The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-31
BY LYLE c. WILSON

United Press StaR Correspondent
 Washington, May 3l - UP) - Congress is ready for quick ad- journment on word from the White House which may be given today when President Roosevelt confers with his legislative leaders. He re- turns at 8:3O a. m. from a week end at Hyde Park.
 Only New Deal attempt to re- viye government reorganization or a stalemate on wages and hours legislation would be likely now to brake the adjournment sprint.
 First hand from Congressional leaders MT. Roosevelt will learn of sharp resentment aroused on Cap ital Hill by his Arthurdale, w. Va, tax speech. Rising with that anger is a wave of Congressional dis approval of Federal Relief Admin istrator Harry L. Hopkins 'sugges- tion to Iowa voters that they oppose Sen. Guy M. Gillette, D, la, in next Mondays primary.
 Political and business observers are judging the tax speech and Hopkins statement especially in light of their effect on efforts to promote industrial cooperation with government toward recovery and in relation to the division developing in the New Deal-Democratic party since last years judiciary reorgani- zation conflict.
 Some persons closely associated with organized business interests now predict slowing of industrial efforts to cooperate with the Roose- velt administration although plans for business-fostered collaboration of labor and industry are being pushed. There is considerable evi- dence that the business-government cooperative movement has less i'm pOtus today than previously and that MT. Roosevelt's tax speech was distasteful in many respects not only to powerful business interests but to the main body of anti-NeW Deal Democrats ia Congress.
 But the adjournment drive press es on with leaders apparently hope ful of winding up the session before June l8 and perhaps by the end Of next week. The wages and hours bill is ready to go to conference M which southern Senators will at tempt to obtain agreement on some kind of differential wage scales In favor of their employers and below the scales to be established for nohhern and eastern factories.
 The $3,247, 100000 recovery and relief appropriation bill will move fairly rapidly toward final judgment in the Senate under limitation of de- bate agreement which becomes ef- fsetive today. The bill has passed the House.
 An amendment designed to pre- vent public works administration loans or grants for electrical power development in competition with private utilities is slated by the ad- ninistration for defeat. A $2l2,000,- Oo0 Senate amendment to provide party payments funds for farmers has better chance of survival al- though MT. Roosevelt has repeated his desire that all new expenditures bS provided for by new taxes.
 Beyond those two bills, Congress need only adopt final deficiency bill to dispose of urgent legislation
 MT. Roosevelt, himself, probably will turn from domestic problems Thursday in an address to the United States Naval Academy grad uating class at Annapolis, Md. He is expected to re-state the Ameri- can foreign policy and remind the world of the advantages and neces- sity of peace.
 His tax speech and Hopkins statement abruptly highlighted the division in Democratic ranks which has created minority but powerful conservative opposition to New Dea. policies. MT. Roosevelt permitted the tax bill to become law last week without his signature, protesting what he termed abandonment ol principles embodied in the corpora ton spurplus and capital gains ta> levies which Congress accepted 1T 1936 but substantially curtailed 1T the 1888 act.
 Chairman Pat Harrison, D.. Miss. of the Senate finance committed broke publicly with the president or those issues, denying that principles had been abandoned or, in fact that MT. Roosevelt had properly