Evening star., 1932-04-18
ECONOMY PROGRAM
WILL Be CARRIED
IN OMNIBUS BILL
Committee 0verrides Chair.
man to Adopt Proposal
of President.
SENATE 0. KS PLAN
FOR JOINT BOARD
Commission of Nine Would Study
Reorganization of Govern
mental Agencies.

BY different approaches, the Presi-
dents economy program moved brisk
ly forward today on both sides of the
Capitol
The House Economy Committee over
rode its chairman, Representative Nc
Duffe, Democrat, Alabama, and agreed
to incorporate the retrenchment meas
ureS in an omnibus bill. McDufie want
ed to separate them into three groups.
No vote was taken by it, however, to
determine whether it would accept the
Presidents furlough plan for Govern
ment employees instead of @ pay cut
favored by McDufie.
The Senate adopted a resolution to
set up a joint commission previously
recommenoed by the President to study
reorganization Of Government depart
mentS
Jones Resolution Wins.
The resolution introduced by Chair
man Jones of the Appropriations Com
mlttee was approved without debate or
record vote. Under it the commission
would report back to Congress within
80 days. The resolution now goes to
the House for consideration.
The commission would be composed
of three members Of the House, three
Senators and three members appointed
by the President.
Meanwhile Speaker Garner said the
House should accept the cuts made by
the Senate in the appropriation bills,
and said he would recognize Represent
ative Taylor, Democrat, Colorado, to
move acceptance Of the Senate amend
ments which trimmed $5, 100000 out of
the Interior Department supply bill
II the IL per cent is included in the
omnibus bill then Representative Ram
Seyer, Republican, of Nebraska, will
offer the Presidents furlough proposal
as an alternative when the matter
comes up in the House. If, however
the Presidents plan is written into the
omnibus bill then Chairman McDufie
will offer his IL per cent plan as a
substitute.
10 Per Cent Cut Plan.
Speaker Garner announced that it
is on the program of the Democratic
! leadership of the House to accept the
10 per cent cuts proposed by the Sem
ate on various departmental apprOpri-
alton bills. The first action viii be
| taken this afternoon when Chairman
Byrns OF the Appropriations Commit
tee Is recognized under suspension OF
the rules to move to accept the Senate
amendments to the Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill, which includes
the McKellar amendments for q fiat 10
per cent cut throughout the depart
ment, which means a drastic cut in
personnel
The House leadership also announced
that the pay cut and economy legis-
lation has been postponed until the
Economy Committee has completed its
draft Of the omnibus bill. The legis-
lative appropriation bill, under this poll
icy, on which it is intended, by use Of
special rule, to saddle the pay cut
and economy program as an amend
ment, will not be called up for action
tomorrow. The naval appropriation
bill will be reported to the House to-
morrow and taken UP Immediately for
consideration.
No Item Eliminated.
Thus far no item on the Presidents
economy program has been eliminated
in the tentative agreements reached by
the Economy Committee, and it Is prob
able that each any every item recon-
mended by the President in the inter-
est of economy will be brought to the
House in the omnibus bill. The work
of the subcommittee has been to en-
large upon the various items proposed
by the President rather than to strike
out any of them.
Budget Director Roop is to confer
with the committee this afternoon re-
garding a Shipping Board item on
which the committee desires further
information. After this has been set
tied the committee will proceed to go
through the Presidents omnibus plan
item by item, determining in what
form each of the provisions will be
written into the omnibus bill. Much
Of this work has already been done
and the committee expects to be able
to complete its omnibus pay cut and
economy bill by tomorrow night.
G. o. p. Division Refuted.
Representative Williamson, Republic
an of South Dakota, at the close of the
morning executive session, said that
the Republican members Of the COM
mittee and he believes a majority of
the Republican members in the House
are standing Stanchly behind the Presi-
dents program. This refutes the per-
sistent reports coming out of the ex-
ecutive session that the Republican
members are divided on the Presidents
program.
1t was disclosed, however, today that
Representative VIII r. Wood Republi-
can, of Indiana, formerly chairman of
the Appropriations Committee, and au-
thor of the original salary reduction
bill and member of Special Subcommit-
tee which drafted the IL per cent pay
cut proposal, prefers that method of
reducing salaries to the Presidents fur
Tough system. His Republican COL
leagues are endeavoring to persuade
Mr.. Wood to stand with them for ap-
proval of the Presidents furlough plan.
House approval of all the slashes
made by the Senate in appropriation
bills was advocated today by Speaker
Garner.
The Texans statement to newspaper
men said he would recognize Rep
resentative Taylor, Democrat, Colorado,
to move suspension of the House rules
later in the day for the House to ac-
cept the l89 Senate amendments to the
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