Evening star., 1937-10-30
LEADERS PUSHING
SPECIAL SESSION
5-PO|NT PROGRAM
Some Feel All Can't Be En-.
acted Before January De-
spite Preparations.
COMMITTEES STRIVE
TO HAVE BILLS READY
Reorganization Measure to Be All
Set by Nov. 15-Delay Seen
on Antitrust Law.
By the Associated Press.

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Administration leaders in Congress
are working against time in an effort
to get President Roosevelt's flve-point
program ready for debate at the spe-
cial session beginning November is.
House and Senate Agriculture Com
mittees are the busiest, for farm 1egis-
lation will have the right of way.
Members interested in other bills, how
ever, also are returning early.
Even if all major bills should be
ready at the start of the session.
and some will not-many legislators
have expressed the belief the entire
program cannot be enacted before
the regular session begins in January.
Here is the status of measures on
the administration program:
The House Agriculture Committee
is completing bill to limit acreage
planted in principal crops. Farmers
would be allowed to raise and market
as much as they can on their allotted
land.
Chairman Jones said the measure
also would continue the present soil
conservation benefits and would estab-
lish an ever-normal granary system
to store surpluses of some crops for
use in lean years.
Members of the Senate Agriculture
Committee still are getting the views
Of farmers themselves.
Wage-Hour Standards.
There have been unconfirmed re-
ports that revisions may be offered TO
the bill empowering board to estab-
lish in interstate industries work
week of not less than 40 hours and
minimum wages Of not more than
40 cents an hour.
The present measure, now bottled
up in the House Rules COMMITTEES,
has been criticized by leaders OF
both the American Federation of La
Dor and the Committee for Industrial
Organization. Many Southern Con-
gressmen are opposed TO 1t. contend
ing 1t would retard industrial develop
ment in the South.
Chairman O'Connor of the House
Rules Committee has written members
urging them to permit the bill to reach
the floor. The Senate passed 1t last
summer.
Chairman Cochran of the House
Reorganization Committee will re-
turn next week to take charge of bills
revising the civil service system and
replacing the controller general with
an auditor general.
The House approved last summer
the other portions of the Presidents
reorganization program: Creation of
six administrative assistants at the
White House and authority to rear
range Government agencies.
The Senate Committee Jumped the
entire program into one bill, which
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
Carolina, said would be ready at the
start of the special session.
Regional Planning.
The Presidents regional planning
recommendations, first submitted last
summer, will receive impetus when
Senator Norris, independent, of Ne
braska arrives in few days.
He is the author of a bill to put
into operation the program, designed
to conserve the natural resources
prevent foods and produce electric
power for general use.
The President asked that antitrust
laws be revised to make them work
more effectively, and the Federal
Trade Commission is expected te
reiterate its own recommendations fol
changes.
No bills have yet been offered, and
officials say the subject is so compli-
Gated that action may be delayed un.
til the regular 1893 session. .