Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1935, Page 6

GUFFEY COAL BILL T0 BE HELD OVER Word Passed Around New Deal Leaders Will Abandon It This Session. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. With the last of the President's “must” measures—the Guffey-Snyder bill to stabilize the bituminous coal Industry—revised for the sixth time, scheduled by the Speaker to come | up in the House tomorrow, and leaders | determined to have it voted on Satur- day, to hasten plans for adjournment, word spread around today that the New Deal leaders are to abandon this legislation for the present session. Despite this, however, John L. Lewls, president of the United Mine ‘Workers of America, after a confer- ence with President Roosevelt and | Secretary of Labor Perkins, predicted enactment of the measure by Mon- day. The measure had been termed “a | baby N. R. A" and its passage was | demanded a month ago by Mr. Roose- velt despite fear it was unconstitu: tional. Lewis made his statement on the heels of an accusation by House of Representatives Republicans that the legislation will lead to a “centralized, bureaucratic autocracy under execu- tive control.” Prominent Democrats in both the| House and Senate are responsible for | the report that the bill will be cast in the discard in the Senate if it is passed by the House. Republican opposition heads up with | & charge, signed by six of the seven | minority members of the Ways and Means Committee, which reported the bill by a 12-to-11 vote, that President Roosevelt is seeking to change the American form of Government. The six signers are: Representatives Tread- way, Massachusetts; Bachrach, New Jersey; Crowther, New York; Knut- son, Minnesota; Reed, New York, and | Woodruff, Michigan. The only other Republican member of the committee | voted with 11 of the 18 Democratic members to favorably report the bill. Disregard for Constitution. “In his advocacy of this legisla~ ton,” the statement says, “the Presi- dent continues to show his apparent disregard for constitutional limita- tions and his desire to institute funda- mental changes in our governmental system, looking to the establishment of a centralized bureaucratic au- tocracy under executive control.” They emphasize that this “can be reached only by the creation of an | unjust and unwarranted antagonism | " to the Constitution and the Supreme Court to the point where the people ! would countenance the necessary | changes in the fundamental law. We | will not be put in the position of | having helped arouse such antagonism | by forcing upon the latter (Supreme | Court) the entire responsibility for declaring this legislation unconstitu- | tional.” In spite of the reports that ‘the New Deal chiefs are to discard this legislation, Representative Patrick J. Boland, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, the majority “whip” and most active advocate of the bill in the House, sald today that his best information from this regional whip organization is that the bill will pass the House by 20 to 30 votes, and that assurances have been given by Senate leaders that it will be promptly acted upon in the Senate. He characterized the last-day reports as “propaganda” against the bill. It is generally con- ceded that if the bill passes in the House it will be by a very scant margin. Lewis Drafted Measure. This legislation was originally drafted by Lewis, which it is claimed would be invested with revolutionary powers over all mine labor by pm-J visions of this measure. It would set up & new national bituminous coal commission to enforce a code for wage and hour standards, trade practices and price fixing—like that under the N.R.A. A tax would be levied against all coal, but substantial rebates ale lowed to those operators who abide by the code. A prominent House Democrat said today that he is reliably informed || that the Senate leaders will not allow the bill to reach the Senate floor. “The only effect of our passing the bill,” he stressed, “would be to put & number | of House members ‘on the spot.” I, | for one, am tired of that,” he said. A similar statement was also made by a New Deal leader in the Senate, who is opposed to the Guffey bill, but declined to let his name be used. Doughton to Seek Passage. Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee insists that he is going forward with plans to have the bill passed by the House this week. 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