| Show VET VEl ECONOMY ENDS EN D S SESSION OF CONGRESS Senate and House Adjourn Following Victory by Administration AT WORK THREE MONTHS Enact Many Bills Affecting Welfare By LYLE C. C WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON June 16 The 16 The emergency session of congress sum Mar March h 9 to grasp the country front from the brink of economic chaos was beaten into adjournment today by a smashing administration victory on reduction of war veterans' veterans com com- The unprecedented J time peace time acc session ses ses- ses sion slon ended at a. a m m. The administration lashed its majority majority ma ma- Int into grumbling order and jammed through the senate a a few minutes after midnight a compromise on veterans economy which h was rejected rejected re reo re- re 24 hours previously The vote was 45 to 36 A docile house of representatives abandoned songs and impromptu skits and speedily approved the bill thenet the thenet net effect of which was to reduce total to tal payments to veterans from over to about Sp Speaker Rainey Rainey and Vice President Garner then signed it and the last measure passed in this unexampled session was Wa sent to the White While House Howe In three months and one week this congress enacted laws deeply affecting affect ing the welfare pocketbooks and manner manner man man- ner of life of every individual in the country It launched a titanic drive against unemployment with measures d de designed de- de sl signed ned to create work for I within the next three months b by spreading employment in industry and starting vast public works It swept the country off the gold gol standard and authorized inflation b bevery by every conceivable method metho It hauled J. J P. P Morgan to Washington Wash Wash- ington and forced him to divulge his innermost business secrets It launched a great farm relief experiment legalized beer passe passed two tax bills voted to teed seed and clothe the destitute aided aide Continued on Pare o Two Tiro I VET ECONOMY ENDS OF CONGRESS Continued from fro P Pare Page e One home owners reformed the bank sy tern tem em and moved to reorganize the rail rail- roads With fewer words of oC debate than thanin thanin thann in n the past have been uttered in b be- be half of grasshopper eradication it appropriated in one bill the thc sum of mostly for public works enough to have paid government expenses ex cx- for fox three prewar years ears VOTE YOrE WIDE WIDE POWERS POWERS To President Roosevelt was voted more power than has been gained by any ny other man by consent of ot a representative representative legislative body A moment before adjournment the congress received t the e thanks of ot the president resident A letter from the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House louse expressed ed appreciation for or sincere sin sin- cere ere and whole hearted cooperation Mr Roosevelt said the achievements of t the thc special session proved that American government could r rise e to an emer emergency The pr president wished the tars tors ors a happy vacation He will start starton on his own delayed delayed holiday within a aday aday day or two I 1 move that the senate do no now nay adjourn sine sine- die rumbled the deep voice of Senate Majority Leaflet Rob Rob- Robinson Robinson inson after th the presidents president's ent's letter had been seen read It Wa was 3 a. a m. m Nine minutes later Speaker Rainey banged his lis gavel down forthe the last time in inthe inthe the he House and the thc show was over there too A mere 30 was the center of f dispute which k kept pt congress in session from Saturday until today Compared with other sums which this his congress juggled the amount was small mall But it affected war veterans aM hd thereby attained tremendous political political po po- significance The argument originated In the act approved late in March authorizing President Roosevelt to effect unlimited ed d economies economics He soon ordered veterans veterans' veterans veterans' veterans veterans' vet vet- erans' erans compensation clipped some 42 from th the figure attained by the thc former soldiers in n the lush boom days MANY PROTESTS Protest compelled the administration tion ion to modify the reduction When the independent offices bill containing the veterans' veterans appropriation reached the house there was a rebellion which compelled the administration to give w way again The senate senat demanded still more A final administration compromise compro mise eased the drastic regulations which had virtually removed Spanish Spanish- American war veterans from the penIon pen pen- Ion aba rolls President Roosevelt stood pat paton on those hose concessions which curtailed the reductions by about But the lie senate with the aid of oC 19 bolting boIling Democrats defied his veto threats Wednesday night and voted more The house supported the resident t. t Finally last night the senate opposition opposition tion ion crumbled While angry debate roared oared on the floor telephone bells JIngled in the Democratic cloakroom as Mr Roosevelt called this and that senator to plead for votes House Democrats ts were Informed frankly informed by Majority Leader Byrnes that they must support the administration if they hey expected help in the elections next year Only eight Democratic senators opposed opposed op op- posed the president on the final veterans vet vet- erans roll call They were Bone of Washington Copeland of New York Ha Hayden den of Arizona Long and Overton of ot Louisiana Neel Neely of ot West Virginia Trammell of Florida and Wheeler of Montana There was no record vote ote in n the house HOUSE PLAYS FLAYS While the senate wrangled to the thelast thelast last ast the house played Representative tive Connery Cannery D. D Mass a slight agile fellow with a gift of play-acting play organized skits that pleased his colleagues colleagues' col col- leagues leagues' no little Representative OConnor O'Connor D. D N. N Y sang Break the News to Mother The whole house from rom time to time Joined in America and shouted wisecracks at Representative Represent Represent- McKeown D. D Okla Okia who was presiding at the time killing s session ion Torn Tom McKeown is descended descend d from Julius Caesar and the kings of Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land shouted a back backbencher The house was amused greatly by that hat and rewarded the shouter with witha a long loud laugh Gallery crowds laughed too pleased by the opportunity opportunity of joining in the fun of great statesmen There was wa-c no fun in the senate where fiery Senator Glass D D. Va roared in bitter exchange with Senator Sena Sena- tor lor Cutting Gutting R. R N. N M. M voiced soft Harvard graduate Cutting held the Congressional Record Record Rec Bee ord before him and arid one by one called callec the names and read the words oi ol Democratic senators who had sworn a week ago to die fighting for the he veterans but who now were tottering toward the administration camp amp Glass understood Cutting to charge him lim with having altered the Record to put a a. better face on some of his remarks The senator has made a remark about me that is Js both infamous and mend mendacious Glass protested The pair were calmed but after the senate enate vote Glass Glass' rose to a point of ot personal privilege and a d resumed the dispute He offered to match his war record and patriotism with that of ot Cutting He likened Cutting to Joab and himself himself him him- self to Abner 1 In the Biblical encounter in which which- Joab kisses Abner on the chee cheek and stabs him in the stomach Cutting smoothed his ruffled feelings explaining he had been stood Thus the encounter ended like the session in rather good humor despite hard words which had gone before |
