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July 3, 1946
CONGRESS PASSES UP RADIO BILLS FOR FALL ELECTIONS
There lar^t a chance of any further legislation affecting radio being passed between now and the short time Congress adjourns for the Fall elections. Neither is it expected that any such new laws will be enacted during the final short session of the 79th Congress immediately following the elections in November. Unless some emergency arises, it is doubtful if radio will have any further consideration until the 80th Congress convenes next January.
As a matter of fact the only radio bill Introduced in the 79th Congress (which began January 3, 1945) which finally became a law, was the one introduced by Representative Lea (D), of California trying to get James Caesar Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians, off the necks of the broadcasters. Also the Lea Bill had the distinction of being the only piece of anti¬ labor legislation which passed the present Congress.
The first radio bill was dropped into the hopper of the 79th Congress by Representative Pehr G. Holmes ( R) , of Massachusetts aimed at the Federal Communications Commissions desire to get into the business and program side of broadcasting stations.
The Holmes Bill stated, in part:
"Nothing in. this Act shall be understood or construed to give the Commission the power to regulate the business of the lic¬ ensee of any radio broadcast station, and no regulation, condition or requirement shall be promulgated, fixed, or imposed by the Com¬ mission, the effect or result of which shall be to confer upon the Commission supervisory control of station programs or program mater¬ ial, control of the business management of the station, or control of the policies of the station or of the station licensee. "
The Bill would also have split the Commission into seg¬ ments, one to handle radio and the other to handle the public car¬ riers such as the telephone and telegraph companies.
The White-Wheeler Bill, remedial legislation for the FCC, on which hearings had been held in the previous Congress, was re¬ introduced.
A flock of bills to prohibit the advertising of all alco¬ holic beverages by radio were dropped into the hopper by Senator Arthur Capper, (R), of Kansas; Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D), of Colorado, and Representative John E. Rankin (D), of Mississippi.
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