Evening star., 1936-06-21
Session Closed
as Coal Bill
Is Killed.
TAX MEASURE
PASSED, 1920
Goes to President
After Fight
i'm Senate.
BY the AS cciated Press.

o1 AlIt ES' SNie-bSh ANSS'
The Seventy fourth Congress, which
topped off the administrations pro-
gram yesterday by finally approving
the trouble-Studded tax bill, adjourned
sine die early today after de-
termined, but listless, flibuster.
Just before midnight, youthful Sem
ator Holt, Democrat. OF West Virginia,
one of those who had been f1libuster-
Ing against the Guffey- -VinSon coal
control bill with a sharp attack on
John L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine workers, ended his talk and
the Senate quickly adjourned.
The House, which had been stand
Ing by while the Senate sought to
break the bonds of the .flibuster. fol-
lowed suit at 12:39 am, and the
second Roosevelt Congress ground to
an end.
Galleries were packed with gay
crowds, eager to be present when the
big show on Capitol Hill was finally
ended Time and again, they had
to be warned by presiding officers to
restrain. themselves.
Food and Drug Bill Killed.
In the closing rush, not only was
the Guffey-Vinson bill designed to
replace the outlawed original Guffey
coal control act, flibustered to death,
but the controversial food and drug
bill was killed when the House re-
fused to agree to the conference re-
port,
Having turned the tax bill-esti-
mated to produce S800000,000 in new
revenue-over to President Roosevelt
in midafternoon. the House and SEN
ate sat down to hold wake, with the
Guffey-Vinson bill sentenced to death
by the filibuster.
One last-minute furry broke into
the unusual calm which hung over
the two chambers, ordinarily so turbu-
lent on adjournment night.
1t was an attempt by hackers of
the coal bill, watching it ground un-
der the f1libuster, to hold Congress in
session for a day or so more.
Wearied by the prolonged session,
the Senate shouted the effort down.
House Adopts Resolution.
With little to do, the House had
adopted a resolution for sine die ad-
journment early in the afternoon,
calling for adjournment at night. 1t
was rushed to the Senate.
That chamber did not take the hint
Immediately. Instead, it filled the air
far into the night with speeches, po-
litical shipping, an occasional bit of
good d-nat tured fun and now and then a
bit of actual legislating.
During one interruption for bit
of actual work, the Senate approved
several nominations and then shot
through the Walsh-Healey bill to re-
quire Government contractors to COM
ply with wage and hour standards.
The bill went to the White House
when House amendments were ac-
cepted without trace of opposition.
The only other major action in the
waning hours of the Congress was
Senate rejection. 35 to II, of last
minute push for the FraAer-Lemke
bill. which would have permitted the
printing of $3,OOO,OO00OO of. new
money to refinance farm debts.
Senator Frazier, Republican, of
North Dakota sought to attach it as
an amendment to the coal bill.
Clocks Hands Turned Back.
AS the hour of midnight was reached
in the House, the hands of the clock
we're turned back while Chairman
Doughton of the Ways and Means
Committee expressed the regret of
the House over the retirement of Rep
resentative Samuel B. Hill, Democrat,
of Washington, who has been appoint
ed to the Board of Tax Appeals.
Hill had been chairman of the i'm
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