1500-1510 Commentary Analysis On The Presidents Address

Once again, we are speaking from the House of Representatives in the nation's capital. When we returned you to New York some minutes ago, shortly after thereafter, the joint session of the Congress was adjourned, but the House of Representatives stayed convened.

Just a minute or two ago, the House of Representatives concluded the business of the day and convened or rather adjourned to convene again on Monday. Albert Warner, Columbia's Washington News Analyst, is still here in the small library just off the House of Representatives floor and has several more distinguished members of Congress from Evil Interview, Albert Waller.

Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama, Speaker of the House of Representatives is here with me now. Speaker Bankhead presided with Vice President John Garner at the Joint Session which has just concluded. Speaker Bankhead, I wonder if you'll tell us a little about the session ahead.

Well, I do not know, sir, that I am in a position now to give a direct answer to your query as to something about what is going to take place in the session of Congress ahead of us.

As all know, we are just convened today and either the Democratic nor Republican leaders have had an opportunity yet to fashion or formulate in a definite program of action. But I think that I'm justified in assuming that for quite a while at least the Senate of the United States will be the center of attention as far as legislation is concerned,

because as you know, during the last session of the House, we passed through this body the Bloom bill in modified form. And it's my information that the Senate committee will meet either tomorrow or Saturday to take up consideration of some form of that bill. I do not know how long it will be in