AMERICAN CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23352, 18 November 1937, Page 11

AMERICAN CONGRESS

THE SPECIAL SESSION LIKELY TO BE INEFFECTIVE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. (Received Nov. 18, at 0.5 a.m.) The quarrelsome mood of the Congress was again illustrated when the Senate spent a day -heatedly debating an anti-lynching measure. The Bill was continuously opposed by southern Senators and hardnushed by northerners. It threatens to make the special session ineffective. t

Reflecting the likelihood of another diversion of Congressional interest from the main business of the special session was the introduction by Senator R. M. la Folette. jun., of a constitutional amendment limiting the power of Congress to declare war, and another requiring a plebiscite* before the United States could engage in war. Both amendments are very similar. They stress the necessity that men who suffer and die in war should have the right to decide its declaration. Senator Graves introduced a measure designed to take the profits from war through universal conscription of both men and resources.