Show washington snapshots the new congressional agy ogy has made some rather peculiar things happen to the ne nc wage hour bill it used to be that at the start star of a session a legislative program could be handed to congress cong ress with the expectation that it would enact it without batting an eye and sometimes without dotting one either that true this session more and more members lare are beginning to insist that they must understand at least something about what they are voting on after some of the govern governments mentE highest ranking lawyers said I 1 it t be done within the constitution ution the new wage hour bill was hurriedly slapped together ll 11 one ona of the younger lethal lights now ordinarily since the bill deals with interstate commerce it would have been turned over I 1 i the chairmen of the senate and house committees created years ago for the special purpose of dealing with legislation affect affecting ing interstate inter commerce but under the guidance of sam raburn now democratic floo leader the house interstate commerce committee adopted a policy of scrutinizing closely major bills submitted to it sometimes it took days to decide whether a phrase should be in or out of a bill the senate c interstate conic commerce committee is headed b by Y senator wheeler of montana who also believes in considering legislation furthermore he is a loading leading opponent of the supreme court enlargement program p r 0 g r a r whether the latter factor had any influence no one can say although naturally there are rumors the fact remains that since the senate and house interstate commerce committees probably would be too slow the wage hour bill was not submitted to their ell ch men it went instead to t c chairmen of the senate and house labor committees railroading indicative of the attitude of the labor committees which sat ln in joint hearings on the bill to speed it was the fact that not a single member seriously questioned an assertion that thai prices would NOT rise if wages in factories were increased 15 per cent and hours cut 20 per cent true per rue part of tile the cost could be absorbed but any sound economist knows that when costs g gi ip prices must rise too or production must stop the reason given for the ass asser r jon ion that prices price would not rise vas aas that with higher wages and horter hours the morale of f work ars improves so much that they bork A ork harder and produce more chile they are at work that is rue up to a certain point bu imbody would contend that if ev r body went on a one hour da ind got the same pay not to mention Tien lion more prices would renai i stationery yet it is not much worse to figure on a sudden ut from an eigil eight to a one hour lay than to calculate a cut to a live or six hour day sew new ta tavea es congress is getting gelling busy try trying in 9 LO ia top stop up loopholes loop holes in the t tax ax laws nobody in washington questions the fact that there are arc loopholes and inequities but there ire are many who know why they exist for live five straight years now con congress alss has boon been asked at tile the last minute to rush through another tax bill one year it adopted as sound a graduated tax on corporation po ration income the next year i kicked it out as unjust it has made about as many changes as it has passed bils bil s so it is only natural that it should have hae left some loopholes sometime soon congress I 1 have to over the whole tax structure and when it does docs the little man had better watch out for he will catch it in the pocketbook in the end he will wil pay tin taxes whether directly or in directly |