The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-07-21
News From
N aShington
By Eleanor Bare

To all freshmen" on the Hill this
problem of adjournment Is peiplexing
and a bit wearing Oh the nerves. The
old members, however, are accustomed
to playing the game now you see il
| (i. g.. adjOurn1nent) now You don't.
Rumors are flying thick and fast as 10
whether the members will leave Wash
| ingtou early or late this session, but II
even the majority leaders aren't able
to decide, certainly il isn't easy for
anyone else TO predict the date.
All odds appear TO be against an
early Adjournment. Even death has
Stalked the aisles of the Capitol TO
take it's toll and hold up proceedings.
In the past week, the House and Sen
ate recessed for the funeral services Of
The late Secretary of Navy Claude A.
Swanson. and members also spoke in
| eulOgy of the late Representative Sam
McReynOlds, of Tennessee, chairman
If the House committee OH foreign af-
fairs. Illustrating the fact that THE
show must 90 Oh" Representative Sol
Bloom, of New York. ranking member
of the foreign affairs committee, inn
mediately filled the late very well lik-
I'd Representative McReynolds' post.
The most important factor of deter
mining the date of adjournment being
the neutrality legislation. all eyes are
turned toward the Senate foreign rela-
lions committee, and Senate Majority
Leader Barley for the stop or 20 sig
nal, his opinion of what Congress
should do after having heard the pres
ident's recent message in collaboration
with Secretary Of State Cordell Hull.
| The consensus of opinion among the
members concerning the message can
be expressed in independent Senator
Norris words, Il like the message, but
1 don't know whether it is going to do
any good or not"
Congressman Lesinskis six omnibus
bills, which he was successful in hav-
ing passed by the House Of Represent
atives, are now pending in the Senate
for action. The six bills contain SO
individual items introduced by 164
members of the House. TwentySix Of
these individual bills affect residents
Of the state of Michigan, who are eth
er veterans or dependents of veterans
who served i'm any war hut the world
war or Spanish American war, or dur
ing peacetime
Although il WAS passed 10y the House
by rOll-call vote of ri to 124, the
f. ID. Roosevelt library bill was debat-
cd heatedly from partisan stand
point. Representative Dewey Short, Of
Missouri, took up the cudgels on the
Republican side of the aisle by bitterly
denOuncing the plan of supporting u
lib! AIRY containing the presidents pa
perS and 10y calling the president
names, which Representative Jerry
VOOrhis. Democrat of California, ar
gued back was quite out of place and
impolite 1t is in this proposed library,
to be built at Hyde Park, where the
handmade American flag, presented to
President ROOsepelt 10y the Hungar-
ians of the Sixteenth congressional dis
trict, will be put on display.
Congressman Lesinski has, upon re-
quest, introduced a bill TO permit APP
prOximately 5000 natives Of India who
entered the United States prior to
July 1, 1924, to become naturalized.
The bill has been referred TO the COM
mittee on immigration and naturaliza
tiOn, of which Mr.. Lesinski is a mem
Der.
Recent visitors in Congressman Les
| inskl's Washington office were Post
master and Mrs. John Yagley, Of Dear
born, Ell route to a postmasters' con-
ventiOn in Ohio.