WORK OF CONGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 10

WORK OF CONGRESS

A LONO SESSION

EXPEDITING THE PROGRAMME

PRESIDENTIAL WORRIES

(Received July 1, 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Juno 30. As the session of Congress continues into July, the Administration leaders' are prepared for a concentrated drive I to expedite the remainder of the Roosevelt legislative programme, which has been so seriously delayed. Usually by this date Congress has adjourned or is preparing to do so, but it now appears that it has one or perhaps two more months' work ahead of it. Summers in the capital city are notoriously uncomfortable, and as the weather get:; hotter and hotter the nerves of Congressmen are getting more frayed, and some observers are predicting a record session both in length and in vitriolic debate. Tomorrow the House of Representatives will take a vote on the Utilities Regulation Bill, and there are indications that the President has only about an even chance of being victorious in his determined fight to have '-'unnecessary" holding companies abolished by 1940. Meanwhile the Banking Reform Bill is going through the slow legislative machinery, and there is a possibility that the anti-Administration revolt will result in the elimination of the provision vesting central bank authority in the Federal Reserve Board, which in turn would largely be put under the control of the President. Committee hearings on the new wealth taxes, which . President Roosevelt insists must be passed this session, cannot start .for at least a week, and how long the debate on the measure will require cannot be even guessed. To add to the Presidential worries, it is now revealed that the calling-oiT of the coal strike is contingent on the passage of the so-called Guffey Coal Bill, which is designed to stabilise the industry through co-operative agreements between the workers and the operators, but which is being vigorous' ly fought by many leading mineowners. -