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Show Merry-Co-Rdund By DREW PEARSOW and ROBERT . ALLEN WASHINGTON You can disregard all th talk of keeping congress in session through th summer. Congressional and administration Insider In-sider bave secretly set the machinery in motion for a wind-up around July II. That will mean shelving some major controversial contro-versial issues, but both groups are in complete accord on this. Capitol Hill' chieftain are very weary of the dawdling legislative grind and want to go home, while the administration is Just as anxious to get congress off its neck. The president has had several private talks with key legislator on itrategy to speed up adjournment. As tentatively agreed upon, this is th program: 1. Shelve all neutrality legislation, including renewal of the cash-and-carry provision which expired May 1. 2. Same dose to proposals for amending the Wsgner labor dispute act 3. Slam th gates on new farm relief legislation, legis-lation, particularly th very controversial cost-of-production scheme which isjbeiruj pushed by farm-belt senator. 4. Confine changes In th pension systems to th few amendments worked out by the house ways and mean committee, and block effort ef-fort to bring up th Townsend and general welfare plans. 5. Confine tax legislation to routine renewal of the various excise taxes that expire this year. With the exception of neutrality and taxation, taxa-tion, this program probably will encounter little opposition. And even on the two exception the dissent la likely to be mostly talk. Outside of a few zealots, such as Senator Hiram Johnson on neutrality and Senator Pat Harrison on tax revision, there is no real pressure pres-sure in congress for action on either matter. Most of the member of the ways and means committee, where tax legislation must originate, are cold to tackling taxes at this late date. In fact the only two ardent enthusiasts are Harrison Har-rison and Secretary Morgenthau. who en this ia going directly counter to Roosevelt Unlike Morgenthau, Secretary Hull agree with th president on pigeon-holing neutrality. Th stste department boa has privately told congressional leader there I no need for new legislation and urged them to squelch it for thia year H. Style Bridge, New Hampshire presidential presiden-tial aspirant the other day put on an interesting exhibition of his senatorial prerogative. One of the oldest and strictest rule of th senate is the injunction against gallery visitor leaning with their arms on the wide balustrade overhanging the chamber. Escorting two women wo-men to seats in the front row of on of th galleries. Bridges plumped hi hefty arm on th balustrade and began pointing out various colleagues. A guard promptly dashed down th step and asked him to remove hi arms. "I'm Senator Bridges," was th haughty replv. Abashed, the guard reported to a superior, who returned with him. Bridge still had his arms on th balustrade and waa still pointing out senators. But the older guard mad no mov to admonish him. "That's Bridge, all right." h remarked. "I guess we'd better let it go. He' a senstor and if h want to break th rules, who ar w to stop him?" Senator Harry T. Byrd doesn't know It but he is directly responsible for a pro-New Deal book being published in New York. Inspiration for th book was a rip-snorting speech in which the Virginia senstor assailed Roosevelt's spending policies, and which was read by Mrs. Rodelle Sawyer. 24-year-old wife of a C C C typist and mother of two children. She sat down and wrote Byrd a 20-page letter let-ter answering his charge and denouncing him s a "Tory." Through pur luck, sh also sent a copy of the letter to Reserve Board Chairman Chair-man Marriner Ecclea. because he had been engaged in a running scrap with Byrd over spending. Eccles wss o Impressed with Mr. Sawyer's vigorous style and logic that the letter was sent to the publishing house, which promptly engaged en-gaged Mrs. Sawyer to write a book giving th housewife's slant on the New Deal. Distributed by United Featur Syndicate j |