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Huge Task Confronts Congress With Mass Ot Proposed Legislation Awaiting Action (Continued From First Page. lican organization, in which Speaker Nicholas orth and Majority Leader John Q. Tilson of Connecticut are conspicuous, will evidently be as dominant as ever. No combination of forces which can be engineered there by Democratic or insurgent elements led by the Democratic leader, John Garner of Texas, seems likely to shake that organization which, according to some observers, is more potent than the one which in former days was under the sway of Joseph G. Cannon. The fact the two houses are at log- rheads over tariff and the further t that no one knows how long it will be before the tariff complications are settled, will not prevent the great committees at each end of the Capitol from getting down to business prac- tically as soon as the regular session opens To Rush Approgriation Bills. The task of passing the great annual | appropriation bills, involving billions of dollars, each year becomes more seri- ous and difficult and the House appro- priations committee, where falls the chief burden in the shaping of these bills, will lose no time in formulating the appropriation measures, reporting them and crowding them through the House. They will also be pressed in the Sen- ate as rapidly as the venerable Senator Francis E. Warren, chairman of the appropriations committee in that body, can press them. In spite of ths fact| that he is the last member of the Union Army of the Civil War in Congress and is long past 80, Senator Warren is| known as one of the most untiring and energetic workers in either branch at the Capitol. President Hoover, like President Cool- idge, will urge that economy be ob- served in relation to the budget, but in view of the expanding demands for appropriations, sueh as those for flood control and for farm relief, g with numerous others, it will not easy to keep down the expenditures. Financial Crash Complicates Matters. It is out of the ordinary for tax re- vision to be under way in Congress at the same time as tariff revision. This, however, may happen in the lar session. As has been well known for some time, the administration would like to see a reduction of the taxes in the coming session. So would most elements in Congress. Just what will be done about it, however, will depend on the outlook as to the Government's income for this fiscal year and subse- quent years. How far the recent crash in the stock market is going to upset calculations as to Government revenue and hence as to tax revision is Something which will be weighed carefully before any action is taken. In any event, the House ways and means committee will be called on to give thought and atten- tion to the matter, in conjunction with the best minds of the Treasury, headed by Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. Banking Problem Difficult. But, even taking into account tariff Tevision and tax revision, the outstand- ing subject before Congress is likely to be the financial and banking problem, as it has been intensified and accen- tuated by the recent crash in the stock market and the recent developments with relation to credit because of thé unprecedentéd demands for credit for speculative purposes. S0 broad and so comprehensive are the ramifications of this subject that it is impossible to de- scribe them in any brief compass. The Federal Reserve system is in- volved because of the relations of the banks in the reserve system to the lending of money for speculation. Banks outside the reserve system are in- volved. It has been repeatedly charged in recent months that the unprece- dented volume of brokers' loans was serv] to withdraw hcredlt from ordi- May Deal With Speculation, On top of a deal of speculation un- gfiedenud in this or any other coun- , there have come recently a series of crashes which have accomplished at least a partial deflation at the expense of vast numbers of people. In addi- tion to all the domestic phases of the matter, it has recently realized t:n. it has important international m"thue and other reasons, Con- gress is under strong pressure from mn;;nuunmra to ta’:;) urh thefl m.l:ly questions entering e lancial, banking, credit and speculative situa- tion and it will undoubtedly do so, in the opinion of able members of both House and Senate. How far it is goiny and what legislation will come out of it all is another matter. In fact, no one is in a position to do more than guess. It is taken as practically settled that both the Senate banking and currency ttee, of which Senator Peter Nor- k is irman, and the House bank- and currency committee, of which \esentative is T. McFadden is tions. * These promise to be ‘comorehensive. May Revise Federal Reserve Act. In the Senate committee there is strong sentiment for an inquiry under | t; the King resolution, which is unusually broad and covers a score of aspects of the banking, financial and speculative problem. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota has pending a resolution for an inquiry into speculation, but the King resolution is broader. ‘The proposed amendment to the fariff bill for a stock tax, which has been urged by Senator Carter Glass, is, of course, intimately related to the mposit!on. but even if Congress should ipose such a tax, which is doubtful, this would not halt an inquiry and eventual legislation along much more extended lines. As is well understood, financial au- thorities for some time" have regarded inevitable an overhauling of the Fed- eral Reserve act. Moreover, such bank- ing questions as branch, chain and group banking are looming up. It is not probable the regular session will bring about any comprehensive legis- lation for the overhauling of the coun- try’s financial structure. But there will be an investigation at both ends of the Oapitol which will tend to prepare the way to action before any great length of time. Country Banks Oppose Branches. Not at all out of the bounds of prob- ability is the creation of a strong joint commission like the Aldrich-Vreeland eommission to study the Nation's finan- cial problems with the same cornpre- hensiveness as the studles that preceded the establichment of the Federal Re- serve system. In this connection it may be re- marked that country bankers and small bankers generally are watching closely proposed banking leglslation, since many of them are opposed to branch banking and are apprehensive lest it be | brought about | Senator W. B. Pine of Oklahoma re- cently put into the record in the Senate an article expressing opposition to branch banking from the standpoint of the country bankers, citing nine objec- tions to it, one being that it would withdraw funds from the smaller com- munities into the channels of trade of the larger cities. Indications are that not a little dis- | cussion of branch banking will be heard in both houses this Winter, apart from such hearings as the banking | committees may have with respect to it and other aspects of banking and financial matters. Railroad Consolidation Plans Up, Of little less interest than banking, credit, flancial and stock market mat- ters in the regular session will be the consolidation of railroads, as proposed | in the Fess bill. | the Senate. | of adherence adopted by the Senate. Couzens of Michigan is chairman. The House committee on interstate com- merce will consider similar lation. In effect, it would repeal the law that requires the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to promulgate a general plan of consolidation for the country and would open the way to voluntary con- solidations, under certain restrictions. The measure is already stirring con- are opposing it and there is declared to be increasing opposition from shippers. However, it will afford a basis for dis- cussion of a great and important trans- portation subject. . Radio Inquiry Proposed. Radio legislation will be another im- portant question before Congress. Ef- forts will be made to pass the Couzens bill for a commission on communica- tions. It will meet opposition and will alss have powerful backing. Not to be overlooked in relation to this is the investigation which it to be carried on by the Senate interstate commerce com- mittee in the regular session under a retolution which the Senate already has adopted. ‘The resolution provides for an in- quiry. ints the relations between radio and other forms of communication on the one hand and transmission of power by wire and wireless. It means, in short, a study of rela- tions between radio, telephone, tele- graphs, cables and all kinds of wireless on the one hand and the power com- panies and affiliated interests on the other. The resolution was put through the Senate one day last June before hardly any one awoke to its importance. The committee . for some time has been making plans and working on pre- liminaries for the investigation. The General Electric Co.,, the American Telephone & Telegraph and various reat radio and power interests will be rawn into it. . May Increase River Appropriations. Of major importance in the regular session will be &mpoud leglislation in the interest of the development of the inland waterways. President Hoover has strongly declared himself in favor of such development. He did so in the campalgn and he has done so since. His recent utterances when the ceremonies were held to mark the com- emphasized his feeling in favor of de- velopment of the rivers and other in- land water foutes. The House rivers and harbors com- mittee will bring out a bill early in the regular séssion for an authorization of large sums to improve the inland water- ways. It may carry as much as §70,- 000,000 and not much less than that at_the minimum. Large appropriations are expected to be made under it. It is expected to comprehend a program for the comple- tion of the improvement of a number of important streams, including 'the Mississippl and Missouri, in the next four or five years. Deepening of Great Lakes harbors will be a feature. 1f Chairman S. Wallace Dempsey of the House rivers and harbors com- mittee has his way it will include ;ro- vision for deepening the New York State Canal. More for Gdod Roads. The deepening of the lakes harbors looks forward to linking the Great Lakes with the Atlantic either by the 8t. Lawrence route or the all-American route or both in the reasonably near future. ‘While is turning its atten- tion this Winter to inland water routes and the development of traffic thereon, it will also give attention to good roads. Indications ‘are the authorization for Federal ald to highways will be in- creased from $75,000,000 a year to $125,- 000,000. Already Chairman C. C. Dowell of the House roads committee and lnd:nm' in Ir:lhe roads movement in Government circles are conferring and looking f - pines, has of independence for the islands in the course of the extra session. Both id{::rs’e e.hnd Se‘n’ncé:x hnve‘ so0 far turned e restriction of imports from the thm;tenes and the S‘::mte has voted down an independence proposal. However, the Senate committee on territories early in the regular session will take up the proposal of independ- ence, hold hearings and thresh the matter out. This Winter, therefore, may find Congress saying one thing or the other definitely and finally with respect to the future of the islands. On the face of things it does not seem probable Congress will vote for independence of the - Philippines, but there is no denying the fact that com- petition of imports from the islands with cemuam pmdugla of the United e support {0r in- ence. &lcunlon in the extra has demonstrated this. mflblum to Command Attention. 1 hibition, of course, will comma: much attention. The Sheppard. bil | which plans to make the man or woman who purchases liquor a criminal will cause much debate. Extreme drys will try to forcs it through. Bigger appro- grllwyna than ever for prohibition en- forcement, will be sought and probably obtained. Should th: w Enforcement Commission arrive at any recommenda- in the course of Jn regular ses- ::o:o:h'ue vln:ld‘hz: "c:mmered. but it fl’uAI:,u;xnkll later. it ough farm relief legislation has been passed it will be neoem'ry to make de session troversy. Rallroad labor organizations | pletion of the Ohio River development | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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Much will depend on developments in the London naval conference. ‘While & multitude of domestic ques- tions will be at the forefront in the regular session, international subjects of great moment will not be lacking. Once more the advocates of the World Court hope to have that topic up in They hope to have the Senate ratify and consent to the pro- posal to have this country adhere to the court under the Root formula, which is intendsd to make unnecessary reservation 5 of the original resolution Eyes on London Conference. ‘Whether an agreement will come out of the London naval conference which will be submitted to the Senate is something yet to be determined. 1t is, of course, one of the possibilities, The Cuban question may flare up again at any time. And there is the question of Russian recognition Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, is waiting only for a favor- able opportunity to press this once more. 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