Evening star., 1932-07-01
EIGHT OF FEDERAL
DEPARTMENTSOPEN
YEAR PENNILESS
Jones Expects to Send All
Supply Bills Except Army'S
to Hoover Today.
PRESIDENT STAYS
RETIREMENT OF 1850
Fight Over Retirement of 1000
Officers Holds Up Action on
War Department Funds.

The Government today embarked on
the new fiscal year with full sail set
to catch all economy winds.
Eight departments were starting the
bookkeeping year penniless, their ap-
preparation bills being caught in a
jam, but prompt action was expected
on all but that for the War Depart
ment, where there is a deadlock over
the House provision requiring the re-
tirement of 1000 officers.
The start Of the year also witnessed
inauguration of the new retirement
provisions Of the economy bill, but be-
cause of the late day at which this
controversial measure was enacted ex-
ecutive orders were issued at the White
House which temporarily will keep in
service about 1850 workers until GER
tain administrative questions can be
worked out. The Post ONCE is prin-
cipally affected in this instance.
Fifty Permanently Exempted.
In acting on this matter, too, Presi-
dent Hoover, in the orders which came
out late yesterday after he had signed
the economy BILL permanently exempted
approximately SO employees from forced
retirement, this number including SCI
entists, experts in various other lines
and administrative officers.
The eight departments which started
of the new year without any money are
State, Justice Commerce and Labor,
whose funds are in the same bill; War,
Agriculture, Treasury and Post Once,
the last two being incorporated in a
single measure.
Chairman Jones Of the Senate Appro-
priations Committee predicted that all
but the War Department appropriation
would go through today. He said the
failure to pass the other bills might be
embarrassing to the departments con-
cerned, but that it would not be seri-
Gus If Congress acts as promptly as
expected.
Delayed by Minor Conflicts.
All of the bills, except the War De-
partment measure, were held up by
minor conflicts between the House and
Senate.
The appropriations for the State,
Justice, Commerce and Labor Depart
ments were delayed by a dispute over
an appropriation for an airmail line
from Minneapolis to Puget Sound, but
Jones said he would ask the Senate to
yield on this today and eliminate the
fund
The Agriculture bill has been held up
| for weeks by conflict over an appro-
priation Of sl450000 for grasshopper
control, but there were indications the
Senate would give up its fight for this
and allow the bill to pass.
The Senate rejected the Treasury
Post ONCE bill conference report yes
terday because of exclusion of a S3,000,-
600 item for rural sanitation, but that
also was expected to be remedied today
SO that the measure could be sent to
the White House.
Financial authorities said the depart
ments would not be embarrassed Seri-
ously by a lack Of funds until tomor-
row, when it will be necessary for them
| to pay workers, but it was considered
quite possible that the War Department
bill would not be enacted even by then.
Roop Not Worried.
]. C. Roop, director of the budget, was
not gravely concerned about the tenn
porary lack of funds, saying that if
the appropriations bills were law by
next pay day everybody would be salts
fed.
Congressional leaders predicted that
before adjournment today all depart
ments save War would have their al
lotments at the White House.
Plans for adjournment of Congress
this week were thrown definitely into
the discards yesterday, when conferees
on the relief bill said they could not
report before next Tuesday. No at
tempt was made to fix a future ad-
journment goal.
The confereeS said they were near
ing an agreement but that it would
take them some time TO draft a COM
promise bill
They were working over a plan to
broaden the scope of the bill by ex-
tending aid to stricken private industry
through the Reconstruction Corpora
ton.
$500 Postal Workers Exempt
The largest single group Of employees
covered by the Executive order were
1900 from the Post ONCE Department,
where extensions were granted until
July 10 that the Department might
have time to put through the retire
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