Evening star., 1935-03-10
Senate Leaders
Sure of Wage
Victory.
McCARRAN SAYS
PLAN WILL WIN
LOuisianan Seeks
to Block Action
for Coughlin.
BYG. GOULD LINCOLN.

Administration forces in the
Senate are planning to drive
ahead with the Presidents S4,-
S80,OOo,Ooo work relief bill this
week. Believing they have
enough votes to beat the Nc
Carran prevailing wage amend
ment, they will make every ef-
fort to get action.
The situation for the adminiStra-
tion forces. however, has been COM
plicated. so far as speedy action is
concerned, by the attack which Sen
stor Huey P. Long of Louisiana, in
surgent Democrat. is making upor
Postmaster General Farley. and the
action of the Senate PoStofficeS Com
mittee, which has placed Longs reso-
luton for Farley investigation or
the calendar with an adverse report
Long Prepares Attack.
The outlook for the coming week
in the Senate is for more and bitter
debate Long is expected to take the
floor tomorrow to denounce the Post
Offices Committee for turning down
his proposed investigation of Farley
Only by majority vote could the
Long resolution be brought before the
Senate for consideration and action
But that will not prevent its discus
sion while the relief bill is the un-
finished business.
Opinion at the Capitol was divided
last night on the wisdom of the course
adopted by the Postoffices Committee,
which recommended against the in
nuiry asked by Long. Some Senators
held the view that the committee had
played, politically speaking, into the
hands of Long Others declared the
committee had been amply justified in
refusing the investigation, since it had
not found facts to warrant further in
vestigation of the charges. In some
quarters the question was raised as to
whether Farley himself might not in
the end demand that the inquiry be
held.
Senate supporters of the McCarran
relief bill amendment were by no
means ready to admit defeat last
night. They have repeatedly pre-
dicted that some Senators who op-
posed the amendment when it was
first voted into the bill more than
two weeks ago will swing over to it
now. If they have such pledges, they
closely guarded them. Ever since it
became known that the two Senators
from Vermont. Austin and Gibson,
were planning to shift from support
Of the McCarran amendment to sup
port of the Presidents plan it has
been evident that unless McCarran
was able to get recruit or two from
the administration forces his amend
nent would be lost.
Compromise Is Likely.
If the amendment is voted down.
1t was predicted that efforts would
be made to adopt a compromise
perhaps the Reynolds amendment,
which would call for the payment OF
the prevailing wage on work relief
projects. This amendment, however,
would authorize the President TO re-
duce the scale should 1t appear that
the payment of the prevailing wage
was taking men from private industry
or preventing men from going to
private employment when jobs were
offered.
Should the amendment be voted
into the bill again. the likelihood is
that the measure would be passed in
that form and sent ID the House.
Representative Connery OF Massachu-
sets, chairman of the House Labor
Committee, said last night that if the
House we're ever gwen an oppor-
tunity to take record vote it would
adopt the prevailing Wase Pan.
Longs attack on Farley and the
resolution of inquiry now on the Sem
ate calendar with an adverse report
are likely to be made vehicle for
preventing a vote tomorrow or even
the next day on the McCarfan amend
ment. Long has no intention, it is
said, of permitting the vote until
after Father Charles E. Coughlin of
Detroit has made his radio address
tomorrow night. Fatae- Coughliu, like
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