Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-05
LEADERS CONFER
ON PAY MEASURE
House Committee to Meet
Tomorrow on Rule to Send
Bill to Conference.

Chairman Zihlman and Acting
Chairman Mcleod of the House District
committee are comforting with House
leaders this afternoon in an effort to
straighten out the tangle over the police
and firemen's pay bill. A resolution,
introduced late last night by Mr.. Nc
Leod that the House insist upon its
amendments for this measure was re-
ferred to the House rules committee.
Mr.. Mcleod was informed by the House
parliamentarian that his motion to send
the bill to the conference asked by the
Senate must be either under unanimous
consent or under special rule.
A special meeting of the House rules
committee has been called for tomor-
row morning at 1880 o'clock. At that
meeting the representatives Of the
House District committee hope to have
hearing on their application for a
special rule so that the police and fire.
men pay increase bill may be sent to
conference with the Senate.
Chairman Zihlman said today that he
could not sec how the rules committee
could refuse the House District COM
mittee an opportunity to send the bill
to conference with the Senate under
the customary rules of procedure.
designations Possible.
If 1t is shown that the House leaders
by refusing this rule are supporting
Chairman Simmons of the subcommit-
tee on appropriations in his efforts to
thwart the will of both the House and
Senate legislative committees for the
District of Columbia, then the temper
of the House committee members Is
that they will resign, because they feel
that their functions have been uSurped
their decisions set at naught and their
opportunity to perform their duty has
been wrested from them.
Chairman zihlman, Acting Chairman
Mcleod and Representative Lampert of
Wisconsin, the three men who acted
for the House District committee in
conference with House Leader Tilson
and Mr.. Simmons in an effort to
straighten out matters to avert the
threatened filibuster by Mr.. Simmons
against the pay bill, denied today the
claim of Mr.. Simmons that they are
not living up to their agreement
Mr.. Simmons said that they mad
very definite agreement with him that
the police and firemens pay dill as it
passed the House would become law
without any subsequent change and
that now they are WEIGHING on hat
agreement and that he insists that they
live up to it.
agreement OcI1icus
In individual interviews today these
three House District committee men,
bers in most emphatic language denied
that there ever had been any such
agreement or that it had even been
mentioned. How preposterous IL is TO
make such a claim they SAID Our
only agreement was to accept the
amendments in the House under duresS.
How could we speak for the Senate
or what right had we to attempt to say
what the Senate could or should do.
Such claim is ridiculous.
1--WE were led by Mr.. Simmons to
believe that the Senate would approve
the amendments which he forced into
the bill in the House Under threat
of filibuster. 1t was disclosed yeSter-
day how small following he has in
the Senate. 1t Is unprecedented domi-
nation for any member of the House
to attempt single-handed to override
the will of the legislative committees
of both House and Senate after mature
consideration of a measure"
After the Senate yesterday had sent
the pay bill to conference, after max
ing it plain that the Senate was not
at all pleased with the amendments
forced into the bill, Mr.. Simmons OBJ
iected to the unanimous consent re-
quest to send the bill to conference.
But for the 81 object" statement by
Mr.. Simmons in the House late yester-
day when Acting Chairman Mcleod
of the District committee asked unani-
nous consent to send the pay bill to
conference. the differences between the
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