Evening star., 1933-03-13
FOES OF ECONOMY
ARE HIT AS SENATE
KEEPS IT ON FLOOR
Motion to Send Roosevelt
Program to Committee
Is Tabled.
ADVOCATES ARE CHEERED,
SEEING EARLY PASSAGE
McNary Believes Most G. o. P.
Will Support President
in Drastic Cuts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate today tabled q motion
by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada, to refer the Roosevelt economy
program to the Judiciary Committee.
Failure of the attempt to send the
bill to committee represented a severe
setback for foes Of the legislation. It's
advocates Immediately expressed more
confidence that the drastic authority
requested by President Roosevelt over
veterans and Federal pay roll costs
would be granted within the next sew
eral days. the House having already
voted in favor.
G. o. p. Not to Be Bound.
After Republican conference today,
Senator McNary. the party leader, said
no effort was made to bind the Repub-
licans on the bill, but he was lied to
believe from the discussion that a sub
stantial majority will support the Presi"
dent in the passage Of this measure"
All the discussion, he said, dealt with
the veterans section, by which the
President hopes to save $400, 900 900 in
Federal expenses.
Some Republicans favored changing
the bill to limit the cuts to veterans
to is, 20 or 1878 per cent, and it was
indicated Senator Dickinson. Republi-
can, Of Iowa, would propose an amend
ment with the is per cent limit instead
of the discretionary power.
The Senate vote on tabling the reso-
luton to send the bill to committee,
which constituted the first test Of Sen
ate sentiment, was go to 20.
Democrats Show Strength.
Soon after the Senate met the mas
sive Democratic majority showed its
strength in refusing to send the bill to
committee. =
In this first test on the administra-
ton economy program 40 Democrats and
20 Republicans voted to table the mo-
ton, while II Democrats and 9 Repub-
licans voted against killing It.
The Vice Presidents desk was flooded
with amendments to the measure, many
petitions presented by Senators on be-
half of their constituents.
Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn
sylvania presented telegram from
Charles S. Dewey of Chicago, saying
the Crusaders. with more than 1,000.-
900 members, including many former
service men, advocated the bill.
During the debate, Ray Murphy, Ida
Grove, Iowa, chairman of the National
Legislative Committee Of the American
Legion, issued statement saying Sen
ators should realize the ruthlessness
of the measure as 1t Is to be applied" !"
Even opponents of the latest plan
conceded today that the economy bill
passed Saturday by the House would
have Senate approval tomorrow or
Wednesday.
This, combined with reorganization
Congress. completes, for the time, the
immediate economy steps Of the new
President in his attempt to make good
a campaign and platform promise Of q
Is per cent reduction in expenditures.
It brings, too, success where condi-
tions brought failure to President Hoo
yer despite numerous pleas for congress
Stonal action and warnings against
locust swarms of lobbyists"
Democrats Draw Cheer.
Democratic leaders, anxious to put
through Mr. Roosevelt's economy bill,
drew cheer from concessions by oppo-
nentS that Senate passage was assured.
Senator Harrison Of Mississippi,
chairman of the Finance Committee and
in charge Of the legislation, announcing
that he would call up the proposal IN
the Senate today. said:
Republican and Democratic votes
will pass this bipartisan measure"
And Senator Connally, Democrat, Of
Texas, who voted against Finance Com
mittee approval of the bill, conceded
it would pass without change.
There remained possibilities that Sen
ate Democrats might split, as did that
party in the House Saturday before the
economy bill passed there, 266 to 1873.
Senate Democratic leaders. however, did
not plan a preliminary party caucus like
that which brought the House difference
into the open.
Instead, they counted on majority
OF the Democratic votes and expected
many Republicans to join them.
In the House Saturday the measure