Show I CREDIT PLAN AGAIN MEETS WITH DELAY Couzens Blocks Opening of Conference Between Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate and House f BANK BILL MOVES Direct Federal Aid Measure Given Okeh Bv fly v United Press PreS v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan 18 The IS-The The 2 reconstruction finance corporation through which the administration administration ad ad- administration ministration hopes to revitalize AmerIcan American Amer Arner- ican lean business met further delay in congress today Both house and senate have passed bills to set up the huge credit project President Hoover is ready to name the men to direct it But the bills are different and must be adjusted by conferences between house and senate enate Beginning of these conferences conferences confer- confer was impeded by parliamentary Saturday by Senator Elaine Blame Republican Wisconsin and today b by Senator Couzens Republican I can Michigan The administration measure to aid the federal land banks fared better This also had been passed by both houses House conferees today accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac a senate amendment increasing increasing ing to the amount of new federal capital to be given the banks I A senate subcommittee approved the La Follette-Costigan Follette bills to provide pro pro- I vide of oC federal funds for direct unemployment relief WILL FIGHT MEASURE I The measure must be considered b bj by bythe Ithe the full senate manufactures committee commit commit- tee where administration leaders will wil try to kill it A bill recently passed by the senate to give farm board boan wheat to relief reBel agencies appeared to have been sidetracked in the house I Officially before the senate was a deficiency appropriation bill providing provid provid- jing ing more than of ot added funds for r government operations this year ear The house took up the measure measure measure mea mea- sure appropriating for the thet t American delegation to the Geneva di disarmament conference Committee hearings were dominated I ed by the appearance of Governor I Alfalfa BUI Bill Murray of Oklahoma who went before the house ways anc and means committee to ask that the states be empowered to establish banks to provide credit for farmers Bills to restrict short selling of wheat and cotton were advocated before before be be- fore the house agriculture commit commit- tee Witnesses declared present regulatory measures were worthless Efforts of the shipping board to build up the American merchant marine marine marine ma ma- rine were defended by Chairman T. T V. V OConnor O'Connor who was summoned in a house committee e investigation of the boards board's operations A member of the house judiciary committee asked Secretary Secretary- of the Treasury Mellons Mellon's attorney to present present present pre pre- sent a list of Mellons Mellon's stock holdings The committee is considering a resolution resolution reso reso- lution calling for Mellons Mellon's impeachment impeachment impeachment impeach impeach- ment because he allegedly violated an old statute forbidding the treasury treasury treas treas- ury secretary to engage in business |