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Show Facing Voters Too Much for Congressmen By BEKBEBT PLUMMEB WASHINGTON, Jan. M Perhaps Jack Garner sited up ths situs tion correctly when be said some members of the house were willing to give up their Christmas vacation and stick around Washington because they were afraid to go back borne. Few observers In tha capital, and among them soma of ths congressmen themselves, believe there was much use of the house sticking to business during the holiday season. The psychology psy-chology of the thing was good. Folks back home were assured that thelr representstives in Washington were st least trying to hslp them. But ss for speeding up leglslstlv action, many have their doubts. Actually, the impression Is gaining gain-ing ground here that aside from the big appropriation bills necessary to keep the government running for the next year, little else Is going to bb dons at this short session of congress. con-gress. The really ' important measures, many observers believe, will be held up until March 4 th when Roosevelt gels In snd probably finds It necessary to call an extra session. Tske the beer bill, for sxsmpls. Ths houss got busy snd shoved through thst highly controversial measure In short order. Then It went te the senate where no one would hazard a guess ss to wbst would become be-come of it The house now is about to start consideration of s farm relief bill embracing em-bracing tha famed voluntary domestic allotment plan. If It gets through thst body It must go to ths senate, where, under llberel rules en debate. It could easily be talked to death. Anyone familiar with the history of the last farm relief bill in the senate when senators talked for weeks snd weeks on the export debeunture plan can easily Imagine whet they could do on the sllotment plan. If ths senate follows such a course then all tha work that the house hes been doing will be mostly Just so much wasted effort. The senate, too, has leglslstlon ef Its awn coming up that promises more delsy. Within s short whlls eonslder-stion eonslder-stion of ths Olsss banking reform bill will be begun one of the really Important Im-portant pieces of leglslstlon before con frees. Thst bill m all probability wiU consume con-sume many days. It not weeks. It's highly doubtful whether It will be whipped into shape In Ume to pass ths house by March 4. Yet, la another sense, failure to get these measures enacted Into law by the close of the short session doesn't mean necessarily that It has all been wasted effort Senators snd rape seen tsUves by the time the extra session rolls sround will hsve had opportanity for careful study of these proposals. They then could get down to work snd put a Democratic program Into affect with a minimum loss of time. |