Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-16
LongWorth Facilitates Bill
Despite Opposition of
Administration.
HACKERS HOPE TO AVOID
HOOVER "POCKET VETO"
Speedy Action in Senate Indicated.
Would Make Extra Session
Less Likely.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Deaf to the administrations disau-
prevail. an apparently Overwhelming
majority of the House was determined
to pass today without change the
Bacharach veterans loan bill
Supporters of the plan had an eve to
the possibility of presidential veto.
and so sought to assure the Senate a
chance TO act in time to prevent the
measures death on President Hoover's
desk after the March adjournment.
The Chief Executive has 10 days in
which to consider bill before signing
or rejecting it.
The Bacharach bill advocates had
with th"m speaker LongW orth. who an
nounced today he would permit the vet
Grams loan legislation to be brought TN
in the House at $3.50 pm. with a view To
fnal action about 400
G. o. p. Leaders Split.
The Republican leader Tilson of Con-
necticut, was on the other side. It was
the first split in ages in the ruling Re-
publican group of the House. But SO
lew were Tflsons recorded supporters
tEat> during early consideration of the
plans no name was advanced to repre-
sent the opposition in the brief debate
proposed.
Two-thirds of the House must approve
the stringent rules suspension. The
same number is sufficient to override a
veto.
Should the measure be started on its
way to the Senate before nightfall, it
Will md there substantial group deter
mined to enact it in suficient time to
prevent a pocket veto. Already one
member has served notice he will object
TO bringing up any matters not on the
calendar until the veterans bill b con-
sidered.
The measure provides for increasing
the loan value Of the World War VET
Grams adjusted compensation certifi-
Gates to so per cent Of their face value.
estimates OF its cost have run from
$325 ,O00,0 900 or so to as much as ST.
700 100000. Secretary Mellon expressed
the administration disapproval,- based
on a possibility he saw that IL would
o1Sarrange seriously an already difficult
Treasury situation and also affect the
bond market nnfayorably.
Opposes Hasty vote.
Tilson, who had been silent on the
plan, last night definitely broke away
from Longworth, who had recorded his
approval. Tilson termed the apparent
determination to jam it through most
regrettable," because with insufficient
consideration it was being "recklessly
rushed to vote over the protest Of the
Treasury
He said he would favor a measure of
this sort If 1t limited the beneflciaries to
those in actual need, but Congress has
been cold to that idea
In the Senate the bill faced prospect
OF hearings by the Finance Committee,
whose chairman. Smoot of Utah, Is op-
posed to it, but the general belief there
was it would be acted upon with a speed
comparable to that planned by the
House.
Now One Big Issue.
Since enactment Saturday Of the
drought relief 10000 900 loan appro-
priation, contained in the Interior De-
partment bill, the veterans measure has
become the one big issue. In its con-
Sideration still is involved the possibility
OF an extra session being forced, but
the leaders say the situation now offers
'easier sailing
Agreement on the Interior bill re-
moved the key log in the jam holding
the whole stack of supply bills. The
Senate receded from its insistence on a
pay raise provision for Federal en-
ployes The same provision came I'D
in each of the departmental appropria-
tions.
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