Evening star., 1932-07-14
PUBLICITY SECTION
IN NEW RELIEF BILL
|. TIES UP CONFEREES
Amendment Was Adopted by
House as Speakers
Vote Breaks Tie.
GARNER'S YIELDING HELD
NEEDED FOR AGREEMENT
Retention of Glass Provision on
Federal Reserve to Be Retained
in Measure.

Speaker John N. Gamers insistence
on the publicity amendment in the So
| l00,000,000 relief bill today tied up the
House end Senate conference on this
measure
After being in session for three and a
half hours, the ccnferees recessed at !
! O'Clock until for lunch. The publicity
amendment, written into the bill by the
House yesterday when Speaker Garner.
by his own vote broke a tie and forced
the adoption of the amendment, was
reported to be the chief stumbling
! block
AS the conferees broke up. prediction
was made by some OF them that
! Speaker Garner would have to yicid on
, this matter and the House with him,
or there would be no agreement on the
relief bill in conference
IN large measure. the bill as agreed
, to in conference will resemble the bill
as it passed the Senate late Tuesday
night.
Glass Amendment to Stay.
The so-called Gless amendment. re-
lating to loans authorized by the Fed
eral Reserve Board to be made by Re
serve banks to individuals, will be re-
| tanned, 1t was said.
The delay in reaching an agreement
over the relief bill is threatening plans
! for adjournment Of Congress tonight or
| tomorrow.
The conference on the home loan
bank bill is awaiting an agreement on
| the relief bill.
The conference agreement will pro-
vide for reorganization and enlarge
! msnt of the board of directors of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation in
accord with the Presidents recon-
mendation.
/ The House yesterday voted 2e6 to 4s
| to send the bill to Mr. Hoover without
| carrying permission for Federal Reserve
banks TO discount notes of private indi-
viduals Although some administration
followers thought this would make it not
so welcome at the White House Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mills and Eugene
Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve
Board, did not oppose it.
Mills Is Opposed.
Secretary Mills, however, told news
| papermen today he was "unalterablv
opposed to the clause which would
| give full publicity each month to Re-
Mills said he would not speak for
! President Hoover on that point but that
! as an individual member of the corpo-
rations board he believed such a pro-
vision harmful.
] Both House and Senate had agreed to
! the idea of compelling the Reconstruc-
! ton Finance Corporation TO publish lists
of borrowers. Speaker Garner broke o
l69-169 tie on this point.
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capital of the corporation from
| 81 900 100000 to $4,000 900 000 OF this.
$500 100000 would be allocated to State
relief loans, the balance to public or
quasi-public works of self-liquidating
nature-not to individuals, the provision
that led to the veto of the first bill.
1t also would let 1922 ,OO0, 600 be ex-
pended on public works only when the
Secretary of the Treasury thinks
/ finances justify.
! For time it appeared agreement on
the few differences between the House
! and Senate plans might be obtained last
night, but long Senate delay in ap-
! pointing its conferees put the confer
ence off until today.
Curtis Names Conferees.
| Conferees were appointed as follows
| by Vice President Curtis: Norbeck. Re-
publican. of South Dakota Brookhart,
! Republican, of Iowa; Goldsborough. Re-
publican, of Maryland; Wagner, Demo-
! crat, of New York, and Glass, Demo-
| crat, of Virginia.
| The House members are Representa-
| tives Collier. Democrat of Mississippi:
| Crisp, Democrat of Georgia; Rainey,
) Democrat of illinois; Treadway, Repub-
! lican of Massachusetts,, and Hawley,
| Republican of Oregon.
The Senate delay came on objections
/ to appointing conferees until the House
| had put the home loan bank BILL last
| of the administration reconstruction
program measures. into conference.
When an attempt by the House to do
this failed. and on plea by Senator
, Robinson of Arkansas the Democratic
| leader, the Senate named its conference
members. Soon after that House OBJ
| jectionS to the other conference were
withdrawn and both bills thus found
| themselves in conference committees.
The Senate had sought to amend
! the relief bill once again and actually
adopted clause to add 200 900 men to
! the military services, but this action
was reversed when Robinson pleaded
! against further delays.
Vote Follows Amendment.
Thirty-five Democrats and IL Re-
publicans voted against the bill on final
passage in the House. The vote came
| after the Democrats forced into the
measure the amendment compelling the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to
make public all loans in its monthly
reports to Congress.
At the suggestion of Speaker Garner,
who said it was planned to adjourn
| Congress tonight, the House then unani-
mously substituted its bill for the Sem
ate measure.
During the 40 minutes Of debate
on the bill one after another OF the
Democratic members condemned 1t as
inadequate, but all that could be had.
The best we can get" Representative
] Cochran of Missouri termed it. Dough-
| ton of North Carolina said: The re-
| sponsibility rests on the White House,
Republican spokesmen hailed the bill
as agreeable to the Chief Executive.