Evening star., 1934-03-16

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The House voted 100 to 189 to
recede from its opposition to the
Senate amendments liberalizing
veterans benefits. After a vote of
100 to 1873 had been announced,
Speaker Rainey cast his ballot
with the opponents. A recount
then was ordered.
BY vote of 225 to 16l the House
today refused to recede from it's
amendment for per cent restora-
tion Of Government pay cuts, retro
active to February !, and a per
cent, effective July l.
Similar action is anticipated on the
veterans benefits amendment.
This means the independent Offices
bill appropriation bill will go to con-
ference for the ironing out of the
differences between the House and
Senate. The Senate voted a full res
toration of the IS per cent pay cut.
House Position Fixed.
Representative Woodrum, Democrat,
of Virginia, in charge of the Inde-
pendent Offices appropriation bill, as
sured his colleagues in advance Of the
votes that the House confereeS would
consider themselves bound by the
House action to accept these amend
mentS as a minimum so that the diff
ferenceS to be thrashed out in confer
ence would be as between the House
amendment as a minimum and the
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The votes in the House today are
being taken on motions offered by
Representative Connery, Democrat, of
Massachusetts,, who has been leading
the fight for full restoration and for
House approval of the Senate amend
ments on veterans benefits. Connery's
motion was to recede and concur in the
Senate amendment, but this motion
was split up on motion by Chairman
Buchanan of the House Apppropria-
tionS Committee, who wants the ques-
ton left open for decision in confer
ence.
BY refusing this afternoon to re-
cede from its amendment for per
cent Government pay restoration re-
troactive to February and another
S per cent effective July l, it was
indicated the House would send the
bill to conference. That will be the
case If the House takes the same posi-
ton on the veterans benefits.
The Senate's latest move yesterday
was to disagree to the changes the
House voted Tuesday on pay and
veterans, and to ask that the House
name conferees to meet with Senate
managers to work out their differences.
Even with the House argeeing to the
conference today, the deliberations
looking to a settlement of the long
pending issues are not expected to
start until early next week. Several
of the Senate conferees will be away
for the next day or two.
10 Days Delay Seen.
One of the Senate conferees indi-
Gated last night the conferences might
start Tuesday, assuming that the
House agrees to that procedure. AS
suming further that the conferees
reach an agreement within a few
days, their report would have to go
back to both House and Senate for
ratification, so it probably will be 10
days or longer before the measure can
be put in final shape and sent to the
President
When the bill first reached the
Senate, however, Senator McCarran,
Democrat, of Nevada, had his amend
ment adopted, requiring the S per
cent as of February /, and all OF the
remainder on July l.
The House on Tuesday, after re-
fusing to 60 directly to conference on
the pay and veterans sections, voted
in favor of the compromise pey plan.
which the Senate Appropriations