Show the HOWE 1 IN WASHINGTON WALTER Senate to Move OR THE FIRST TIME lE in F FOR years the senate of ot the United States according to present plans will hold its sessions outside the Capitol building if and when it moves lock stock and barrel into the swanky walled marble-walled air- air conditioned senate caucus chamber in the senate office building about June 30 The occasion of ot this historic trek across the Capitol grounds is made necessary by the reconstruction of the roofs and the removal of the unsightly temporary steel girders and framework in both the house and senate chamb chambers rs This temporary construction was placed there as a safety measure when the roofs of the two wings threatened to collapse back in 1939 and 1940 During Daring that construction period period period pe pe- the house bouse did move out of the building and held its sessions In the ways was and means chamber In the house office building but the senate remained in the Capitol holding Its sessions in inthe inthe inthe the old supreme court chamber wW which h was vacated by that judicial body in 1935 upon the completion of the new supreme court building The present house chamber wing of ot the Capitol was completed and occupied by the lower body on December December December De De- De- De cember 16 1857 while the senate chamber was completed two years later and occupied for the first time by the senate on January 4 4 1859 The only other occasion when the congress held its sessions outside the Capitol building was after the burning of the original Capitol by bythe bythe bythe the British on August 24 1814 From that time until the new Capitol Capitol Capitol Cap Cap- itol building was ready for occupancy occupancy occupancy oc oc- oc- oc in 1819 Congress met in what was then Blodgett's hotel at Seventh and E streets and later ina in ina a building erected to house them on ona ona ona a portion of ot the site now occupied by the new supreme court building In the meantime the beautiful grounds immediately adjacent to the C Capitol pitol on both the house and senate sides resemble a construction construction construe tion Lion camp with high board walls surrounding temporary buildings and quarters for workers Tardy Budgets BUdgets BUdgets' During the Republican con trolled congress Democratic leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers belabored their Republican colleagues for failure to comply with the congressional reorganization tion act In setting up a legislative budget by February 15 required by the law And today Democratic leaders are smarting under Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican attacks for failure to do dothe dothe dothe the same thing As a matter of fact when the time set for agreeing on ona ona ona a legislative budget passed the senate extended the time to May 1 That date has come and gone and andas as ns yet there has been no budget fixed nor is there likely to be on one set Ways of Debate All sorts of extraneous matters creep into debates over appropriation tion bills In the floor debate on the post office appropriation measure measure measure meas meas- ure in the senate the two South Carolina senators Maybank and Johnston wanted to include some worth of cotton twine and the battle went on for some hours and many pages in iri the Congressional al Record Senator Maybank Maybank-Is Is it not a fact that the United States government government government govern govern- ment took a ok over the poor cotton farmer and sold it at a profit of Senator Taft Tart Ohio Ohio Obio Mr President If the senator will yield I will say that the government government government gov gov- never got the That was only the figure at which it was sold to foreign countries who never paid for It That was the net result of lend lease Mr Maybank But Maybank-But But the senator will agree as to the figure will he not Mr Taft Yes Taft Yes but we got no money for it We merely got in return return return re re- re- re turn credits that we canceled That Thatis is all we got for it Mr Baldwin Connecticut It It was a paper profit of ot the most sort was it not Mr Taft That Taft That is correct So the department of agriculture claim of a million dollar profit by the on price support for far cotton is knocked into a cocked hat No School Curbs In passage of the federal aid to schools legislation by the senate that body decided two fundamental I questions which have been moot ones for the past 30 years 1 that illiteracy is a national problem and II 2 that federal appropriations for schools does not necessarily mean I I federal control of schools I It has been proved definitely that federal aid to education should not be regarded as a levy against the people but as an investment that will yield Yield large returns I |