Washington, Jan. 4.
LIVELY ents in Congress between now and March were la Prospect here to-night congressmen returned from all parts of the country for the reopening of sessions on Capitol Hill. to-morrow.
Demands for further federal aid for the drought str ken farmers and the count: unemployed millions are dominating official Washington as it waits for the Congress to reconvene.
A vociferous minority in both the House and the Senate has announced its plans.
They are composed of half a dozen proposals for relief which are directly opposed to the wishes of President Hoover's administration to remain within the confines of the budget.
Senator T. H. Caraway, Demo crat of Arkansas, said to-night that when the "lame' duck" session of Congress sits to-morrow he will troduce a bill calling for the appropriation of G$15,000,000 for food loans. A similar plan was. struck off previous appropriations bills at the insistence of President Hoover.
Representative Fiorello H. "Littin Flower" LaGuardia, Republican of New York, is demanding the enac ment of unemployment insuran: e bills while Senator Burton K.
Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, ints Congress to authorize 3 G$5,000,000,000 bond issue, the proceeds of which would be used for further federal road building programmes, Senator Wheeler believes thi the only way to decrease unemploy-int is to put thousands of men to rk on road construction.
Senator William H, King, De-morat of Utah, not only is to demand immediate withdrawal of United States s from Nicaragua but he is to insist that the United States abandon entirely ite battleship modernization progranequal' vigour: the adminis tration lenders are girding for bat-te. They are determined to institute night sections of Congress if such Prove to be necessary to insure the passage of the governmental appropriations measures, The adminis-Teaders also wish to avoid necessity of convening an extra sersion of Congress next summer.
ities and businers in relation to the commodity markets bees mixed again to-day, as the official interest of Washington was attracted to an exchange of corre pondence between Mr, Alexander Legge, the chairman of the federal farm and Senator aid board.
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