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Show ?, National Topics Interpreted Jl jlffm 7 by William Bruckart HMM Jtfitlonal Press Building Washington, D. C. g?3CTfT Vashir.gton President Roosevelt 3 submitted to congress a list of the legislation ays Out Work he deems neces- r sarv to have or Congress M present session adjourns. He s divided It into two categories ,ust" and desirable. If congress acts only the list of "must" legls-lon legls-lon and passes over the other DUp of bills which the President : nslders desirable, it Is made to ' pear that the membership of the 'use and senate is due to suffer -Jme of the torrid temperature and e uncomfortable humidity of a ' ashington summer. The President Id he must have legislation ex-fading ex-fading the National Recovery ad-'" ad-'" nlstratlon, providing social secur-S, secur-S, eliminating public utility hold-g' hold-g' companies, Increasing the loan-g loan-g power of the Home Owners Loan ,:rporatlon, extension of the soiled so-iled nuisance taxes which expire j limitation of law on June 30, and S-islon of the banking laws. ""In addition, the President made Fiiown that he would like to have 'iacted legislation to take the prof- out of war, whatever that may wean. He previously had sent a Message asking enactment of a law -ovldlng for expansion of the r.nerican merchant marine through ji e use of ship subsidies, and he '"so desires to have enacted legislation legis-lation setting up machinery for the ttlement of labor disputes. This ..glslation Is in the congressional -ipper In the form of a bill by Sen- or Wagner, of New York. ?The President would like to have nendments to the agricultural ad-vstracnt ad-vstracnt act In order to eliminate ?me of the weaknesses which the AA people admit exist. The air-sail air-sail contract situation Is another fatter with which Mr. Roosevelt ' is been concerned. Seasoned observers recognize that .is list of "must" legislation, not mention the desired legislation, Is ifflelent to keep congress grinding vay far into the summer. They cognize likewise that If the de-red de-red legislation later becomes of -ich concern that the President ""ants to place It on the preferred rjit as well, the membership of confess con-fess must be prepared to forego imnier trips of any kind. e ... e 'Since a good many members of ingress have grown tired of being ti called rubber 15;. Pets of stamps for the ad-11 ad-11 Their Own ministration, they Hi naturally have ttrned attention to legislation which r.ey think will he helpful to their ii:vn bailiwicks, to themselves personally per-sonally or from a party standpoint. jfliiis there have been promoted iimerous pieces of legislation for j hlch some individuals, at least, en-f en-f rtaln greater fervor than they do sir measures that were drafted by ., resident Roosevelt's official family j,.id transmitted to congress as ad-, ad-, Inlstration legislation. It Is the j.jneral observation that an lndivld- il, representative, or senator fre-riiently fre-riiently will go much further In jlitlng for legislation that Is his lvn brain child than for legislation laced before him on a silver plater plat-er Buch as administration proposes propos-es have been. Consequently, Individual Indi-vidual or group measures are con- antly cluttering up house and sen-f;e sen-f;e legislative calendars. This Is a jctor meaning delay for administration adminis-tration bills. It Is to he remembered, as has cn reported In these columns, .iat Mr. Roosevelt Is unable to rd off criticism of some of his ;ropnsa!s. Indeed, there have been ,'emocratlc criticisms and Denio-'atlc Denio-'atlc opposition to a greater or Nsser degree to all of the leglsla-on leglsla-on he has proposed since congress mvened last January. All of which by way of saying that congress ices weeks of committee work and fior debate despite the fact that 'ie house Democratic leaders still ?taln rather solid control of a sutll-cnt sutll-cnt majority In the lower house ! congress to drive through any measures for the administration, i the senate the situation Is de-dedly de-dedly different. Included In the legislation being stored by Individual members Is hill that would permit cabinet 1'icors to appear on the tloors of yngress for questioning and ex :unatlon, swli as occurs under the Vitlsh and French parliamentary stems. The administration doe's t want this bill. It will have to :ert some pressure to avoid pass re. The reason Is that the Hoose-i'lt Hoose-i'lt administration is no longer one which the cabinet Is dominant, ibinet officers are only part of the heme, and If congress wanted to quire about the handling of relief ney, it must talk with Mr. Hop ns. Mr. Hopkins Is not iu the .bluet. The same Is true of Nit A id to some extent to the AAA, al-ongh al-ongh Secretary Wallace of the apartment of Agriculture theoret-a"y theoret-a"y Is a superior officer to Admtn-trutor Admtn-trutor Davis. The administrator , definitely opposed to the passage bonus legislation for the former i soldiers, sailors and marines and It looks like a Presidential veto will lie necessary there. The same is true of inflationary proposals of which there are many. The situation situa-tion Is one, therefore, In which Mr. Koosevelt must be constantly on his guard to prevent action which lie does not want as well as being fortified forti-fied 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 complications compli-cations mean a longer life for the current session. ... Let us examine the status of the legislation which the President said must be passed. Some "Mast" The outlook Is Legislation something like this: The extension of the National Recovery Re-covery administration is still far off. Senate hearings are just ended and the house is still further behind. be-hind. No action can be expected In cither body for several weeks. The present law expires June 1C. Recently Mr. Roosevelt sent to congress a very bitter message denouncing de-nouncing public utility holding companies com-panies and demanding legislation eliminating them from our economic structure. The house committee considering con-sidering this legislation is just winding wind-ing up its hearings and the senate committee which will have jurisdiction jurisdic-tion has taken no action at all. It must be said that a hard fight Is In prospect if and when this legislation legisla-tion reaches the stage of debate because be-cause Investors In these companies are not going to have their equities destroyed while they sit idly by. These investors are doing more now than just making faces at congress con-gress and the volume of letters which members are receiving In opposition op-position to the holding companies legislation transcends anything that ever has happened in the memory of this correspondent. The banking legislation which Mr. Roosevelt has proposed, or which was proposed for him by Governor Eccles, the New Deal and radical governor of the federal reserve board Is faced with opposition equally equal-ly 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 regarded as the most, virulent of all the Democrats Demo-crats In the senate. The house banking bank-ing committee has about done its job with hearings on this bill but the senate committee where the full force of the Glass opposition will he felt has not even set a date for committee consideration. The social security bill about which Mr. Roosevelt has done much talking, because It Is distinctly a reform measure, has finally been redrafted In the house while senate leadership Is unable to get together on any policy respecting It. Some senators want to split up this bill and pass the section providing for old-age pensions, allowing the other parts of the bill to die a slow death. The legislation to Increase by $1,-750,000,000 $1,-750,000,000 the loaning power of the Home Owners Loair corporation probably will get through the senate sen-ate without much more ado. The house passed the bill because It could not do otherwise with individual indi-vidual members realizing that there was a chance that some of this money would go Into their particular particu-lar districts. There remains on the "must" list, then, only the proposal to extend the nuisance taxes which expire at the end of June. It Is probable that the bulk of these levies will be accepted ac-cepted by congress as necessary. ... One cannot fall. In tramping around Washington these days, to note the frequent About the expressions con-Future con-Future cernlng the outlook out-look of the New Deal and for President Roosevelt's personal political future. In fact, some hardhoiled observers lately have been heard to say that Mr.! Roosevelt Is suffering from too much ballyhoo. He was put up on a pedestal that made him In the eyes of many persons something of a superman. lie himself Is regarded regard-ed as having contributed to this condition by his many campaign promises, some of which he has found absolutely Impractical hs ' remedies In loading the country out! of the morasses and on to a more satisfactory economic plain. Ii truth, the President's own political colleagues have continued to depict him as an Individual capable of things which no human can accomplish ac-complish and this combination of circumstances Is declared by many keen-minded persons as likely to bring. If Indeed It has not already brought, a definitely bad political reaction from the President's standpoint stand-point I Q. Wewtera Nawipr Union, j |