Evening star., 1937-11-26

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt said today he
wanted tax revision as soon as Con-
gress is ready to 60 ahead with it.
AS further moves to restore conf
dence and stimulate industry, the
President told his press conference he
would send message to Congress
Monday recommending legislation to
spur private financing of a large-scale
housing program and another Tuesday
proposing curtailment in the annual
appropriations for Federal aid in road
building.
A fourth STEP Mr. Roosevelt dis
closed, involves presidential letter
to department heads to anticipate
Federal purchases of supplies for the
remaining seven months of the cur
rent fiscal year and to speed these up
instead OF spreading them over until
June 30
In still another move to aid industry,
the President said he would continue
his conferences with power utility ex-
ecutiveS when he returns from the
South early next month. He wants
them to undertake an expansion pro-
gram.
Jokes With Questioner.
Asked If he favored tax revision
as an aid to business now, or at the
regular session starting in January.
the President joked with his questioner
and asked If he had been reading the
newspapers. Mr.. Roosevelt advised
reading his message to the special
session which he said made very clear
that tax revision was desired.
In other words, he added, he
wanted tax changes when Congress
had them ready to be made.
With a smile, however, he said he
did not want to fly in the face of
critical editorials of the past which
warned against undigested legisla-
tion-that is, the White House just
handing in bills to rubber stamp
Congress.
He emphasized all legislation should
be considered thoroughly.
The reduction in Federal aid high
way appropriations recalled Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau's recent
speech. in which he listed this item, as
well as relief aid farm aids, as possible
outlays that could be cut to help bal
ance the budget.
Other Cuts Budgetary.
Asked if this was the first step un-
der the Morgenthau program, the
President replied by saying the other
cuts proposed were budgetary and did
not require legislation, whereas the
highway slash did
Before the Presidents statement on
taxes. it was learned that demands for
q Senate vote on the controversial
anti-lynching bill at the special session
amy prevent any quick revision of
business levies.
Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, of
Indiana, co-author of the anti-lynch-
ing proposal, said he would insist that
the Senate stick to its agreement to
take it up Immediately after voting on
the crop-control program. An agree
ment on that point was approved
formally in August.
Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North
Carolina suggested that sponsors of
the anti-lynching bill, which he op-
poses, might be willing to sidetrack
1t for tax debate on the ground that
the latter is of an emergency nature.
But Senator Van Nuys declared:
There is no reason in the world
not ia take up the anti-lynching bill
after the farm program is out Of the
way.
20 Votes Obtained.
I'VE should dispose of the bill-we
have 10 votes in favor of it-and
then proceed quickly to other meas
ures"
The likelihood of prolonged anti
1ynching debate, however, caused
some Of the "do-something- for -busi-
ness" talk in Congress to veer toward
the possibility of giving tax revision
the right Of way at the regular ses-
sion convening in January.
Senator McAdoo, Democrat, Of Cal
ifornia. Secretary of the Treasury In
the Wilson administration, said taz
&SsAoAoA4 "0c OONUO1Ol. 31C CAp1 CSSSO
confidence, however, that it will be
given preferential position at the
regular session."
Senator McAdoo said he believed
the undistributed profits and capital
gains taxes-subjected to criticism by
business men for months-should be
modified and ameliorated to encour-
age new enterprise
From Chairman Harrison came q
reiteration that his Senate Finance
Committee would act promptly on any
tax revision proposed in the House
where revenue legislation must orig
mate
He said he had conferred with
Chairman Doughton and other men,
bers of the House Ways and Means
Committee, which is studying possible
tax changes. The House group, Sen
ator Harrison said, "is working rs ex-
peditiously "a 1t can"