Evening star., 1932-05-02
White House Hopeful Fur
Iough Will Go Through In
stead of Pay Cut.
BLANKET APPROVALS
DENIED BY GARNER
Speaker Says Slashes by Senate
Must Be Examined Carefully
by HOuse Group.

The suggestion that leaders of the
Senate and House hold informal con-
ferences to coordinate their efforts to-
ward Government economy was ad-
vanced today by Senator Oddie, Repub-
hcan, OF Nevada, as hope for favorable
action on President Hoover,s furlough
plan for Government employees was re-
Hved at the White House.
optimism that the furlough plan
would emerge from Congress in lieu of
nat salary reduction was expressed
TINS morning by two House Republican
leaders after separate calls at the White
House. Representative Smell of New
York, Republican leader, and his pred
eceSsor in that position, Representative
Tilson of Connecticut, both told news
paper men partisan politics had PLAYED
a part in defeating the furlough plan.
Final Vote Nears.
Oddies suggestion came at a time
when the Senate was preceding with
efforts to effect sizabIe economies
through reductions in appropriations
while the House had a one-dav truce
IN the light over the already emascu-
lated omnibus economy bill. The House.
however, was prepared for a vigorous
conteSC tomorrow over the veterans
provisions in the bill, with the posi-
Dlllty OF final vote late tomorrow or
Wednesday.
Oddie, who is chairman of the sub-
committee in charge of the 81. .O59 Oo0.-
UOO Ireasury-Post Office approximation
DILL expressed the belief that if the
senate goes ahead with a 10 per cent
cut In the total of this measure neces-
stating dropping of a large number of
employees, and Congress should later
ADOPT the pay cut in the House omni-
ouS economy bill, the Government serv-
Ice would be seriously affected.
Denies Blanket Approval
new element was injected into
the appropriation situation TODAY bv
speaker Garner, who told newsDaner
men it is not his policy to have The
House give blanket approval to a gen
eral policy OF fiat 10 per cent re-
auction ON appropriation bills, if such
cut Is made by the Senate.
Garner recently had the House give
speedy approval to the Interior De-
partment appropriation reduction and
nao oeen understood to say that II
the senate made such cuts the House
would go along and give concurrent
approval
The Speaker explained today with
reference to the State, Justice, Com
merce and Labor appropriation bill,
which passed the Senate Saturday with
10 per cent cut, that the House Ap-
propriations Committee must make
Sf1I6V m Hnuy hot n1fkr
II it is made scientifically" as in the
Interior appropriation bill, he said, and
could be made without doing injury to
Government administration, the House
should approve it.
But each bill as it comes from the
Senate must be studied, Garner said, to
see how these cuts are made and to
determine whether there has been any
radical curtailment that might cripple
the administration Of public affairs
coming under that department.
Farley Would Be General.
While Oddie's direct concern is over
j the effect of the 10 per cent cut in
the funds of the Treasury and Post Of
fee Departments, his proposal for an
informal conference of congressional
leaders would apply to the Government
service generally. The Nevada Senator
has not yet taken any definite steps to
bring about such a conference, but
merely put forward the proposal today
while discussing the Treasury-Post Of
fee bill. as one worthy Of consideration.
The Nevadan reiterated his intention
of asking the Senate to reconsider its
action in ordering the 10 per cent cut
on the TreaSury-Post ONCE bill, which
would mean eliminating sos 100000
from the total for the two departments.
The Senate exempted the $108,000,000
public building fund in ordering the
cut, so that the large reduction would
have to come from the remaining activ-
tiles of the Treasury Department and
flom the postal service.
After their White House calls, both
Smell and Tilson said they had discussed
economy moves with the President.
Cites Individual Fears.
Smell said he told the Chief Execu-
tive he believed many individual men,
bers of the House would not dare go
on record against reducing the $2,500
exemption on the pay-cut plan or con-
sidering further the furlough proposal.
Tilson said that what is hitting us
amidshipS" is that unless something Is
done with Federal salary expenditures
in the lower brackets, thousands Of low
paid workers will be discharged be-
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