Evening star., 1936-11-28
CONGRESS CHIEFS
PREPARE PROGRAM
Six Major Proposals Are
in Prospect for Session
Six Weeks Away.
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
With the opening Of the Seventy
fifth Congress only six weeks away. q
score of congressional leaders today
were hammering together the frame
work of a heavy legislative program.
Although President Roosevelt has
given little indication Of the measures
he will suggest. it appeared certain
that Congress would consider at least
six major proposals:
/. A farm tenancy bill. providing
Federal aid to convert tenants into
owners. Such legislation has been
urged by the President and Chairman
Jones of the House Agriculture COM
mittee, who said its passage was "as-
sured."
2. Minor revisions of the tax on un-
distributed corporation earnings,
promised by Chairman Harrison of the
Senate Finance Committee to relieve
any "inequities" revealed by the first
collections.
Crop Insurance Plan.
g. A crop insurance plan, incubat-
ing in the Agriculture Department and
the Agriculture Committees Of both
Houses.
T. A new neutrality act, to replace
the present law, expiring May l..
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee has pre-
dicted few changes. although Senator'S
Nye. Republican, of North Dakota and
Lewis, Democrat, Of Illinois, have
urged far-reaching expansion of the
Nations peace program.
S. A relief bill which probably will
be offered by the President late in
the session.
6. Notifications Of the Tennessee
Valley act. as suggested by Mr.. Roose-
welt, to put stronger emphasis on land
use and conservation activities.
The task of carrying the admins
tration's program through the House.
dominated by an unwieldy Democratic
majority, will lie with a new floor
leader to be chosen during the opening
days of the session.
Three candidates already battling
for the post are Chairman O'Connor
of the Rules Committee, Chairman
Rayburn of the Interstate Commerce
Committee and Representative Rankin.
Democrat, Of Mississippi, militant
advocate Of an enlarged Federal power
program.
Mead Proposed for Post.
Representative Better has proposed
his fellow New Yorker, Mead, for the
post, and other candidates. are ex-
pected.
O'Connor served as acting floor
leader during the final weeks of the
last session
Speaker Bankhead Is expected to
find little opposition to his reelection.
Most urgent job for the new Con-
gress will be to consider re-enactment
of many New Deal laws scheduled to
expire early in 1887. The Treasury
has announced it will seek q renewal
of the Presidents power to regulate
protection against unexpected cur
rency upsets abroad.
Other expiring legislation includes
the Reconstruction Finance Corn. g
lending power and activities of the
Public Works Administration and the
Electric Farm and Home Authority.
A top-to-bottom reorganization Of
the Federal Government, intended to
trim away unnecessary bureaus and
fit the emergency agencies into a per-
manent framework, Is being drafted
by three committees-named by the
Senate. House and President Roose.
welt.
New N. r. "A. Move.
A new attempt to reach some of the
N. r. A. objectives-especiall Federal
regulation Of wages and working con-
ditions-has been pledged by several
members of both Houses. l>
A system Of Federal charters for
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce has been proposed by Sena-
tor O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyom-
ing as the most feasible" method Of
establishing minimum labor standards
without amending the Constitution.
His plan has been approved "in prin-
ciple" by Chairman Wheeler of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee.
Other measures which seemed head
ed for early consideration include .
housing bill, based on the Wagner pro-
posal submitted last session; q plan to
regulate the coal industry, being
drafted by Senator Guffey, Democrat.
OF Pennsylvania, and a food and drug
bill, calling for more stringent regala-
ton Of the advertising and sale Of
medicines, foodStuffs and cosmetics.