Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1939 — Page 7

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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1039

10-DAY WARNING

OF HATCH BILL PETITION GIVEN

Rep. Dempsey Threatens to Force Action if Delay Continues.

By THOMAS LL. STORES Times Special Writer | WASHINGTON, May 26 —| Extraordinary procedure to force a House vote on the Hatch bill.which would prohibit volitical use of relief, was threatened today if the House Judiciary Committee, where the measure is bottled up, does not act soon, Rep. John J. Dempsey (D. N. M) announced that he would file a discharge petition on the Speaker's desk within 10 days if the committee does not act inside that time on the bill, which is an outgrowth of the Sheppard Committee's revelations of political ewploitations of WPA in 1938. Signatures of a majority of the House, 218 members, are necessary to discharge the committee and force the measure to the floor for a vote, The bill, sponsored by Senator Hatch (D. N. M.), went through the Senate several weeks ago in less than half an hour and without a dissenting vote, but it has been sidetracked in the House Committee since April 20 with no attention whatever, Opposed by Leaders

The reason is not hard to find nor the responsibility hard to fix. It is an open secret in the House that Administration influences are actively operating to squelch the bill. The strategy upon which they rely is to let the bill die in a pigeonhole through the process known as “delay, delay and yet more delay.” It is an old trick in the House | | |

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Speaker Bankhead and Majority | Leader Rayburn are criticizing the | measure privately and making no effort whatever to get it before the| House, though President Roosevelt | has twice recommended legislation to prevent political use of relief Immediately and directly in charge of the bill is Rep. Arthur D Healey (D. Mass), staunch Administration supporter, who is chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee to which the measure was referred seve eral weeks ago bv Rep. Hatton W Summers D. 'ex.), committee chairman Other Bills in Way Mr. Healey explained that his subcommittee now is holding public hearings on the Harrington bill to, divorce production and refining in the oil industry from marketing and that these hearings would last several weeks. He said there also were other measures before the] subcommittee. He could not promise early action on the Hatch bill Inquiry developed that the other bills before the subcommittee are a private relief bill involving one inc, idual, a measure to forbid use of Te mails in soliciting the procurement of divorces in foreign countries, and a bill to compensate persons injured in public building construction Chairman Sumners, who has displayed interest in early action on the measure, is ill in a hospital

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It is evident from the attitude of the Speaker, the Majority Leader and Rep. Healey that the bill going to lie in the pigeonhole a long time unless others in the House take it upon themselves, as Rep. Dempses has done, to pry the measure loose from the Committee Nobody doubts the outcome if the bill goes to the floor. It will pass Members cannot afford to put themselves on record in favor of the political use of relief. Some Democrats have expressed a feeling thai the party puts itself in a peenlia and indefensible position if the leadership bottles up the bill. They say the only conclusion possible is that the party wants to continue political use of relief.

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NEW AGENCY TALKED

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P). Creation of a new government corporation to finance all self-liqui-dating Federal projects may be proposed at the present session of Con-| gress, official circles indicated today. | Such a corporation would raise money through public sale of Gov-ernment-guaranteed obligations to finance the construction of new .elfliquidating projects and to reimburse the Treasury for what it has spent to date in building existing projects, Treasury lawyers have prepared a proposed draft of legislation which has been discussed with representatives of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Power Commission, Reclamation Bureau, Public Works Administration, Army Engineers and the Bonneville Authority. As soon as the final form is approved, the legislation will be introduced unless it appears that Congress is approaching adjournment, in which case it would be delayed until the, next session

Steel Corp. and others by Chairman | Robert (Wis) in summarizing the two-and- |

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A { n \X AN RR... | - Vy PENSION DEBATE WASHINGTON, May 26 (U, P). > | ~The 12-man Michigan Republican \

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f animously indorsed Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich) for the 1940 Republican Presidential nomination. ( The move abruptly posted Mich-

| igan against trespassing by other contenders.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P.).— Senator Vandenberg now is cer« The House Rules Committee today tain to be the favorite son candigranted right-of-way to the Town- date of the Michigan delegation to send $200-per-month old-age pen- the Republican Ratiokal Coven sion bill under a “gag-rule” barring tion next year. He has not an amendments and limiting debate to nounced his candidacy but this week four hours. informed a questioner that: ; | Under pressure from House Demo- | Of course I would not decline cratic leadership, the committee re- the nomination—but I do not have versed its action of vesterday and the remotest idea that the situagranted the restricted rule which al-| so bars points of order during House! consideration.

The rule is part of the Democratic | leadership's strategy to “put on the spot” Congressmen who have flirted with the Townsend bill by forcing hem on record for or against the bill. Leaders said the pension bill

with its concomitant 2 per cent sales tax has no chance of passage. House leaders plan to call the bill up in the House next week, in advance of consideration of the Administration’s social security amendments, Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the House Ways and Means [Committee had asked for eight hours general debate on the Townsend bill. His committee reported the measure without recommendation After a day-long session yester-| day, the Rules Committee rejected a motion to grant a rule. Within 10 minutes, House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn t(D. Tex.) and House Whip Patrick J. Boland (D. Pa.) corralled Democratic Committee - - members, | | Rules Chairman Adolf J. Sabath | 1 4 BVT v IR (D. Ill) later announced that the! La F ollette | CS tifies On | Committee would meet again and |

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WASHINGTON, May 26. —Current strikes and suits in the automo-| bile, coal and steel industries are accompanied heve by the rattle of old] (WASHINGTON. May 26 (U. P). skeletons at Sente hearings of the La Follette-Thomas Oppressive La<' _ he Senate Appropriations Combor Practice Bill, which went into the second session today. mittee vielded to the demands of : economy-minded Senators today

Charges of oppressive labor acts are made against Harlan County, and slashed $50,000,000 from the Kentucky, coal companies, automo- rivers and harbors ang Rood Cate ; trol sections of the War Departbile the Republic ment Nonmilitary Appropriation Bill I'he Committee restored the items to budget estimates,

y fH : Of (TF | The bill as passed by the House WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P.) ~ contained $117.000.000 for rivers and The Navy Department today sped

harbors and flood control. This preparations for its greatest peace- would have meant $5,000,000 for In-| witnesses covering 34 volumes of tes- time naval construction program. giana, Secoluing 0 oh Hates! | timony, Senator La Follette opened| It was assured funds late yester- as - affect pb v tod Ys nak in ve | the new hearings in behalf of the ... « esident Roosevelt signed HO ee a i ay S TUL Slut : ; lover use of: day when President Roos Sig the largest reduction was made in EO I oe. [the $773,049,151 naval appropriations funds for the lower Mississippi, 1. Labor spies and espionage (bill, carrving money for beginning : 2. Strikebreakers and agencies [construction on two 45,000-ton bat3. Company-armed guards off com- tieships, 21 other vessels and purpany property. chase of 500 new Navy combat 4 Industrial munitions such 88 yjanes. The funds will be made tear gas and submachine guns. available at the start of the new Today Gerald Reilly, Labor De- fecal vear July 1. partment solicitor, told the sub- 3 Y committee that he considers the La 2 on : gO . | Follette bill “thoroughly workable” The Senate sent to the House today S Rha es us 5 and constitutional. a bill giving the Interstate Com- GUATEMALA BANS NAZIS Merle D. Vincent, chief of the merce Commission authority to] GUATEMALA CITY, May 26 (U * hearings and exemptions section of regulate inland waterway transpor- P.) —A sweeping Government decree the Wage and Hours Division, said tation as well as railroads and other today banned political activity of the bill was needed. common carriers in interstate com- any kind by foreigners even among | merce. "their own countrymen, 1

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JUDGE ASKS TO RESIGN | WASHINGTON, May 26 (U, P).| * President Roosevelt announced! today that he had on his desk the, e resignation of Federal Judge Ferdinand L. Geiger of Milwaukee. He @ WASHINGTON. May 26 (U. Pp.) — said he had not yet acted upon it.

Claims 1500 Firms Used Spies

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tion will develop any such necessity.” Political Washington appreciates the Senator's modesty, but properly counts him as hopeful and likely candidate for the nomination. 1t is understood that a deal has been arranged whereby District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York will not attempt to poach on Senator Vandenberg's Michigan preserves. Mr. Dewey was born in Michigan. Senator Vandenberg might have had the 1936 G. O. P. nomination if he had battled for it. His privately expressed opinion long before the

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Senator La Follette said the study of only five strikebreaking and spy agencies had identified 1500 companies which had used such services Among those named were the Na- \ ta bb Tb tional Metal Trades Association, ¥ General Motors, Chrysler, Akron Employers Association (rubber companies), Remington Rand, Associated Industries of Cleveland, RCA Manufacturing, Youngstown Sheet | & Tube and Yale & Towne Manufacturing. After quoting earlier testimony of T. M. Girdler, head of Republic Steel, Paul W. Litchfield of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, and certain] industrialists opposing so-| called oppressive practices, Senator La Follette said: | “The committee can feel no confidence in such professions of repudi-| ation or reform on the part of em-| to over a ployers who continue to resist col-| ple Is lective bargaining. It is easy to] guarantee of overestimate the deterrent value.

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