Evening star., 1932-06-21
Conferees Meet to Discuss
Revised Plan Passed by
Wide Margin in House.
SAVING OF $10O,OOO,O 900
PLACED AT 8.3 PER CENT
Measure Designed to Apply Only
to Fiscal Year Beginning
July /.

Final action in the Senate was ex-
pected today on the new pay,ess furlough
plan for Federal and District govern
ment employees.
With leaders predicting its early ap-
proval, the Senate conferees on the
general economy biil-estimated now to
effect saving of approximately $50, ,000,-
900 toward balancing the budget-met
early in the day to consider the revised
furlough plan, which was rushed
through the House late yesterday with
overwhelming support. As chairman of
the conferees, Senator Jones, Republi-
can, Of Washington, was determined to
call up the conference report at the
earliest opportunity, confident the Sen
ate would agree readily to the pay cut
items written into the furlough plan.
The House formally reported to the
Senate shortly before noon the result
OF its action. thus paving the way for
final approval.
Changes Necessitate Action.
The House amended the Senate plan
to exempt employees receiving less than
$1,000 a year. The Senate voted to
exempt employees receiving less than
$1,000. This modification necessitates
the Senate concurrence.
Jones predicted the badly battered
economy bill soon would be on its way
to the White House for signature by
President Hoover.
The payless furlough section, esti-
m tod m coyo e1n0 nm nm NV
trasted with the straight pay cut de-
feated earlier by the House, applies an
8.3 per cent salary cut for all Federal
and District employees receiving $1,000
or more per annum, with a graduated
cut on salaries starting at $4,000.
In the last analysis" said Represent
ative McDuffie of Alabama, its sponsor
in the House, this Is pay cut in the
disguise of furlough."
Saves $4,000 900 More.
the Senate, the furlough plan would
have accounted for a saving of $8O,-
100000. The new plan, therefore, saves
an additional s20,000,000 Senator
Moses. Republican, of New Hamp-
shire, who sponsored payless furloughs
in the Senate, was among the first to
predict its early acceptance of the
measure. Should the Senate, for some
unexpected reason, fail to agree to the
conference report as amended, the mat
ter would be placed in the hands of the
conferees for the two houses again
This course, however, was not antici-
pated.
The vote by which the new furlough
plan was adopted in the House-326 to
45-indicates the almost complete COL
lapse of all opposition and rush of
Democrats to give their support to what
originally was termed an administration
economy plan applying the principle Of
the five-day week to the Government.
Mr.. McDufde, chairman OF the House
conferees: first wrote into the plan a
graduated pay-cut scale for those who
might be exemnted from furloughs be-
cause their services were considered
indispensable.
To such workers, drawing between
$1,000 and $4,000, salary slash of
8.3 per cent will apply; between $4,000
and $4,000, 10 per cent cut; between
1000 and SIS, 1000, II per cent cut;
between $4,000 and $4,000, a is per
cent cut: while all salaries over $40, 900
will be slashed 20 per cent.
Effective Next July 1.
Put forward as an emergency eco
nomic measure, the payless furloughs
apply only to this coming fiscal year,
beginning July l.
Explaining the effect on general an
nual leaves, about which some misap-
prehension had arisen, Senator Jones
said: There will be no annual leaves
with pay this coming fiscal year Of 1888
Beginning with the 1884 fiscal year,
however, there will be Is days annual
leave with pay for all employees.
The furlough itself is for one calendar
month, or "a working days, with Sat-
urday counted as half day.
Senator Bratton, Democrat. Of New
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