Show a y V summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK IX 0 western newspaper union blon billion and a half wanted HARRY H ARRY HOPKINS chief ot of the and aubrey williams his deputy had a conference with the president and immediately aft erward the word SM went out unofficially that mr roosevelt contemplated oner offering congress a public a works program d calling tor for the e expenditure pend iture ot of to end the recession and revitalize business according to the plan this money U harry rry hopkins would be raised by bond issues and would be lent to states and cities without interest for periods as long as 50 years and it would be repayable in small amounts annually the president it was understood plans to push housing and slum clearance projects his immediate desire being to stimulate heavy industries williams has said a much greater emergency relief rebel fund than is available would soon be needed it if the new thousands of 0 unemployed were to be eared cared for by the government jesse jones whose reconstruction finance corporation has been authorized by congress to lend a billion and a halt half to almost anyone as jones pleases and pretty much on his own terms advised business men he would consider their loan applications individually the main thing this act does for business nien men said jones is to permit them to get loans from us for or longer terms kill reorganization bill A AT T SIX on the evening 0 ol 01 april 8 the president lost his fight for or passage of his government reorganization bill the house of representatives voted to to send the bill back to committee thus shelving it for this session ot of congress at least one hundred and eight democrats 83 republicans 6 progressives Progress ives an and d 2 farmer laborites labovites joined to carry the motion which sent the bill back to committee thus killing the bill voting against were democrats 2 progressives Progress ives and 3 farmer laborites labovites not one republican voted to save the bill the bill among other things would have authorized the president by executive order to transfer regroup ordinate coordinate co consolidate or abolish any ot of the bureaus agencies and divisions of 0 government certain independent boards and commissions were exempted closing pleas delivered la in dramatic fashion by speaker william B bankhead and majority leader saro sara rayburn failed ailed to swing enough votes to save the measure the tha two leaders placed the issue squarely on an the president A vote against the bill was a vote of 0 lack ol of confidence in the occupant ot of the white house they said in opposition to all this organized effort were representative john J oconnor new york democrat chairman ot of the rules committee co a group of other democratic leaders and the solid republican minority ty they argued that the nation was tearful fearful of the bills implications at a period in history when dictators abroad were growing increasingly tr Ir the congress should retrain refrain from passing a measure which teemed deemed to pave the way tor for a die dic tutorship ship in te afie united states they asserted the voting on the motion to recommit offered by representative john taber R N Y s started t at I 1 ed shortly after 6 p m As it progressed the tension was great the vote was tied again and again there was tumult when the last member had shouted his bis vote 4 railway court proposal HOW H OW to save the important railways from bankruptcy was the subject of conferences at the white house and of deep study by the president he rejected the suggestion t 0 n of an outright government sub ana and then adopted and offered for legislative action the plan of 0 creating re a special unit with judicial or quasi judicial powers to speed up voluntary reorganization ot of the vaa carriers and solve other of their problems the unit may take the form of a special court or a board within the interstate commerce commission it is suggested that congress provide that appe aLfrom the units decisions be direct to federal circuit courts of appeal the creation of the unit was recommended om in a report the president pit ordered prepared and which was made by three members of the interstate commerce commission these were chairman walter LT HI W splawn J B eastman and C F mahaffie Ma other things recommended were the establishment of a transportation board to study ordination coordination co and elimination of unnecessary cupl duplication ca the facilitation of loans modification of the bankruptcy act to aid reorganization proceedings and means tor for accomplishing consolidations help business measure W WHAT HAT sen pat harrison called the help business measure being the revenue bill as rewritten rew by his bis senate finance commit committee tee was submitted to the senate though harrison said he expected its speedy passage others believed at least a full week of debate would be necessary sen charles mcnary ot of ore oregon gon minority leader promised to sup support port the bill saying 1 I think it is a great improvement over the house version I 1 am in lavor favor ot of speeding its passage to help business plan to defend czechs czecho OSEPH PAUL PAUI french foreign minister has devised a plan for an alliance linking soviet russia poland and czechoslovakia with france for or the awk clale purpose ot of pro V teching the czechs czecho from aggression on the part ot of nazi 0 germany ge r many the krench french ambassadors drs to moscow and warsaw and the X Z ministers to prague and bucharest who had been summoned joseph paul pa ul to paris were in strutted ted by paul boncoeur to sound out the governments to which they were accredited regarding the proposal efforts to bring about agreement between betwee n the government of 0 czechoslovakia and konrad heinleins Hen leins su aeten german or nazi party broke down when premier hodza rejected the nazi demands for or elections among the nations germans to determine whether they should gain autonomy |