for another international
monetary conference ION stabiliza-
ton Of international exchange, and
this time France would not block
the way as 1t did in the conference
OF 1888, the calling of which was one
of Mr.. Roosevelt's first official acts.
The situation in respect Of the ex-
tention of MIRA Is narrowing down
to choice between acceptance of
that or Of the Wagner 30-hour week
bill. Senator Wagner's plan pro-
vides a new labor relations board
and would give government COM
plete control over all relations be-
tween employer and employee, with