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Show v : ; A mm CAPITAL h -henry U worshaKfmfi YOUR CONGRESfAM lJiLiis-irjlaiil The most definite and stgnifi-ant stgnifi-ant trend in legislative circles today to-day is the growing disaffection and impatience in congress over administration ad-ministration policies. This includes not only t ie foreign policies, upon 'and rgainst American inuu -ivy." 'Adams saiil defense appropriations .hills already parsed would keep all j of the industries of this country 'presently manufacturing munitions I busy until the end of 1!M:. wli;'.i there has been a dearth of facts and information, but also anti-strike and. price control developments develop-ments as well as proposals for additional tax levies and ever-mounting ever-mounting demands fo greater appropriations ap-propriations with "national de fense" labels. This hostility and unrest are the most apparent among Democratic administration programs without some assurance as to their ultimate objectives. The vexatious priorities system is not becoming less confusing, as observers obser-vers realize the destructive repercussions reper-cussions of forcing thousands of small business concerns materially to 'curtail operations, if not to close down completely. Reports filed by two senate com-mittiees com-mittiees on November 17, blamed government policies rather than a basic shortage of strategic materials, materi-als, for the threatened priority destruction de-struction of the nation's smalt uusl-ness. uusl-ness. After receiving the reports, the senate passed a resolution by Senator O'Mahoney, calling upon the office of production manage- j ment for a full report on its ad-j ministration of the priorities act i and its plan for delieving the hardships hard-ships which the priorities and allocations al-locations systems are inflicting upon small manufacturing enterprises. enter-prises. The special committee investigating investiga-ting the preparedness pvegram, headed by Senator Truman of Missouri, reported that it would take less than two percent or th" supply of strategic materials to continue 130,000 manfacturers, employing em-ploying less than 20 persons each, in business during the first half of 1942. The committee recommended recommend-ed that strategic materials be al- I .'ocated to eliminate hardship among! such companies, and criticr- , r.ed the "policy of superimposing defense production in huge new ijlants upon the existing . civilian economy", rather than a widespread wide-spread distribution of contracts and sub-contracts among existing manufacturing facilities. Although, since July 1, 1011, about $59,000,000 have Leen appropriated appro-priated or authorized by congress |