Show 0 1 national topics interpreted k 41 by william bruckart national prees press building washington D C washington president roosevelt bas submitted to congress a list of the legislation he lays out work deems feces for congress ary to have passed before the present session adjourns he has divided it into two categories must land and desirable if congress enacts only tle tt e list of must legislation and passes over the other group of bills which the president considers desir able it t Is made to appear that the members ip of the house and senate la Js due to suffer some of the torrid temperature and the uncomfortable humidity of a washington summer the president sa d he must have legis leggis lation extending the national recovery administration providing social security eliminating public utility hold ing compan es increasing the loaning power of the home owners loan corpor atlon axtens on of the so called nul since taxes which expire by limitation of law on june SO 30 and revision of the banking lavi laws s in add tion the president made known that he would I 1 le ke to have en acted leg slat on to take the profits out of war what whatever eier that may mean lie ile previously had sent a message asling asking enactment of a law providing for expansion of the american merchant marine through the use of ship subsidies and he also desires to have en acted legislation setting up machinery ifor the settlement of labor disputes di this legislation Is in the congressional hopper in the form of a bill by senator wagner of new york the I 1 resident would like to have amendments to the agricultural a rl cultural ad act in order to eliminate some of the veal eal nesses which the AAA peo pie admit exist the airmail contract situation Is another matter with which mr roosevelt has been concerned seasoned observers recognize that this list of must legislation not to mention the desired legislation Is sut suf to keep congress grinding away tar far into the summer they recognize likewise that if the desired legislation later becomes of such concern that the president wants to place it on the preferred list as well the membership of i congress must be prepared to forego I 1 bummer summer trips of any kind since a good many members of congress lave laie grown tired of being called rubber stamps pets of for the adminis tra their own tion they naturally have turned atten alon to legh legislation which they think will be helpful to their own oiin balli bailiwicks wicks to themselves personally or from a party standpoint thus there have been promoted numerous pieces of legisla tion for which some individuals at least entertain enfer tain greater fervor than they do for measures that were drafted by pres dent roosevelt s official family and transmitted to congress as ad ministration legislation it Is the general observation that an in representative or senator frequently will go much further in fighting for legislation that Is his own brain child than for legislation placed before him on a silver platter euch such as administration proposals have been consequently individual or group measures are constantly clur bering up house and senate legislative calendars this Is a factor meaning delay for administration bills it Is to be remembered as has been reported in these columns that mr roosevelt Koo sevelt is unable to ward off cratl cism of some of his proposals in vreed eed there have been democratic cratl cismas and democratic opposition to a I 1 or lesser degree to all of the legislation he has proposed since con gross gress convened last january all ot of which Is by way of saying that con gress faces weeks of committee work and floor debate despite the fact that the bouse house democratic leaders still re tain rather solid control of a sufficient majority in the lower house of con eon digress gress to drive through any pet meas ures for the administration in the senate the situation Is decidedly dit dif ferent included in the legislation being fos by individual members Is the bill that would permit cabinet officers to appear on the floors of congress for questioning and explanation such as occurs ul aider der the british and french parliamentary systems the adminis dots does not want this bill it will have to exert some pressure to avoid passage the reason Is that the koose roose velt administration Is no longer one in which the cabinet Is dominant cab inet officers are only part of the scheme and it if congress wanted to in quire about the handling of relief money which it probably will desire it must talk with administrator hopkins mr hopkins Is not in the cabinet the same Is true of and to some extent to the AAA all although hough secretary wallace of the department of agrical ture theoretically Is a superior officer to administrator davis the ad Is definitely opposed to the passage of bonus legislation for the former sold ers sailors and marines and it looks like a presidential veto will be necessary there the same Is true of inflationary proposals of which there are many the situation Is one therefore in which mr roosevelt must be constantly on his guard to prevent action which he does not want as well a Es being fortified at all times with pressure to put through the legislation he has described as necessary thus it Is seen he is confronted with many complications which did not disturb him in the first two sessions of new deal congresses and these com eions mean a longer life for the cur rent session let us examine the status of the legislation which the president said must be passed the some must outlook Is something legislation le like this the extension of the national Pe recovery covery administration Is still far off senate hearings are just ended and tl e house Is still fur ther behind no action can be expect ed Inc either body for several weeks the present law expires june 16 recently mr roosevelt Hoo sevelt sent to con gress a very b ater message deloune ing public utility holding companies and demanding legislation eliminating them from our economic structure the houe committee considering this legis lation Is just winding up its hearings and the enate senate committee committee which will I 1 ave jur has taken no action at all it must be said that a hard fight Is in prospect it and when this 3 legislation reaches the stage of debate because investors in these corn com panics are not going to have their equi ties destroyed while they sit idly by these investors are doing more now than just making faces at congress and the volume of 0 letters which members are receiving in opposition to the hol hold d ing companies legislation transcends anything tl at ever has happened in the memory of this correspondent TI tie e banking legislation which mr roosevelt has proposed or which was proposed for him by governor eccles the new deal and radical governor of fhe the federal reserve board is faced with opposition equally as bitter and as well organized as that confronting the holding companies bill perhaps it can be said that opposition to the banking legislation is even stronger because in that fight the president will be opposed by senator carter glass of virginia who must be regard ed as the most virulent of all the dem in the tle senate the house bank ing committee has about done its job with hearings on this bill but the sen ate committee where the full force of the glass opposition will be felt has not even set a date for committee con the social bill about which mr has dune done much talking because it Is distinctly a reform meas ure has finally been redrafted in the house while senate leadership Is un able to get together on any policy respecting it some senators want to split up this bill and pass the section provid ng for old age pensions allow ing the other parts of the bill to die a slow death the legislation to increase by 1750 1 the loaning power of the home owners loan corporation probably will get through the senate without much more ado the house passed the hi bl I 1 because it could not do otherwise with individual members realizing that there was a chance that some of this money would go into their particular districts included in this bill Is a line that promises a good many hun dred jobs for politicians and it Is nat ural that the party in power Is not going to overlook this possibility there remains on the must list then only the proposal to extend the nuisance taxes which expire at tho end of june it Is probable that the bulk of these levies will be accepted by congress as necessary 0 one cannot fall in tramping around washington these days to note the fre quent expressions about the concerning the out future look for the new deal and for prest dent roosevelt s personal political fu ture in fact some hard ob servers lately have been heard to say that mr roosevelt Is suffering from too much ballyhoo he ile was put up on a pedestal that made of him in the eyes of many persons something of a superman he himself Is regarded as having contributed to this condition by his many campaign promises some of which he has found absolutely ini practical as remedies in leading the country out of the morasses and on to a more satisfactory economic plain in truth the presidents president a own political colleagues have continued to depict him as an individual capable of things which no human can accomplish and this combination of circumstances Is declared by many keen minded persona persons as likely to bring it if indeed it has not already brought a definitely bad po lotical reaction react iod from the president a e standpoint it Is still fresh in the minds of men and women throughout the country how president hoover was over adver used as a superior person in an ad way mr hoover suffered from too much ballyhoo to an extent greater than any other man who has served as president with the bip exception of woodrow wilson ahei the depression came and the current turned against mr hoover he wa was utterly powerless with a recalcitrant congress on his hands and a dissat ls ib fled people mr hoover met the fate that must have been expected Q western newspaper union A A i J |