Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-14
Resolution for Extension Is
Sent to Roosevelt for
Signature.
REPUBLICANS CoNCEDE
DEFEAT IN OPPOSITION
Michigan Representative Charges
Passage Under Rare Type
of Gag Rule.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Racing against Sunday night dead
line, the House today speedily agreed
10 Senate amendments to the resolu-
ton extending an abbreviated N. r. A.
TO next April l and sent the measure
to President Roosevelt for his sigma
ture.
Passage came after only 40 minutes
Of listless debate.
The vote for the N. r. A. resolution
was 33s to 80.
Not even the full hour Of allowed
debate was utilized, the Republicans
apparently conceding that their at
tempts to defeat the huge House DEM
ocratic majority would be unsuccess-
full.
Rarified Type of Gag.
When the special resolution accept
ing the Senate amendment to the
measure was called up, Representative
Kitchener, Republican, of Michigan
remarked:
UNLESS I am misinformed only one
rule like this has ever been brought
before the House This is a rarified
type of gag rule"
The Harrison Borah antitrust
amendment, said Representative Jen-
kins, Republican, Of Ohio, improves
the bill"
I'VE Republicans contend" he as
serted, that the N. R. A. either should
be continued or allowed to die and not
extend in this half-dead shape"
Jenkins added that the President
will never live long enough to stop
wishing that he could withdraw the
remarks he made about a constitu-
tional amendment" replacing N. R. A.
Most of the talk was about the
Borah antitrust amendment, but the
Democrats, among them Chairman
Doughton of the Ways and Means
Committee. held that it adds nothing
to and subtracts nothing from the
House bill"
The real purpose of the extension.
Doughton asserted, was to give
further time for a further study" Of
what could be done since the court
held N r. A. unconstitutional.
The Borah amendment, which the
Senate tackled on the N. r. A. bill
shortly after dawn yesterday, had
been approved by House leaders yes
terday after a White House confer
ence. The Idaho Senator offered it TO
prevent what he would consider a too
great relaxation of antitrust laws
in connection with voluntary agree
ments by business.
The House leaders made a futile
attempt yesterday to get unanimous
consent for House acceptance Of the
Borah amendment. Representative
Smell of New York, the minority
leader. remarked:
Il we'll appreciate the fact that a
technical objection would only delay
this measure a few hours. If could
defeat it, certainly would object be-
cause majority of the people on our
side of the aisle are opposed to it. But
1 shall not make a useless gesture"
Then Representative Rich. Repub-
lican, of Pennsylvania, began lecture
to the effect that 1t is time for the
members of the House TO begin think
ing for themselves
Rich's Objection Hurdled.
Chairman of the Rules Committee
O'Connor quickly interrupted with a
parliamentary demand under which
Rich either had to stop talking or OBJ
iect. He objected.
That simply delayed things, for IS
minutes later the Rules Committee met
and approved the special resolution
accepting the Senate amendment.
After N. r. A.. the House program
called for a short debate on the bill
to extend the Office of transportation
co-ordinator, held by Joseph B. East
man.
Bill Hits Complications.
This bill, already passed by the
Senate. was one of the must" meas
ures on which Mr.. Roosevelt asked
speedy action in a conference with
leaders yesterday.
There was a complication in that
task, for the House Interstate Com
merce Committee has amended the
Senate bill striking out an assessment
levied on class l railroads to pay
the co-ordinator's expenses. II the
House should approve that change, the
bill would have to go back to the
Senate.
Two other measures on which the
President desires speed are the Guffey
bill to regulate the soft coal industry
with a little N. r. A" and the
Wagner labor relations bill Demo-
cratic committee chiefs in the House
indicated they would seek to comply.