Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-02
COMPROMISE SEEN
IN CONFERENCE ON
VETERANS RELIEF
Leaders Hope to Fix Rates
Between Those of House
and Senate Bills.
PREDICT PLAN WOULD
MEET HOOVER'S WISHES
Adjournment of Congress by To-
morrow Night Depends Upon
Action by House.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Plans for sending the World War
Veterans pension bill to conference
were formulated at a meeting of the
Republican Steering Committee of the
House with the Republican members
of the Rules Committee in Speaker
Longworth's Office this morning.
Republican leaders believe they will
have a vote to adopt a special rule
sending the pension bill to conference.
The plan is for a full and free confer
ence between the representatives of
the Senate and the House Prediction
was made that it would be possible to
reach an agreement, probably fixing the
rates of pensions somewhere between
those carried in the House bill and the
Senate bill. A further prediction was
made that such a compromise if written
into the bill would be accepted by Presi-
dent Hoover. This last prediction was
made by members of the House who
have been working in connection with
the World War Veterans bill.
House Should Reject.
Representative Tilson of Connecticut,
majority leader of the House. following
the conference today in the Speakers
Office. said he thought the rates of
pensions written into the bill yesterday
by the Senate should be rejected He
was asked if the President would veto
the bill if it we're sent to him with the
Senate amendments intact.
Il am unable to speak for the Presi-
dent. of course" said Mr.. Tilson, but
I am of the opinion that the House
should reject the Senate amendments.
The plan for adjournment of Con-
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afternoon largely upon what the House
does with the veterans bill. Some
members of the House still chung to
the hope that it would be possible to
wind up the work of the session and
quit on the eve of July 4. Majority
Leader Tilson, however, was not so
optimistic. He regarded an adjourn
n1ent by tomorrow night as an I'M
probability.
Plan Early Conference.
If the plans made by the Republic
can leaders of the House today are
carried out, the conferees on the vet
Grams bill Will meet as early as pos
sible this afternoon and seek to reach
an agreement promptly. The Senate
provided for the appointment of con-
9erees last night before it adjourned
after it had amended the veterans bill
by increasing the rates Of pensions to
correspond to the rates provided for
Spanish War veterans in the law re-
Gently enacted for those veterans over
President Hoover's veto.
The veterans bill was received by
the House from the Senate soon after
the House assembled at noon today.
Representative Rankin of Mississippi.
Democrat, Immediately asked Speaker
Longworth if it were in order to move
to concur in the Senate amendments.
With a bang of his gavel Speaker
Longworth replied, 1t is not"
The Democrats are expected to make
q strenuous fight to have the Senate
amendments concurred in by the
House. The purpose of bringing in
. special rule is obviously to eliminate
all chance of a direct vote on con-
currence in the Senate amendments.
The special rule will provide only for
sending the bill TO conference, 1t Is
understood.
Comparison of Rates.
The rates of the Senate bill are the
same as those of the Spanish-American
War Veterans bill recently enacted over
Mr.. Hoovers veto A comparison of the
Senate and House rates, all monthly,
follows: