Evening star., 1924-06-02
DEADLOCK ON 6O.4O
RELATION CONTINUES
Conferees Announce Disagreement.
House Members to Ask for
New Instructions.
SENATORS STAND
FIRM
Say Rejection Of Cramton Amend
ment Entirely Fair.

Following a second conference to-
ment to the District appropriation
bill the conferees Of the Senate and
House announced disagreement.
The House conferees will report to the
House this disagreement and ask
further instructions
The House conferees proposed as
a compromise at today's meeting that
the lump-sum appropriation to be
made, under the so-called Cramton
amendment as the governments con-
tribution to the upkeep of the Ma
tional Capital be made $4,000 an
increase of $1,000.oo0 over the Cram
ton proposal. and that the miscel-
laneous receipts collected in the Dis
trict. now placed in the federal Treas
ury so per cent to the credit of the
District and 40 per cent to the credit
OF the federal government, be placed
entirely to the credit of the District
in the future. 1t is estimated that
available for the District by about
81 100000.
Proposal Rejected.
This proposal, however. was reject
ed by the Senate conferees. who are
insisting upon the retention Of the
6O-40 plan Of appropriating for the
District of Columbia.
After a session that was reported
to be stormy the conferees adjourned
They do not expect to meet again un-
til the House has taken action on the
reported disa agreement
Chairman Davis of the House con-
ferees today offered in the House a
report that the conference had been
unable to agree. Representative
Davis intended to ask the House for
instructions on the Senate amend
ment covering the fiscal relations be-
ernments, but was shut off when the
chair recognized other members be-
fore REPRESENTATIVE Davis had mad an
opportunity TO ask for a vote on the
Cramton amendment.
Senate conferees maintain that 20
throw over the principle of proper
tionate contribution by the federal
government to the expenses of the
Districts principle that has been in
force since the organic law of the
District was enacted in 1878 either
under the $3.50 or the 60-40 plan
without any adequate Investigation
OF what the government should con-
tribute. under a lump-sum plan is
beyond reason.
to insist that the 60-40 plan be con-
tinued In operation, at least for the
Eext fiscal year. During the comm 2
year, they believe, commission
should investigate thoroughly to as
certain what changes. If any, should
be made in the fiscal relations of the
District, and what lump sum should
be contributed annually by the fed
eral government il the 60-49 plan rs
to be abandoned.
Could Name ommission.
1t was said today that provision
could we'll be made in the pending
District Appropriation bill for the ap-
pointment of such a commission, with
instructions that it report at the next
session of Congress.
The Senate conferees believe that
their position Is entirely fair to the
House. 1t is pointed out that the
Cramton amendment was offered from
the floor OF the House, not as COM
mittee proposal, and that it was
adopted in committee of the whole
with only few members of the
House present.
posal to continue the fiscal relations
of the District and the Federal gov
ernment under the present arrange
ment. with a commission to report at
the next session, is fair. To adopt an
arbitrary lump sum as the govern
ments contribution to the expenses
of the District, without any investi-
cation, is fair. neither to the District
nor to the Federal government, it
was said.
The conferees are not predict
ing a complete deadlock between the
two Houses, but should such a dead
lock arise, and the District bill fall,
a continuing resolution for the next
fiscal year would merely keep in
force the present 60-40 plan, without
granting much needed items of ap-
propriatfons now carried in the Dis
trict bill.