The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Weary 79th Congress Goes Home
 Lawmakers Left Divided Record
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national affairs but vigorous dis agreement on domestic issues. The so-called Victory Congress" of World War II succumbed last night to the weariness of 20 his tory making months of war and peace and went home for the long, est Congressional vacation in eight years. Before the new Congress recon venes next January they expect to know, through November election returns, whether majority of the American voters agree with the rec ord they have established in the last , two years.
 Baked Before Truman
 The election returns, they believe, will determine whether it was a popular move when they showed their independence of the White House after the passing of the late President Roosevelt and baked his successor time after time.
 The Congress in which MT. Tru- man started as a Missouri Senator and aScended to the White House three months later treated him poorly on many of his legislative recommendations. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky publicly acknowledged that fact in brief speech during the Senate's closing hours But he insisted that when historians assess the record they will find that the retiring Congress worked harder and accomplished more for the public good than any of its predecessors in the last quar- ter century.
 Congress treatment of MT. Tru- man in the field of international co-operation was dramatically evil dent in the closing hours Of the session. The Senate overwhelming ly agreed, 60 to 2, to submit the United States to compulsory Juris- diction of the new world court in all matters of treaty interpretation and international law The only dissenters were Sens. William Lan- ger, CR,-N D., and Henrik Ship stead, (R.-Minn)., who voted last year against ratifying the United Nations Charter.
 Short On Social Security
 In the same session, however, the Congress approved only limited liberalization of present Social Se- ourity laws far short of the cradle to grave program MT. Truman re- uuested many months ago.
 Between Charter ratification ear ly in 1945 and the court resolution yesterday, the Congress also had augmented the Administrations program of international co-opera- tion by:
 l. Endorsing the Breton
 Woods Monetary Agreement of
 1914
 2. Approved s3,750.oo0,ooo
 loan to Great Britain.
 3. Provided huge funds for
 United Nations Relief and Re
 mobilization. -. ...4s ..
 4. Implemented the United
 Nations Charter with arrange
 ments to cooperate with other
 nations in the interchange of
 agricultural, educational and
 scientific information. .
 On most domestic issues the Con- eress either watered down or con- pletely rejected the Presidents rec concentrations. ..4.:
 For instance, after a bitter wrangle which involved veto and eleventh-hour compromise, the Con- greSs agreed to extend the Office of Price administration until June ,r-it1o amendments that MT. Truman signed it into law reluctantly"
 He even threatened that if 1t hampers his fight against runaway imitation he may yet summon the 79th Congress back into special seS- sion this Fall.
 The record contained many sim liar examples of the Capitol-White House split Among them were:
 MILITARY - Congress extended the draft law only until next March 3l instead of for full year and put a ban on taking l8year-olds. It flatly rejected his proposal to merge the Army and Navy into single department of national defense and the idea of a permanent peace-time conscription program.
 FULL IMPROVEMENTS bill which finally won congressional ap- proval fell far short of the Admin istration's proposal to practically offer a Federal Government guar antee of 60,OO00O0 jobs.
 HOUSING-An emergency pro- gram for veterans housing finally got through but a long range per- manent program aimed at erecting more than 100000 dwellings year through public private co-opera- ton died in the House of Represen- tativeS.
 MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES The Senate substituted 65-centS -an-hour floor for an AdminiStra- ton plan intended to run it up to 75 cents. But again the House baked and killed the measure.
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 UNITED STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE-CongresS decided that job-finding services taken over by the Federal Government during the war should return to the states Nov. Is, instead of next June 30.
 GOVERNMENT REORGANIzA- TON MT. Truman got through two out of three plans submitted.
 LABOR-Congress passed and MT. Truman vetoed the so-called Case Anti-Strike Bill intended to put rigid controls on labor unions. But Congress pigeon-holed his plea for Work-or-draft authority over strik- CTS against the Government and likewise denied his proposal for a six-months Congressional study into the causes and effects of labor dis putes.
 RACIAL DISCRIMINATION - The Senate blocked Administra- ton backed and House-approved