Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07
HOUSE PAY ACTION
OPPOSED IN SENATE
Dale and Brookhart Lead
Foes of Wood Amendment
in Upper Chamber.

A determined effort will be made by
members Of the Senate to knock from
the Treasury-Post once appropriation
bill the House amendment under which
the salaries of Government employees
could not be increased within their re-
spective grades under the classification
law during the next fiscal year.
Senators Dale, Republican, Of YER
mont, and Brookhart, Republican. of
Iowa, both came out yesterday in oppo-
sition to such q limitation and urged
its elimination from the bill. Senator
Dale is chairman Of the Civil Service
Committee and Senator Brookhart Is a
member of that committee.
When the Senate meets tomorrow, 1t
will receive the Treasury-Post once
measure from the House, which passed
| it late Friday with the salary limitation
! included It will be referred to the
Senate Appropriations Committee, which
probably will begin work on 1t without
delay.
Expects Disagreement.
! 1T do not think the Senate will agree
| to the House provision" Senator Brook
| hart said last night, referring to the
limitation on salary increases.
The House restriction does not adect
the WEIGH and Brookhart laws enacted
at recent sessions of Congress, which
raised the salary rates applicable to
various grades of the classification law,
but seeks to postpone for year IN
creaSeS within grades which were rec
commended in the budget TO bring
under-average grades up to the average.
IF Congress was sincere in passing
| the primary legislation respecting sal
aries, 1t should go through with \" said
| Senator Dale. II know perfectly well
| that the argument will be made that
we have to be careful with the expendl-
| ture Of money and that we are short on
account Of the financial depression, but
I believe that such steps as the pro-
posed salary adjustments will help to
| get US out Of the depression"
Plan is Explained.
J In his budget message to Congress
early in the week the President eX-
planned that there has developed
| through the years rather a wide differ
ence among the several departments
and establishments as to the relation
ship which the average OF the existing
salaries bears to the average Of the
compensation rates provided by law for
| the various grades of positions
In order to spread over a three-year
period the cost of bringing these under
| average grades up to the average the
budget figures submitted for the next
fiscal year included approximately 80
per cent of the amount required to
make the necessary salary adjustments.
The Treasury-PoSt once measure
was the FIRST Of the annual appropri-
alton bills to be drafted by the House
Appropriations Committee and to it was
attached the much discussed limitation,
forbidding any increases within grades
during the next fiscal year.
The amendment does not reduce any
existing salaries, but would prevent
! during the next fiscal year the recon-
mended increases within grades.
Called Backward Step.
Senator Brookhart said he looked
upon the House limitation as "a back
ward step" and that he was not in
| favor Of taking such steps.
Senator Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas, said he would be disposed TO
follow the course recommended in the
budget as submitted to Congress to
make the proposed salary adjustments.
Snator Caraway, Democrat, Of Ar
kansas also was inclined to the belief
that the Senate would not be Sympa-
thetic toward the House salary limita-
| ton.
Senator Jones, Republican, of Wash
ington, chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, which will consider the
matter, was out of the city yesterday.