The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-09-25

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Many Problems Come Up
Then See What Wi|IHap-
pen by Passed Laws

| WASHINGTON. Sept. Is = up :
Taxes on swollen business profits
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska
and possibly rent control look like
the big issues when Congress re-
turns to Washington two months
from now.
Even those problems may be toe
big to handle in quick session be-
tween Nov. 81 and the Christmas
holidays.
They were the major left-overs
when weary lawmakers knocked off
work late Saturday with slap at
President Truman-a humping re-
lection of his veto of a stiff anti
Communist bill.
The bill was put on the lawbooks
when the Senate voted 81 to 10 to
override the veto. That was IL votes
more than the two-thirds majority
needed. The House had overturned
the veto within an hour after Mr..
Truman sent it to Capitol Hill Fri
| day afternoon. The vote there was
286 to 40.
Senate Filibuster
The Senate vote came late Satur-
day after a small group of Sena-
tors had talked against the bill
almost around the clock. waging
what they acknowledged was a
losing fight. z
Senator LANCER (R-ND) collapsed
from exhaustion on the Senate floor
after speaking for five and a half
hours against the bill. He was taken
to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda,
Md, and is reported to be doing
WELL"
Another major enactment of the
adjourned Congress will have almost
immediate effect.
Income Tax Jumps
Starting next Sunday, income tax
withholdings will jump one-fifth for
most of the nations 100000 in
come taxpayers.
The tax-writing House Ways and
Means Committee has decided to
start public hearings Nov. Is on a
second tax increase which Con-
gress has pledged will include an
excess profits tax on corporations.
Estimates are that it will produce
from $4,000, 100000 to $6,OOO00O,-
100000 year.
/ Rent Control Bill
Rep. Spence (D-Ky) told news
men that he hopes to have a new
rent control bill ready for action
during the short session. The pre-
sent law expires generally on Jan.
/, although local communities can
extend controls for another SIX
months by taking positive action
to do so.
Spence is Chairman of the House
Banking Committee. which handles
rent legislation.
There appeared to be considerable
doubt that Congress would find time
to act before next year on rent
controls, or on such other items OF
unfinished business as the govern
ment's master plan for civil defense.
Congress Back Nov. "a
|; House and Senate set Nov. " 10
get back to the legislative grind.
Some members are bound to return
as defeated "lame-ducks," as all $50
House seats and SO of the SO in the
Senate are at stake in the November
election. The new 82nd Congress VIII
open Jan. 3.
A Congress in which Democrats
had majorities in both Senate anu
House gave the President only part
of the domestic legislation he ASKED
Accomplishments
On the list of accomplishments
besides the tax increase, were Items
like:
A big expansion of the Social De
curity program to increase oeneli''
and make perhaps 100000 more
people eligible for them.
Removal of federal taxes on oieo-
margarine.
Raising from $1,000 to $4,000 the
Federal Insurance on bank deposl'o'
Boosting the national minimum
wage from 40 to rs cents an hour
100000 slum clearance anu
low-cost housing program. :,
But many a Truman propose,
went to the scrap pile and stayeo
there. For example:
Civil rights legislation. The piav-
forms of both big parties backed w
but it couldn't climb past the threaV
of a southern filibuster. In adoi-
ton:
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