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Show :SWtTWeKSiflfflLlillH BLOC SHELVES WAGES DILL CI IIECTICDATTLE Recess- Nears With No Objectives Reached By CEORCB B. HOLMES WASHINGTON, Dec IS (INS) President Roosevelt's special session of congress was in a state of ruin and wreckage today. With Ml; thro working daye left bate the lead era plaa aeV Joiunmit far the holiday. M appeared tha ehrt-Bvd abertJv acoaloa weuld eeoemplhdl nowe af tha objectivee far which it waa called. Everthlng now matt go ovar an til tha regular eeaaion bafiaa arly In January after weeks at fuUla fighting, which baa reopened eld Damocratio wound and cauatd froth one. In hi meassgs summoning tha r luctant legislator back to Waeh-ington, Waeh-ington, tha praaidant Insisted apan action on four front. H wantad . waga-hour legislation, a farm bill, govarnmtntal reorganisation, and , raglonal planning legislation. Recalcitrant aouthara Democrat burlad waga-bour legislation last' night In tha bittaraat sectional war-fart war-fart Capitol hiU ha wHnaaaad (lae reconstruction days. . Tha senat pasted a crop caotrai ' bill, It la true, but It U laoetietialy ... eailad "tha MU that aobady kaawa, and probably wtli prove unaceepts-bla unaceepts-bla to tha boo, which ha passed an antlrtly difftrtnt measure. Tbara 1 no chanc of conference action In tha few ramaining day. Thia meant that ultimately, aom tima nasi ytar, an antlrtly atw Mil will hav to ba writun In eonler-tne eonler-tne and prattnttd to both ebam-bar ebam-bar for approval Gone, ar vtr-tuaily vtr-tuaily gona, la tha prospect of agri-lOeattnued agri-lOeattnued ea Pari Twe Co4uw Trivel REVOLT WRECKS EXTRAJESSION CCoatlnoatf from Pac Ontl cultural legislation In advance of next year's planting, which waa one of the points Mr. Roosevelt Insisted upon. Score Is BlaMk As tot governmental reorganisation reorganisa-tion and regional planning, the remaining points of Mr. Roosevelt's program Jor the sesslontJhey were not even tauten up for consideration. considera-tion. Congress, in fact, has completed action on only one measure. Unless a miracle occurs In the next few days, the single achievement of this How Utahns Voted How I tab's congressional delegation dele-gation voted en farm and wage-bour wage-bour legislation: Senator Elbert O. Thomas voted with the majority In senate pas-amre pas-amre of the farm bill. Senator William H. King voted against the measure. Repreeentatlvee Abe Murdock and I. Will Robinson voted with the minority when the house recommitted re-committed the wage-hour bill to committee, apelllng its defeat In the special session. r'"' "' K tht members voting themselves a Christmas bonus fh ths form of a $223,000 mileage mile-age appropriation, which, aave in a few cases, will not bs used to pay the fares of members going home between the sessions. In whatever direction ths new I deal chieftain turned today, it looked like a cheerless Christmas. The most overwhelmingly Democratic Demo-cratic congress In history Is split into snarling factions and embittered embit-tered factional blocs. Situation b Tense The gravest International situation situa-tion that tha country haa faced since World War days haa arisen over Japan's considered ruthleas-ness ruthleas-ness in the far asst. culminating in the sinking of the U. S. gunboat Panay. Unemployment Is increasing, as are the relief rolls, and the spiral of business, usually upward at this time of year. Is still downward. The situation on Capitol hill Is almost without parallel; congrees has taken the ball away from President Roosevelt, but it Is becoming be-coming Increasingly apparent it doesn't know which way to run with It except in all directions. House defeat of the wage-hour bill amid tumult and shouting last night waa a bitter pill for ths administration administra-tion to swallow. Its defeat was accomplished ac-complished entirely by the southern Democrats, who combined with the Republican minority to send it back to committee, despite the fact the Democratic platform of 1938 pledged enactment of a minimum wage and a maximum hour law. Party Split The Issue split the Democratic party asunder in several directions. It divided the north and south in an extremely bitter sectional struggle. It spilt ths Democrats from the large industrial centers and the Democrats from the agricultural regions. As result of their defeat, de-feat, ths Industrial Democrats were openly threatening today to sabotage sabo-tage the farm bill when it comes up. "Get even with the cotton boys, was the attitude of the big city Democrats today. The outlook would not bs so gloomy ,if there appeared any chance that the new session, beginning begin-ning January S, would be In any better mood to legislats; but the fights of this futile session, and of the last, will be carried over into January, there to collide with the budget, relief, and the regular appropriation ap-propriation bills. There wss little of the Yuletide spirit around the White House today. |