The Coolidge examiner., 1939-08-03
AS 1T APPEARS TO
Your Congressman
BY John R. Murdoch

Yesterday I took a young r1an
mere from Tucson, seeking govern
ment employment, to interview The
personnel officer of the R. F. C.
AS we were admitted we bum bed
into Congressman from North
Carolina and young man with
him who were leaving after an
interview. Later in the day in he
House Cloak Room, that 81. me
Congressman said to me, 81 hope
you had better luck than I had
this morning." I replied, Little
better, for he said the same thing
to me that he did to you" isn't
this hectic life," said the Con-
gressman from North Carolina,
trying to find jobs for these boys
who come from ones district"
1t is indeed hectic, not only for
the Congressman but for the ap-
plicants themselves. A good heart
ed Arizona woman furnished
lunches for two lean Florida boys
this week who had been in Wash
ington for several days seeking a
government job and hadn't been
able even to see their Congress
man. Too many folks have mis-
taken notions about governme
jobs in Washington-and also in
the states at home.
On July 9th the House accept
ed the conference report, with all
Senate Amendments, on the Re
clamation Repayment Measure
which had been passed some days
earlier. When this bill was in the
House Committee on Irrigation
and Reclamation fight ensued
over provision which gave
preference to rural identification
coeperatives in the disposal of
power generated on reclamation
projects. All Republican members
of the Committee and some Demo
cratic members insisted on delet-
ing that part Of the bill, therefore,
1t was not in the bill as it passed
the House originally. The Senate
put the language back into the
bill and the House passed 1t thus
by concurring in the Senate Amend
ment. This favors R. e. A. Pro
jects.
For some time the Social Sc
curfty Act of 1889 has been In
conference, and I have been hop
ing that the House Conferees will
concur in certain Senate Amend
ments. 1t begins to look now as
though we aren't going to have
any Social Security Act this ses-
sion, as the conferees are dead
locked over the Senate proposal
to have the United States Govern
ment furnish two dollars to The
states one, up to a certain amor ut.
The House Conferees are unwill-
ing to give in on that point, be-
cause they are unwilling for the
division to be changed from the
fifty-fifty arrangement so long pre-
vailing.
have been urged to support a
proposal in the pending lending
spending bill to earmark $90,00O,OOO
for use in reclamation. Let me
assure all that I do not need to
get letters and kilograms from
home prompting me to work for
and support any provision for +he
benefit OF reclamation. l think
this earmarking is likely to stay
In IL the bill itself is passed.
On July 26th the House passed
Transportation Bill which Is a
modified form of the Wheeler Bill
S. 2009. I believe that this mea-
sure will be distinctly helpful to
the railroad companies and their
employees. In the district Of the
shipping and consuming public
was watchful that the Long and
Short Clause was not repealed, and
supported the Jones Amend
ment, together with the Green ad.
dition thereto, in order to give adj
vantage to all farm commodities,
including grove, vegetable, and
animal products. This measure
should be beneficial to our trans
continental railroads without plac-
ing an undue burden upon the
general public.