| Show COOLIDGE HEARS NE PLANS PlA S fOR flO D SESSION T Ten Day Meet of Congress Conj ConrI Con- Con rI j gross gress With Politics iX Barred Sou Sought S B By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE f WASHINGTON June 3 3 d Coolidge has just had sub sub- m to him hint an entirely new Pi plan plan for a special session of congress consT con con- sT gress ess to deal with the Mississippi f iJ cod od The plan a aJ ar J r G mated session to last not longer ten days and to be confined to relief and r rehabilitation tion tl r. r n measures The Tho suggestion originates with members c of If f the L delegation who have formally fo laid It before the White H House use Representative E E. K Kemp mp D Item Dem of the Sixth dis dis- district has Worked out the the- most proposal and and was given opportunity to elucidate it In det de- de t lall at the presidents president's desk disk A U lic feature of Representative h imps Kemps mp's pro Is that leaders of oot O both parties should agree in int t advance vance to ban politics at at the the flood session and devote it ex- ex x- x cJ to the tho business for W which the house and senate were I convened There would ln Ins particular according to the Kemp emp scheme be no effort to or- or either house of the Seven Seven- tl th congress In the lower branch a speaker pro tem tern would b ba e appointed while no jio commit commit- t s in either house would be needed as flood legislation b. b ba brought directly to the floor 1 15 each body NO ASSURANCE The Louisiana delegation which conferred with the president did mgt t. t come away with any any- assurance assur assur- ace ance I. I ce of oC his interest in its proposals members were deeply impressed im impressed impressed im- im pressed with Mr Coolidge's sym sym- p pathetic grasp of the southland's plight Representative Kemp told the president that the rehab iii ta- ta tion of people I presents problems p of such proportions that only congress congress' co could ld be expected to solve them The Tho waters already are receding receding ing log in ln a b. large part of the val val- ley Before many weeks the tho time will come comee when all an of the will be able to return to their hom homes s. s It is then Mr Kemp contends that the most difficult phase of the situation must be met Unless some means can be devised which will enable mable these people to get into production tire tae consequences will be nation nation- wide The plan Isto isto Is Isto to have party leaders agree ona on ona ona a rehabilitation policy polley and commit commit commit com com- mit themselves to limit the duration duration duration du du- du- du ration of the special session to toone toone toone one week or ten days at most The session would be for the sole purpose of f helping the people to get on on their their feet economically and would not consider flood control control control con con- legislation in any form Representative Representative Representative Rep Rep- Kemp urged the president president president dent to call can congress as soon as the foregoing assurances had been obtained NOVEL FEATURE of ot One of the novel features flood session session session ses ses- the Idea of a strictly sion of congress is that Senators- Senators elect William S. S Vare of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania and Frank rank L. L Smith of Illinois should be invited to stay at home They are ale of course en entitled entitled en- en titled to seek admission to e the senate at the tho next session of Congress Congress congress Con con- recognized on a allhands' allhands all allhands' allhands is gress but it hands hands' that if they did fio so at a special session a controversy be provoked key would immediately and amI all other business In indefinitely held up One of the adm administrations administration's session session ses ses- tion's objections to a special spocia sion slon before next winter is understood understood understood under under- stood to be the fear rear that Vare Vare- Smith affairs might frustrate the principal object of calling house and senate to Washington Representative Kemp on the theother theother theother other hand placed d much emphasis sis In his conversation with Pr President President Pres Pres- s- s ident Coolidge upon the necessity of ot securing rehabilitation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion lion while the country's attention Is focused on th-o th disaster The congressman holds that it might be fatal to delay and thus dull the interest of ot the nation in seeing seeIng seeIng see- see Ing that full fuH justice is done clone Representatives Representatives Rep Rep- s Riley J. J Wilson and Whitmell P P. Martin Dems of ot Louisiana joined in the demand for a special session It Is their opinion that congress should authorize au- au thorl o an appropriation of to be expended at the rate of 50 annually for re reconstruction reconstruction recon recon- on- on of levees highways and such other work as may be found feasible in connection with a new program of ot flood prevention Wilson Vilson and Mar Marthat Martin think that the crying need is liberalization liberalization tion of the farm loan act or the setting up of special credit machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery for the benefit of persons persons persons per per- sons who have lost their all and andare andare andare obtain credit are In inno no position to through existing channels Representatives Wilson and Martin Martin Martin Mar Mar- not tin favor an extra session limited in Its duration but which would merely give precedence to flood legislation e I |
