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Tired Legislators Take Leave of Capitol as First Session of 75th Congress Is Adjourned
One of the happiest persons last night when the Senate adjourned was Vice
President Garner, for it meant bigger and better fishing trips to him. With him
are Earl lv. Wiseman, state revenue commissioner of Arkansas (left) and Robert
T. Montgomery of the Veterans’ Administration.
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Speaker Bankhead of the House was all but mobbed by pages rvhen the House
session was called to a close. Here he is with pages hanging around his neck as they
joyously bade him farewell and wished him a happy vacation. —A p. Photos.
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The smiles of this trio, Representative Sam Rayburn, Speaker Bankhead and
Representative J. J. O’Connor, expressed the general jubilation in the Capitol after
the gavel fell for the last time on the first session of the Seventy-fifth Congress.
Their work done, the legislators are heading for home.
Thinks $500,000 Could Buy
Better Kind of Me
morial.
85- he Associa'eri Press.
President Roosevelt vetoed yesterday
a House bill authorizing a $500,000
appropriation for Federal co-operation
with the State of Oklahoma in con
struction of a permanent memorial to
Will Rogers, the humorist.
When Representative Nichols. Dem
ocrat, of Oklahoma, offered a motion
to pass the bill over the President's
veto, cries of "no. no." greeted his
motion and, after a brief consultation
with leaders on the floor, Nichols
Withdrew the motion.
The President pointed out the meas
ure failed to provide for the type of
the memorial and suggested Congress
at the next session reconsider the
form it "should properly assume.”
"I believe the Congress, upon further
deliberation." he said in a message to
the House, "could devise a more ap
propriate means of perpetuating Will
Rogers’ memory which, at the same
time, would be more in consonance
with sound Federal practice.
Rogers His Personal Friend.
"Will Rogers was a beloved figure
In our national life and I shared in
full measure the admiration and af
fection which his fellow* countrymen
everywhere accorded him. He was for
many long years my personal friend.
“Yet it is m large pan because of
mv personal friendship for him that
I am certain that if he could speak
he would be the last to desire the
enactment of Federal legislation of
this character.
■ “The act provides for the designing
and construction at Claremore, Okla.,
of a suitable permanent memorial to
his memory. The type of that me
morial is nowhere set forth in this act.
Children Remembered.
"I am sure, as one who knew the
depth of Will Rogers’ love for his
fellow man. that he would have de
sired a living memorial—something
that, would carry joy and gladness into
the hearts of those he left behind.
! "With these thoughts in mind I
ran not forebear to mention Will
Rogers’ deep love of children. You
and I who knew him through the
years are well aware of his devotion
to childhood. He contributed gener
ously to the care of handicapped chil
dren and in providing education for
boys and girls who could not afford it."
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CONGRESS ASSAILED
FOR ‘SPOILS’ STAND
Refusal to Abolish System Re
pudiation of Pledges, Miss
Wells Says.
Refusal of the Seventy-fifth Con
gress to abolish the spoils system
should prompt "a day of indignation,”
Miss Marguerite Wells, president of
the National League of Women Voters,
declared last night.
Miss WpIIs sent a message to all
State presidents asking them to con
vene the 55ft local leagues immediately
“to call public attention to such
flagrant repudiation of party pledges
and party responsibility.” She added:
“For 80 years both political parties
have been making platform pledges
against the spoils system. Eighty
years—and still we find that the
Seventy-fifth Congress has adjourned
with a record of almost consistent
contempt of the public's demand for
abolition of the patronage system.”
Mrs. George Gellhorn, national
chairman of the league's three-year
drive for the merit system in Govern
ment, added:
“The story of the Seventy-fifth Con
gress shows that it not only did not
extend the merit system, but that it
yan as fast as it could in the opposite
direction. •
Barkley going abroad
Br the Associated Press.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley an
nounced last night he would leave
Wednesday with five of his colleagues
for Paris to attend a conference * of
the Interparliamentary Union.
He will be accompanied by Senators
Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina;
Thomas, Democrat, of Utah: Minton,
Democrat, of Indiana; La Foliette,
Progressive, of Wisconsin, and White,
Republican, of Maine.
Barkley said the conference would
discuss “the basic problems of par
liamentary government.”
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Plan Moonlight’ Cruise.
A three-hour moonlight cruise for
the Public Works Administration Rec
reation Association is scheduled for
8:30 p.m. tomorrow aboard the steam
er City of Washington. Dancing and
refreshments are featured on the pro
graaa.
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Trips to Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, Paris and The
Hague Arranged.
By the Associated Press.
The Seventy-fifth Congress ar
ranged for a lot of its members to go
places. A variety of missions—critics
termed some of them “junkets"—will
take legislators to Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, Paris and The Hague.
Expenses of many of these itinerant
legislators will be defrayed by the
Government. At least *232.00 has been
appropriated for the activities.
One of the most pretentious “sur
veys” will take 24 Senators and Rep
resentatives—and their wives—to
Hawaii on a 28-day study of the ques
tion of statehood for the islands and
other matters. However, the terri
torial Legislature pays the bills in this
instance.
Delegate King of Hawaii, who en
gineered the trip, says it is reviving
"an old Hawaiian custom” whereby
members of Congress were afforded an
opportunity for first-hand informa
tion about the territory for which
they have to legislate.
Members of both House and Senate
Agriculture Committees are going back
to the gras-roots to holu hearings In
an effort to draft a satisfactory leg
islative farm program.
Other committee investigations
scheduled include one by the House
Veterans' Committee to inspect vet
erans' hospitals and homes at a cost
limited to *5,000; another by the
House Judiciary Committee to study
j operation of lower Federal courts and
one by a House Ways and Means Sub
committee to hold hearings in the
District of Columbia or elsewrhere on
internal revenue taxation.
The House also provided *10.000 for
members of the Interparliamenta'-y
Union to attend sessions of that body
at Paris next month.
Frequently, legislators pay their own
expenses on such trips, but often the
expenses are covered by inconspicuous
provisions in appropriation bills for
"examination of estimates in the
field."
' Whenever you see an item like
that,” said one influential member of
the House Appropriations Commit
tee, “that means a Junket.”
BILL SEEKS TO END
VIRGINIA PROJECT
Byrd Offers Measure to Stop
Work on Shenandoah Home
stead Plan.
Senator Harry P. Byrd of yirginia
carried his fight on the Resettlement
Administration to Congress yesterday
with introduction of a bill to require
discontinuance of the administration’s
Shenandoah homestead project in Vir
ginia.
The measure would require the Re
settlement Administration to do what
the Senator unsuccessfully sought to
persuade Secretary Wallace to do on
his own authority.
Byrd obtained reference of the
measure to his own committee, the
seleat Senate Committee on Govern
ment Reorganization.
Byrd has contended the project
represents ’’gross waste and extrava
gance," basing his argument on an
audit of the project made for his com
mittee by the General Accounting Of
fice.
The bill provides "that the Resettle
ment Administration is authorized
and directed to cease work on any
homestead buildings in the area known
as the Shenandoah homestead proj
ects in Virginia on which construc
tion work has not already been started,
and all moneys allocated or set aside
for the completion of such buildings
on which construction work has not
been started shall not be used for any
purpose, but shall be impounded and
returned to the Treasury and no fur
ther allocation of moneys shall be
made for the construction of any
such buildings.”
A general view of the Speaker's rostrum in the House of Representatives as tired legislators
gathered around Speaker Bankhead to sag gocd-bg■ —Underwood & Underwood Photo.
Major Events of Session
Tax Evasion, Railway Pension, $1,500,000,000
Relief Bill Among Important
Bills Passed.
B1 the Associated Press.
DAY-BY-DAY record of major
events in the Seventy-fifth
Congress' first session;
January 5—Convened.
Representative Bankhead, Democrat,
of Alabama, re-elected Speaker; Rep
resentative Rayburn, Democrat, of
Texas, majority leader; Representa
tive Snell, Republican, of New York,
minority leader.
January 6—President Roosevelt’s
message recommended extension of
emergency powers, farm legislation,
a neutrality law'. Government action
to prevent wide price fluctuations,
low-cost housing, farm tenancy aid.
January 7—Special neutrality reso
lution barring arms shipments to
Spain adopted.
January 12—President asked for
broad powers to reorganize the Gov
ernment.
January 22—Bill extending lending
powers of Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Farm Credit Administra
tion, Export-Import Bank passed.
February 5—President asked en
actment of legislation for reorganiza
tion of the judiciary, including power
for appointment of additional Su
preme Court justices if those over 70
did not retire. At that time six were
over that age.
February 8—Relief-deficiency ap
propriation of $950,000,000 approved.
February 10—President asked Con
gress to formulate a long-range policy
for readjustment of the agricultural
economy of the prairie States.
February 18—President recom
mended enactment of farm crop in
surance.
February 24—Wagner-Steagall low
rent housing and slum-clearance bill
introduced.
February 26—Bill allowing Supreme
Court justices over 70 to retire volun
tarily on full pay enacted; President’s
power to make reciprocal trade trea
ties extended for three years.
March 1—President asked enact
ment of sugar control legislation.
March *9—Hearings begun on Su
preme Court bill.
March 15—Former Treasury Secre
tary Mellon’s gift of *65,000,000 art
collection to Nation accepted.
April 8—GufTev-Vinson coal pro
duction control measure enacted.
April 15—House passed anti-lvnch
ing law.
April 23—Hearings on Supreme
Court bill ended.
April 29—Neutrality bill approved.
May 18—Senate Judiciary Commit
tee voted 10 to 8 against Supreme
Court bill.
May 24—President recommended
enactment of minimum wages and
maximum hours law.
June 1—President asked Congress
to remedy defects in tax laws which
he said permitted evasions of taxes.
June 3—President asked for re
gional and national planning along
lines of T. V. A.
June 14—Senate Judiciary report
condemned Supreme Court bill as
"futile and utterly dangerous aban
donment of constitutional principles.”
June 23—Pension bill for railway
workers enacted.
June 24—Nuisance taxes and 3
cent postage extended for two years;
life of Civilian Conservation Corps
extended for three years.
June 29—*1.500.000.000 relief bill
approved; Public Works Administra
tion extended for two years.
July 6—Senate began debate of
court bill.
July 14—Senator Joseph T. Robin
son, Democrat, of Arkansas, major
ity leader, died.
July 15—Bill authorizing three-year
expenditure of *85.000,000 to help ten
ant farmers acquire own farms
enacted.
July 21—Senator Alben W. Barkley,
Democrat, of Kentucky elected ma
jority leader.
July 22—Senate voted to recommit
Supreme Court bill to Judiciary
Committee.
July 31—Senate passed wage-hour
bill.
August 5—House passed sugar con
trol bill.
August 6—Senate passed low-cost
housing bill.
August 7—Senate approved bill for
reorganization of lower court proce
dure.
August 11—House approved lower
court bill, ending court fight for
session.
August 12 — President nominated
Senator Hugo Black, Democrat, of
Alabama to Supreme Court.
August 13—House passed Govern
ment reorganization bill; Senate
approved sugar control bill.
August 16—House passed “tax loop
holes" bill.
August 17—Senate confirmed Black's
nomination to Supreme Court.
August 19—Wage-hour bill smoth
ered in House Rules Committee. Mrs.
Dixie Graves, wife of Alabama Gov
ernor, nameij to Senate seat.
August 20—Sugar control bill, tax
avoidance bill sent to White House.
August 21—Congress sends low
cost housing, final general appropria
tion measures to White House—and
adjourns the session.
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THOMAS EARL CROSON
Funeral services for Thomas Earl
Croson, engine dispatcher at the
Washington Terminal for the last 30
years, who died Thursday in a local
hospital after a short illness, were held
yesterday afternoon in the S. H. Hines
funeral parlor, 2901 Fourteenth street.
Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery.
A native o/ Alexandria, Mr. Croson
lived at 533 Third street northeast.
Fate of Legislation
President's Request for Court Change and Reor
ganization of Bureaus Among
Bills Rejected.
By me Associates press.
MAJOR legislation asked by
President Roosevelt of the
Seventy-fifth Congress, and
its action:
The President: Asked judiciary re
organization. Including the power to
name six new Supreme Court justices
if incumbents over 70 did not retire.
The Congress: Approved revisions
of lower-court procedure, but author
ized no change in the Supreme Court. |
The President: Asked power to re- ;
shuffle Federal agencies, place quasi- t
judicial bodies under regular depart- 1
merits.
The Congress: Took no final action:
House approved reorganization plan, ;
but kept quasi-judicial agencies in
dependent; Senate deferred.
The President: Recommended en
actment of general farm legislation
The Congress: Pledged action next
session.
The President: Asked legislation for
crop insurance
The Congress: Took no final ac
tion: Senate approved, but House de
ferred.
The President: Asked *1.500,000,000
for relief.
The Congress: Granted it.
The President: Sought re-enactment
of sugar quota legislation.
The Congress: Passed legislation
containing provisions opposed by the
President.
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The President: Recommended con- i
mol of maximum hours and minimum
wages in industry.
The Congress: Took no final action: |
Senate approved 40-cents-an-hour, i
40-hours-a-week bill; House deferred
The President: Recommended re
gional planning agencies along the
lines of the Tennessee Valley Au
thority.
The Congress: Took no action.
The President: Asked housing and
slum-clearance legislation.
The Congress: Approved Federal
lid for State and municipal projects.
The President: Asked tax law re
vision to stop "evasions” and
'avoidances."
The Congress: Passed bill closing
major loopholes.
The President: Recommended help
ng farm tenants to become farm
owners.
The Congress: Authorized $85,
500,000 three-year program.
The President: Asked discretionary
Dowers concerning American neu
trality policy.
The Congress: Enacted legislation
{ranting slightly less discretion than
requested.
The President: Asked that Civilian
Conservation Corps be made perman
?nt Government agency.
The Congress: Extended corps' life
'or three years.
Thrown Into House.
Crashing into a pavement in Jo
hannesburg. South Africa, a cyclist
was thrown through the window of a
house and landed in a bed room.
7,725 CONFIRMED
Senate Approved That Number
Out of 7,780 Sent by President.
The Senate confirmed 7,725 nomi
nations out of 7.760 sent to it by
President Roosevelt during the ses
sion just ended.
Twenty treaties were ratified dur
ing the same period.
No action was taken on 12 nomina
tions, 14 were withdrawn by thf
President and the Senate rejected 9
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