Evening star., 1925-02-24
SENATORS REFUSE
TO BOW TO HOUSE
|NLUMP SUM ISSUE
Insist $1,000, 900 Share by
U. S. Be Kept in D. c.
Appropriation.
REPRESENTATIVES FIRM
FOR se,00O,O00 LIMIT
Also Decline to Concur in Two
Other Amendments Proposed
by Upper Body.

The Senate this afternoon refused
to yield to the House in the sl1,0OO,-
600 lump sum appropriation for the
current year.
Reported back from the House
without agreement on the lump sum
proposition, Senator Phipps of Colo
Tado, chairman of the subcommittee
on appropriations for the District,
moved that the Senate stand pat on
the s11, 100000 figure and that new
conferees be appointed to go over the
matter with conferees from the
House. Senator Phipps was appoint
ed chairman of the new committee,
the other members being Senators
Ball, Sheppard and Capper.
Senator Phipps explained to the Sen
ate that the Senate subcommittee on
appropriations had increased the amount
of the lump sum from 100000 to $11,-
600, 600. He said that when the bill went
to conference the House conferees were
given positive instructions not to yield
to the higher figure, and that they were
not acting as free agents under these in
structions. He asserted that it was the
belief of the Senate committee that, due
to the large amount necessary in the
appropriation bill, the Government
should pay at least $11 100000
King Opposes Fight.
Senator King of Utah opposed the
continued refusal of the Senate to
yield to the House. He said that he
believed he was speaking for other
members beside himself when he
urged that the 100000 would ade-
taIx he ypa
cations toward Washington.
The House today insisted upon it's
disagreement with the Senate on
three of the four amendments to the
District bill which were not reconciled
in conference between managers for the
House and Senate.
The House insisted upon retaining
in the bill a lump sum contribution
of $4,000, 900.
The House insisted on its dis
agreement on the provision for two
new judges in the District Police
Court, and upon retaining in the bill
the amendment fathered by Chairman
Madden of the House appropriations
committee, which directs the Budget
Bureau in framing the budget esti-
mates for the fiscal year 1927 to base
them on the lump sum appropriation
carried in the appropriation bill for
consideration. The House, on motion
of Chairman Davis of the subcom-
mittee on District appropriations,
agreed to concur in the Senate
amendment, which increases from
S77, 900 to $4,000 for contingent ex-
penses for public schools, with pro-
yiso that a bond shall not be re-
quired on account of military sup
plies or equipment issued by the War
60, ,,,tl or-N- jT1= trfIn o.
tion and practice by the students at
high schools in the District of CO.
lumbia. Representative Davis eX-
planned that this restores the amount
originally proposed in the House bill.
Davis Hits Increase.
In calling up the conference report
today Representative Davis pointed
out that the net result of the Senate
action was to increase the approprla-
tions S66l,97O and that in conference
practically all of these increases had
been agreed upon. This makes the
total of the bill, he said, S31,s12,O 600.
Representative Davis moved that
the House insist on it's disagree ement
on the amount of the lump sum.
REPRESENTATIVE Cramton of Michigan,
author of the lump sum plan, pointed
out that in the current year the lump
sum is ss.000,O00 plus a return of
certain revenues, fines and licenses
which brings the contribution or the
Federal Government up to aoou'
s1OOOc 900. Representative Cramton
said. which. is the largest amount
the Federal Government has ever
contributed towards the expenses OF
the District of Columbia in one year.
1A6 xn 4 for 50 000. 600,
eff each year we are going to have
this haggling the House will be
forced to set a sum low enough so
that we can yield something as a
concession to the Senate in confer
ence," said Representative Cramton.
When Representative Blanton of
Texas urged the insertion of the
word thereafter" with a view to
making the lump sum s9,OOO,0OO
permanent legislation, Representative
Cramton explained that he has a
bill pending which proposes to do
this in distinct substitutive law SO
as to permanently settle this ques-
tion which comes up every year.
On a rising vote the House stood
104 to in favor of insistence upon
49, 900, 900, instead of $11,000.000, as
the Federal Governments contribu-
| tion.
The House accepted the conference
report showing an agreement on the
AZ amendments to the District bill
which includes abolition of the white
bathing beach and the colored beach
which is in process of construction