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Show Give Their Views on Fiscal Affairs at Public Hearing; : f " v .. ' . ,. ' x ' & BBBBBBsV'll.wsBSBfs KJvvSseaTeTeBTeBTssBBaBB " i BAY H. BUTLER... FOB RETAILERS "Policemen, firemen are assets CUS P. BACK MAN... CHAMBER OF COMMERCE "... f 75,000 reduction should IV made..." JT. A. KAHN7..FOR PUBUC LIBRARY . "Library is in need af improvements' M. H. HARRIS . . .FOB TAXT AYERS "Taxpayinf ability greatly impaired" Nation's Chief Gives Roads Fund Warning Congress Must Accept Responsibility for Any Increase, Roosevelt Says WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UP ) President Roosevelt in a letter let-ter to Chairman Wilburn Cartwright (D., Okla.) of the house roads committee warned congress today that it must "accept lull responsibility respon-sibility if it exceeds the budget in appropriating money for hirhwavs. "V AS CITY OFFICIALS LISTENED TO SPEAKERS AT BUDGET HEARING Left to right. City Recorder Ethel Macdonald, Commissioners William Murdoch and P. H. Goggin, Mayor E. B. Erwin, Commissioners John B. Mstheson and George D. Keyser Mr. Roosevelt sent ths letter to' Cortwright as authorltativo sources said he hss given congressional leaders general assurance that his legislative program, jettisoned in the special session, will be substantially substan-tially unaltered for the regular session. ses-sion. The letter, made public by Cart-wright, Cart-wright, was in reply to one In which Cartwright had disclosed that his roads committee was opposed to reduction re-duction in the federal fund for aiding aid-ing state highway construction as requested by the president In a special spe-cial message to congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 Ufy Members of congress left the administration's ad-ministration's special session program pro-gram up in ths air today and began a 12-day Christmas vacation that will defer enactment of major legislation leg-islation until the new year. The sudden adjournment at dusk yesterday, after ths senate passed ths housing bill 66 to 4. found none of President Roosevelt's recommendations recommen-dations actually written into law. Administration leaders, however, contended ths session had served a valuable purpose in finishing preliminary pre-liminary work on farm, housing and other administration measures. Final approval of these will be sought st ths regulsr session convening con-vening January i. Democratic Leader Berkley D, Ky ) asserted the session had (COBIHiu1 on Ptr Two) I Column One I HIGHWAY FUNDS VARNWHN r (Coatteued from Pes One) clipped from six weeks to two months off the regular 1938 session. ses-sion. The Republican leader, Senator Sena-tor McNsxy of Oregon, predicted the regular session would end In May "if the president doesn't keep ending new recommendations to cuiigiaa.' McNsxy, however, asserted - the special session was a failure and tha it "did not in any way carry out the program of the president" Leaders originally had Intended to wind up the five-week session today so that a joint conference committee could adjust differences - In the house and aenate housing billa before adjournment Some of the men appointed to the committee, commit-tee, however, were among the many members who already had gone home, neceaaitating postponement of final action until January. Before Conference Farm legislation, key item of the administration program, la In the same status as the housing legislation. legis-lation. Crop control bills paaaed both houses and now are before a conference committee which will neat lata next week. Barttley-predicteer heth the 4emt and housing measures would be aent to the White House almost Immediately Im-mediately after the regular aeaaion convenes. Another Roosevelt recommendationestablishment recommenda-tionestablishment of wage and hour standard was salted away in the house labor committee because be-cause of a house vote to recommit It "for further atudy." That revolt, led by southern Democrats and northern Republicans, was the greatest legislative setback for the administration since the court bill ' waa sidetracked last summer. Recommittal usually is tantamount tanta-mount to killing a measure, but . friends of the wage-hour bill expressed ex-pressed the hope It might be resurrected resur-rected by a new presidential request for enactment The wage-hour measure already has paased the senate. A fourth segment of the administration admin-istration program government reorganisationwas re-organisationwas slated by Berkley . todav fnr n t --iim, ItnmMtlatalv after debate on the antilynchinj bill which the senate has agree c to begin January ft. . Regional planning bills, also or the administration's special session program, are pending before house and senate commit tees. They would establish agencies similar to the Tennessee valley authority, with power to undertake dam construction construc-tion and similar projects. Leaders, however, expect paaaage of a modified modi-fied bill merely, setting up research laboratories. Toe Intricate Tax revision will be a paramount Issue early in the regular aeaaion. The widespread clamor for modification modifi-cation or repeal of taxes pressing anost heavily on business went unanswered un-answered In the special session ae--cause a bowse- tax subcommittee found the task too Intricate to finish fin-ish la hurry. The committee made long strides toward revamping the tax structure struc-ture ia a aeries of tentative discussions, dis-cussions, which Berkley predicted could be enacted by February 1. The principal change proposed would lift the tax on undistributed profits from corporations with income in-come up to $25,000 and would lighten light-en its load on firms with larger Incomes. In-comes. The smaller companies would be required, however, to pay higher normal Income tax. The capital gains tax also would be modified. |