Washington, April 5. ? It us-;
ually takes a new Congress about !
three mopths to get "shaken1
down" so that it) can tackle mat-;
Ters of legislation with a clear i
understanding of what they afe ull '
about and what chance there^ls of
getting action.
This 76th Congress is no excep
tion. Here it* is April and the boys
on Capitol Hill have been in Wash
ington since the first of January,!
learning the ropes and getting ac- ;
quainted with each other's points
of view. Now it looks as if thay i
were about ready to get down to
serious business.
To be sure, the departmental re
organization bill was serious busi-1
ness, but not as serious as the
President's opponents made it out|
to be. The major points on which !
the reorganization bill was beaten |
last year have been taken out of
the measure as it now stands.
While it gives the President
wide powers to regroup and con
solidate Government bureaus and
offices and to go as far as political 1
expediency will permit in lopping
off useless jobs, the powers grant- ;
ed him are not as great as those
which President Hoover asked for ,
and the House voted to give hiin
in his last two years in office. And
before Mr. Hoover, Presidents
Coolidge, Wilson and Taft had
asked for the same authority toj
introduce business-like met-hods
into the administration of Govern- :
inent.
The big job which Congress is1
now about to tackle is taxation.
Here the President lent a helping
hand by agreeing to accept the
proposal t<o amend the Social Se- !
curity Act so that the increased ]
raxes for old age retirement will '
not go into effect next year, as pro
vided under the law as it stands.
Mr. Roosevelt and the Treasury
s.re also agreeable to the elimina
tion of the somewhat fictitious
'reserve fund" for Social Security,
vfhich has been widely criticized ?s j
lending toward inflation. There
seems little likelihood now that i
;he Social Security act will be!
firoadened to take in classes of
workers not now covered bv it.
Scrap Over Taxes
The real scrap in Congress will
lie over methods of changing the1
rax system so that it will still pro-l
luce enough revenue to run the|
government yet relieve busiuoss1
;>nd capital of the burdens which j
industrialist*! and economists say!
have been preventing expansion ?t
business and the creation of new I
Jobs for workers. >.
Details have not been made pub
lic of the Treasury's plan, which
has been carefully worked out by
experts, but in general it proposes
to "broaden 'the tax base" by in
cluding in the income tax millions
of persons who are now not directi
ly taxed, providing for collection
of such taxes at the source, by de- '
ductions from payrolls, scrapping
al the present various forms of
taxes on corporate business aud
substituting a single graduated
tax oil corporations witih special
preference to small businesses. 4
Part of the plan is to abolish all
the excise and "nuisance" taxes, j
but here the problem of what to
substitute for them arises, and is j
likely to cause a row.
There is every expecljjjion that
Congress will pass the Kankiu bill !
providing pensions of $40 a month I
for every veteran who wore a uni- \
form for 90 days or more during!
the World War. whether he ever]
got farther than a training camp
or not.
The only veterans' organization {
opposing the measure is the Amer
ican Veterans Association, whose:
spokesmen contend Oh at the total
cost to the taxpayers of the pro- '
posed pension plan will run to at
least 13 billion) dollars. There pro
bably will be some exciting debates
when the measure gets to the floor
of both houses, but t'he best-in
formed men on Capitol Hill con
cede the likelihood that the meas
ure will be passed.
Ask $1,000,000,000
Rack of the new Agricultural |
appropriation bill, the largest ever'
proposed to Congress, the Farm |
Lobby is solidly lined up. The bill j
calls for the expenditure of a trifle j
over a billion dollars in Uhe com- 1
ing year, which is almost 250,
millions more than the budget es
timates.
More than half of the amount is!
for soil conservation and other di-i
rect subsidies to farmers and an
additional 250 millions for "parity
payments." Even with t'he certain-!
ty of a bitter tight on the floor, the
general opinion is that there will \
be lip serious changes in the meas
ure.
The controversy over the fail-:
ure of Madam Perkins, Secretary;
of Labor, to order the deportation :
of Harry Bridges, the West Coast j
Communist labor leader who si!
not an American citizen, came to:
an end when Miss Perkins convin-!
eed the House committee that was
considering her impeachment that
she had no power under existing
laws to deport any alien merely
because he was a Communist, hut
only if he openly advocated the
overthrow of the (iovernment by
force.
Steps to remedy that situation
o keep your corn from "laying down on
the job," make sure that it is able to get
enough potash. Firing of the edges of the
leaves, lodged plants, poor yields, and chaffy
ears result when corn cannot get the potash
it needs. For every bushel of good quality
corn, the soil and fertilizer must supply at
least 1 lb. of potash.
, If you did not apply enough of this plant
food in your fertilizer at planting, there is still
time to add more. Successful growers use
100-200 lbs. of a nitrogen-potash side-dresser
per acre at the second cultivation or when the
corn is about knee high.
Consult your county agent or experiment
station about the fertility of your soils. See
your fertilizer dealer about a nitrogen-potash
side-dresser for higher
yields and better quality
corn. You will be surprised
how little the extra potash
costs.
Write for Our Free
Booklet "Grow
Moter Corn. "
were taken when the House, by
unanimous voDe, passed a law pro
viding for the deportation of any
alien who advocated any changes
of any kind or by any means in
the set-up of the United States
Government. That is the privilege
of citizens, but not of foreigners.
Douxlu* liiop|HiMii
There has been surprisingly lit
t-le opposition expressed to the
Presidnt's appointment of William
O. Dpuglas to the vacancy on the
Supreme Court caused by Justice
Brandeis' resignation.
Only 40. Mr.. Douglas is the
youngest man appointed to the
High Court in more than a hund
red years.
The hottest bit of political gos
sip heard around Washington late-'
ly is that Vice-President Garner j
has authorized his friends to start
rounding up delegates to the 1940;
Democratic National Convention
for himself as President. Latest
reports are that he already has Sub
delegates "in the bag."
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Man (building new house) ?
Well, when my wife leaves in the
summer, she's generally gone for
a month.
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