Show IMPORTANT ANT BILLS PENDING BEFORE CONGRESS BY CARTER FIELD V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 16 President Roosevelt has practically no must list of legislation for Congress if one excepts the tax bill True he is back of the Nor Nor- bill ris-bill which would lend 00 a year for two years and then a year for eight more for or the development of or rural elec dec trie ti-ic projects But this has already passed assed the Senate and it is the Senate where the time element is important The House could ar arrange arrange are ar- range to adjourn a week from any Tuesday and not even have to hurry hurry hur hur- ry 7 its normal speed But there are pending a great many measures which are of enormous enor enor- mo s. s import importance nce especially to business men manufacturers shippers shippers shippers ship ship- pers and tax producers generally Interest in th them m for the thi the last last t term ten n days has been almost entirely submerged submerged submerged sub sub- merged by the greater importance of the tax bill the one must measure But there they are and some of them will wilt probably pass For instance there is the Pat Robinson man man b bill l. l It aims alms at preventing pre pro venting manufacturers ers from giving big customers what the Federal Federa Trade Commission regards as an unfairly nf irly large discount The two shining targets of course are the chain stores and the mall mail order houses louses houses I Then there is the 30 hour 30 hour bill We Ve have not heard much talk about bout that It Is not so satisfactory to union labor leaders as the they would have you believe It tends tend too much in the direction of giving ing the workers what they wan want Instead of having their labor leaders lead ers era win those things for lor them Copyright 1936 |