Evening star., 1934-02-25
PAY CUT VOTE DUE
|NNEXT TWO DAYS
Limit on Supply Bill Debate
Will Speed Senate
Action.

The Senate will try to reach a final
vote by tomorrow evening or Tuesday
on the independent Offices bill, which
contains the Government pay restora-
tion plan, and it is expected some
changes In war veterans allowances
will be attached in the remaining
hours of debate.
Beginning at pm tomorrow, there
will be limitation on debate, which
may bring vote on passage of the
bill before adjournment, although
there are several war veterans
amendments remaining to be con-
Sidered
Meanwhile, supporters of full res
toration of Government salaries con-
tinued confident yesterday that the
provision written into the bill several
days ago will be retained and agreed
to by the House. The pay section calls
for restoration of per cent of the
present cut as of February / and res
toration of the full IS per cent on
July /.
Return to House.
AS soon as the Senate settles the
veterans amendments, the bill will
be sent back to the House. When It
Is received there. it can either be
sent direct to conference on all Sen
ate amendments, or steps may be
taken to obtain an expression Of the
House on the Senate pay restoration
amendment.
Senator McCarran, Democrat. of
Nevada, author of the amendment
by which full restoration on July
was inserted, indicated yesterday he
is still confident the provision will
be left in the bill. Before this amend
ment was adopted, the bill provided
for the 5 per cent as of February l
and another per cent on July l,
leaving one third of the cut subject
to return by presidential order, de-
pendent upon increases in commodity
prive levels by that time
In the meanwhile, further evidence
Of the upward trend of food prices
here was furnished yesterday when
the Labor Department made public
figures showing an advance of one
half of l per cent for the last two
weeks in January. bringing the rise
since April last year, to IT per cent
Vegetables Rise.
The January increase here was
slightly under the national figure OF
six-tenths of one per cent. based or
a survey of 81 cities. Prices here
still are three per cent below those
of two years ago
The January rise. the Labor De-
partment said. was caused by con-
tinued advances in average prices OF
butter, vegetables, beef cuts, leg ol
lamb and rice and recent advances
in canned salmon. hens. cornmeal
rolled oats, canned peas and toma-
toes"
II the House agrees to the McCar'
ran amendment on the pay program
it would then go to the White House
The bill is not likely to go through
its final stages and leave the Capito
before the end of this week or early
next week. Even if the Senate paSse:
it tomorrow night and it goes bach
to the House Tuesday it probably
would be Wednesday or Thursday be-
fore the conferees began deliberations
And, after all amendments have beer
worked out in conference. the report
of the conferees will have to be rati-
fed by both Houses.
Debate over the veterans amend
ments tomorrow is expected to re-
volve principally around the question
of how far to go in restoring pre-
sumptive disability cases to the rolls
and on the restoration of benefits tt
Spanish War veterans. which were
withdrawn by the economy law.