Evening star., 1933-01-26
Both Parties Urged to Co.
operate in Providing Vital
Federal Funds.
ACTION ON PAY SLASH
LIKELY TO BE DELAYED
Passage of Legislation Impossible
Without Hearty Effort,
Chairman Says.

AS the Senate began work TODAY on
the Treasury-Post Office appropriation
Dill, including the general economy pro-
gram, Senator Hale. Republican, of
Maine. chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, appealed to both parties in
the Senate to unite in putting through
all OF the regular annual supply bills
at this session. rather than allow them
TO go over to the special session.
Ihe economy features. including the
proposed new pay cut of 12s per cent
on salaries throughout the Government
service, are at the end of the pending
bill and for that reason probably will
not be reached for action today. The
immediate discussion will relate to the
detailed items fer the Treasury and
Post Office Department.
Cooperation Necessary.
Reminding his colleagues that less
than six weeks of the present Congress
remain, with all of the departmental
supply bills still awaiting Senate action.
Senator Hale said the passage of ali
these bills in the remaining time will
be impossible without the hearty CO.
operation OF the Senate-all of the
Senate
Should all or any of these bills fail
OF passage before March A." Senator
HAZE continued, they must, of course,
be passed before July /, or resolutions
to continue last years appropriations be
enacted If the Government is to be kept
up. That an extra session of Congress
Will be called before July is probably
true. That at such an extra session
II might be found possible to consider
before July the necessary appropria-
tion bills that this Congress has failed
10 pass also may be true, but why any
patriotic Senator-and I believe we are
al patriotic according to our lights
should wish to put over to this extra
session these appropriation bills, Is be-
yond my power to conceive.
Cites War Time Spirit.
"A clear field for the consideration
OF very vital legislation will be needed
and the shorter the time that the Con-
gress stays in session, the better it will
be for the business of the country"
Senator Hale said that during the
World War sessions of Congress, politics
were laid aside and Democrats and Re-
country through the crisis.
Just as serious a crisis, perhaps even
more serious one, faces us today"
Senator Hale said, There IS Just as
much call today for us to lay aside poll
tics and fight shoulder to shoulder with
members of opposing political faith to
bring our country through this financial
crisis as there was in 1917 and 1918,
to bring us through the war crisis
q llyv
ed last Fall the retention of my party
in power. I believed my party was best
fitted to bring this suffering country
back to prosperity, but the people of
the country decided otherwise. By an
overwhelming vote. they put the Demo-
cratic party in control of the Govern
ment, and I can honestly say that I
hope they make success of it. The
future of the country may well depend
upon their making success Of it and
I for my part say Godspeed to them.
Will Avoid Politics, He Says.
Il may or may not support the
measures that their program, when they
have determined upon it, will call for,
but hope and trust that politics will
not influence my decision. And eSpe-
cially hope and trust that neither
nor any other Republican Senator will,
for the seeming sake of party advantage
and to put the party in power in
hole. resort to any practice that will
prevent that party from functioning
and functioning promptly. The Demo-
Gratis of the Senate I believe, want the
appropriation bills passed at this session
of Congress SO they may have a clear
field for the difficult problems that will
confront them at the extra session Of
Congress"
Turning to discussion of the diff
cult task of trying to balance the
budget for next year, Senator Hale re-
viewed the figures submitted by the
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