The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
Congress Conuened
 For 75th Session
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tCOnClnue0 nual address in person and on Jan- uary 8 the houses separately will hear clerks read the budget message. Another deficit and further in- crease in the national debt are in- evitable. 4
 On January 20, MT. Roosevelt will be inaugurated for another term and the second new deal will begin.
 Convened Separately
 House and senate convened sep- arately today. They meet jointly tomorrow to count presidential cleo toral votes and hear MT. Roosevelt's annual message. On Jan. 8 the presidents budget message, almost inevitably forecasting another fat deficit, will be read to each house by clerks.
 The president will be inaugurtaed Jan. 20, first to take, office under the 20th amendment to the Consti- tuition which abolished the short or lame duck" sessions of congress and shifted the start of presidential and vice presidential terms from March 4 to mid-winter.
 House and senate have agreed or organization routine. Congressiona. veterans predicted a. session of five months or longer. Two thousand bills are ready for introduction Party leaders remain the same as last session except that Rep. Sam Rayburn, bald, chunky Texas, will be house majority leader. Rep William H. Bankhead of Alabama was promoted to speaker in place of the late Joseph W. Byrns of Ten nessee, who died last session. Rayburn Is Leader Rayburn was jockeyed to the lead ership by Vice-President Garner al- though MT. Roosevelt declared he personally, was neutral. The de- feated candidate was Rep. Johr O'Connor, New York Tammany man who voted last session against the administrations public utilitie: holding company bill.
 New Deal leaders have promised there will be no additional tax leg islation this year. But congress is faced with other problems affecting almost every person in the land. As congressman assembled, the automotive and shipping industries were crippled by strikes in the midst of recovery. Lesser labor troubles dotted the nation. Labor leaders are maneuvering for presidential action in support of campaign promises that labor would have shorter hours and higher wages. Senate, House Democratic A senate almost five-to-one dem- ocratic and 8 house where 332 ot 435 members wear the democratic tag provide overwhelming, if un- wieldy, majorities with which te make campaign promises good Threats of dissension provided suffi- cient cause to expect serious demo- cratic cleavage before the session ends.
 President Roosevelt has sketcheo his program to snip and trim, merge and consolidate, revise and remode the first Roosevelt administration into a second and permanent New Deal.
 This congress will not be called upon to carry experiment and emer. gency legislation to more unexplor. ground. There may even be some retrenchmert. An effort toward governmental reorganization is as. sured.
 Plans to shift the New Deal iron temporary to permanent founda. tions, to revive most of the princi. ples of the late MIRA and continue the substitutes which supplantee agricultural adjustment activitiel have been revealed in broad out. | line.
 Objectives of President In his campaign MT. Roosevelt stated his objectives:
 l. Labor-shorter hours and high. CT wages: Abolition of child labol and sweatshops; promotion of col. lective bargaining.
 2. Industry-Abolition of monop. oly, unfair competition and dishon. orable trade practices. 3. Agriculture-Control of cror surpluses: Better land use; improved marketing facilities for farmers encouragement of farm coopera. tives; and crop insurance.
 4. General Cheaper electricity better and cheaper transportation low interest rates; sounder home fl. nancing; better banking; regulati tior of security issues; reciprocal trad, agreements: and slum eliminat ton
 Help Little Fellows
 That program represents an ex. tension and revision of the first New Deal. During the campaign 1t wor MT. Roosevelt the support of labor the little fellows generally, and { ma ajority of farming communities It was a mass movement which some critics complained, was be. ginning of class warfare arraigninl the "haves" against the have nots."
 Blow at Taxation
 The 18th congress, however, vii not legislate entirely with labor O the "little fellow" in mind. Tn prescription against new taxation will not prevent change in existin legislation to relieve business Q some of its burdens. Changes fl the 1935 corporation surplus ta have been suggested as likely. The included: M
 1. Reduction or elimination c surplus taxation on reserves acclin