Measure Expected to Pass Immediately After Convention None. SrCIAL sEICE
Washington, Nov. 30, 'The tax reduction programme' proposed by Mr. Andrew Mellon, /secretary of the Treasury, is expect ed to pass the House of Representatives next week immediately after Congress reconvenes for the regular session.
Representative W.°G. Hawley, chairman of the committee in charge, is preparing the bill so that it will be ready on Monday.
It is expected that a favorable report on the measure will be submitted on Wednesday, clearing the way to approval of the bill by the House as a whole, Senator Wesley L. Jones of ashington to-day accepted the chairmanship of the Senate appro-Priations committee, simultaneously resigning from the assistant leader-hip of the Republican party in the Senate.
This will clear the way for appointment of 4 younger man, Senator Jones is 66 years of age end has served in Congress 1809, first in the House and since 1909 in the Senate.
Senator Charles L. MeNary of Oregon, prominent through Joint authorship of the MeNary-Haugen farm relief plan, is favour ed as assistant floor leader. He is a younger man, a westerner Senator Jones, and it is generally felt that his appointment would bring harmony.
Stormy Time for Senate Dec. 1.
Somewhat weary after long and embittered discussions of the Haw-ey-Smoot tariff-bill during the.epecial session, the. Seventy-first Congress will meet to-morrow for the Jopening of the regular winter ses-
The Senate is expected to launch} promptly into consideration of the stating of Mr. William Vare of Pennsylvania, Senator-elect, hereto-Hfore denied his seat because of allezations of excessive campaign ex-Ipenditures. The question was injected into the special session by] Mtr. Norris Chairman, of the judi-clary committee, but was deferred with the understanding that it would] Jcome up promptly in December.
Attention of the House for a time will be occupied chiefly with: the 10] major appropriations bills, covering [all routine expenditures of the Unit-fed States Government. Months ago, President Hoover passed the word] to all departments that their proposed expenditures should be re-Jduced to the minimum, and in no ease should the total budget exceed] that for the last fiscal year, Such a prograrame always entails political difficulties owing to the many semi-economic proposals which confront every Congress. A burning] [political question is whether "Hoover economy" will follow the famous "Coolidge economy," a bye-word in (Congress for many years past.
Political storm-clouds lurk over the capitol at this session, as the ral parties struggle for a favourable political position preparatory to the Congressional elections to be libeld next fall. Not only will the Democrats make a profound effort to regain losses experienced during the elections of 1928, but regular Republican forees will manceuvre to secure a preference for the s0- called "regular" Republican candid-fates over the so-called "progress ives." These circumstances indicate 'a session replete with strife—United Press.
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