Evening star., 1932-06-07
Ten Per Cent Reduction for
Salaries of 81, 900 or More
a Year of Federal Employees
Is Sustained.
ANNUAL LEAVE REDUCTION
NEXT TO BE CONSIDERED
Propose Taking Is Days From Va.
cation-Reorganization of Gov
ernment Bureaus in Interests of
Economy and Veterans Benefits
Also to Be Acted Upon.

| AASo w oC oClCu OpUu.
The Senate today voted to cut the
annual leave of Federal employees,
| with pay, from 80 to IS DAYS, to
save s22 100000.
BY vote Of IL to So the Senate
today defeated the furlough plan
which was offered as a substitute
for the fiat 10 per cent pay cut on
all Federal and District employees
who receive 1000 or more a year.
! The effect of this vote is to sus-
tain the Senate's action of Satur-
day in approving the 10 per cent
pay cut.
The furlough substitute, which
was offered by Senator Moses,
Republican, OF New Hampshire,
would have been equivalent to a
pay reduction of only 8.3 per cent,
and would have exempted all en-
ployeS under 81 200.
Having spent several days de-
batting what form the pay cut
should take, the Senate will now
move on to other features of the
general economy bill. Including
the proposal to permanently re-
duce the annual leave of Govern
ment employees from 80 to IS days,
reorganization of Government bu-
reaus In the interest of economy
and curtailment of the benefits Of
war veterans in several directions.
The change in the length of the
annual leave is estimated to save
$22, 100000, while the veterans
benefits would be cut down by
$48, 900, 900 year in various ways.
The savings from reorganization
OF bureaus have not been definite
ly computed.
Vote on FurIough.
The roll call vote on the fur
Tough substitute follows:
For the furlough plan: Republicans
Austin, Barbour, Blaine. Carey, Couz-
ems. Cutting, Dale, Davis, Frazier,
Goldsborough, Hebert, johnson, Kean.
Moses, Nye, Oddie, Patterson, Reed,
Shortridge' Smoot, Steiwer Townsend.
Vandenberg. Walcott, White-25.
/ Democrats-Coolidge. Costigan, Lo-
! gan. Halves, Pittman, Thomas of Okla
/ homa, Wagner, Walsh of Massachu-
sets, Nicely of West Virginia and
! Wheeler-lC
Farmer Labor-Shipstead-l.
Against the furlough plan Demo-
crats-Ashurst, Bankhead, Barkley.
Bratton, Broussard, Bulkley. Bulow,
Byrnes, Mrs. Caraway, Cohen, Connal-
ly, Dill, Fletcher George, Glass. Har-
rlson, Hayden, Hull Kendrick. King.
Lewis, McGill, McKellar, Robinson of
Arkansas. Sheppard, Trammell, Tyd-
lngs, Walsh of Montana-28.
Republlcans-Bingham, Borah. Cap
per. Dickinson, Hale. Hastings, Howell
Jones. Keyes, Metca1 Norbeck, Nor
rls, Thomas of Idaho-l3
Amendment Rejected.
Before voting directly on the issue of
! whether the lurlough plan should be
substituted for the fiat 10 per cent pay
cut, the Senate, in a preliminary vote,
rejected the Vandenberg amendment to
! the furlough plan. This amendment
was INTENDED to make a distinction be-
tween the amount to be cut from the
high and low salaried groups. 1t pro-
vlded that from $4,000 up there should
have been graduated percentage re-
| duction in salary in addition to the
! furlough.
The turning down Of this amend
ment means that the vote will come
| directly On the proposal of Senator
Moses. Republican, of New Hampshire,
to substitute the furlough for all en-
ployes above $1,000 year in place Of
the fiat 10 per cent pay cut for all
employees receiving $1,000 or more q
year.
-Four members G. the Economy Sub
committee. Senators Bratton of Mexico.
McKellar o. Tennessee, Byrnes of South
Carolina and Bingham of Connecticut.
made speeches today in support Of the
10 per cent cut recommended by the
committee as being preferable to the
furlough plan.
Senator Moses. leading the fight for
, substitution of the furlough. contends
that the employees generally would
rather have that than a fiat 10. per
cent cut. The furlough plan would be
equivalent of a cut of s.3 per cent.
La Toilette Takes Issue.
When Senator Byrnes argued that
the furlough plan cannot save more
than $83 900, 900 and that this would be
substantial loss in economy from the
committee pay cut. with no prospect Of
making it up in another direction,
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin took
issue with him.
ITO say that the only place that you
can make savings out of 81 900 900 900
budget is by sweating it out of under
paid Government employees Is q state
ment I, as one member of the Senate,
resent" Senator La Toilette said
The Wisconsin Senator then pointed
out that earlier IN the day 1t had been
brought out in debate that the Appro-
priations Committee planned to recon-
mend an increase in the War Depart
ment appropriations bill.
Senator Bratton urged the Senate to
remember that the House decided not
to follow the furlough method before
it sent the economy bill to the Senate.
Senator Costigan Of Colorado re-
minded Bratton that the Senate COM
mittee has furlough clause in the
pending bill along with the fiat pay
cut and that this clause is producing
alarm among many Government work.
ers.
Senator Bratton replied, however, that
the furlough section in the committee
bill is intended only to make furloughs
possible instead of outright dismissal in