CONGRESS NEAR CLOSE OF LONO LONG LONC VIT VITAL A SESSION ati Nonpartisan Program at Opening Gives Way to i Campaign Plans 1 n Br Teen f WASHINGTON July l 10 swept sept today to the te j leaving behind 8 an historic record of ot the achievement and and conflict that nat ac accompany ompy the ventures of ot democratic government Into new fields ne Chroniclers doubtless will wi set down the thc more than seven even months' months session J f the longest in ten years ears as a crucial one in the country's country s development Its Is problems from the beginning lag las las' December 7 were as grave as a any that 1 ever confronted d the federal legisla Uve Live branch except possibly 1 In war i limes It tried earnestly to meet these the Wa 4 A During the early eary months politick 1 were minimized Written on the J stat ute books then were laws to postponed postpone tt for a year the debt pay pay- pay 1 j ments owed the United States by foreign for for- for 14 eign elga nations to create the huge Re Re- Re-j Re construction Finance Fiance corporation lib sj ib banking restriction levy 11 LT in new taxes give federal 1 aid to the needy abolish lame lam duck sessions STORM STORt BREAKS Then economy legislation to balance balanc J j the budget became pressing The pressig house houe launched a Te bill bi 7 which was cut to less than half hal that sum before it i passed The Te political storm broke President Hoover Hover emit emit- ci- ci j i c congress for for being unwilling to t 4 make mae bigger savings and Democrats Democrat 1 f retorting that his cabinet members member and appointees appoIntee were responsible responsIble Along about this thi time the Democrat Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- crat laid one springboard for the November campaign They Tey squeezed through congress a tariff tarl bill bi which I Ithe the president conge quickly vetoed Shortly thereafter Speaker Garner Garer not yet ye the Democratic vice presidential nominee nominee nominee nomi nomi- nee launched his relief bilL bil That went through congress congre despite despie presidential as assertions that it was pork barrel and md answers that it i W was was' bread breadbasket basket basket Another veto stopped this bill bi and congress was forced to tol draft the second jj But Democrats Democrats' intend to use me the vetoed bill bi as a additional campaign ammunition of which Republicans say uy JY they are not afraid Another point that will wi be emphasized in the plea plu- for votes will wi be Speaker Gamers Gamer's u insistence that tat loans loan from the Recon Reconstruction Reconstruction corporations corporation's fund should be published monthly and President Hoovers Hoover's assertion that that this would be harmful I BONUS REJECTED Congress Informed that another veto would meet cash payment of the bonus turned It t down despite despi pres- pres I sure With veterans massed outside outsIde the senate once voted against a bill bi with wih that purpose and already alread ip- ip p proved by the house house Continual m marching of bonus seekers the capitol in th the last lat days of the session sulon failed to put the bonus through The veterans' veterans siege itself itel was wa his hs tonic Not since the capitol was wa moved from Philadelphia to Washington Washing Washing- ton had there been such a demonstration tion IThe i iThe ton The session as a result resul of economic economIc 5 conditions saw In the discard numerous numer- numer nume J ous things termed radical radial a big proportion proportion pro- pro portion porton dealing with farm and unemployment 1 relief But many measures j that became law lav would have been bee t 1 termed radical radial ten years ers ago i Prohibition drew more attention All Al attempts to legalize and tax tx beer ber and repeal the eighteenth amendment were rejected In both houses house several times Because of the party platforms platforms plat plat- j forms this thi question was pushed more marc j toward the end of or the te session but the a effect of these efforts was wa the same e. e BEATEN IN Some members of congress felt fel a voters' voters sentiment result of changing on questions of public interest About 1 50 house members and a couple of senators file me out of ot the legislative ranks defeated in primaries Others oher were considerably worried over re- re rc-j rc preliminary as well wel as final votes otes Most of them worked hard hard pro Dr George Calve Calver house physician blamed several deaths on overwork and ad pleaded with wih members member to sloW slow down The end of f the seventy seventy f itself doesn't come March congress 4 1933 itel but the mortality rate the representatives and 96 among the ad rte 1 senators already approaches a record Those who do continue to serve sere though will draw 10 per cent less le pay py r ra 1 wf daw a cut they voted for for themselves In fn the economy campaign President j Hoover whose salary could not Ibe w be reduced by congress just y yesterdaY t j or of w announced he would return oJ t his to treasury the He e members should shoud take 1 per cent less along with wit the speaker and vice president t