Evening star., 1935-05-05
vinson Proposal Is Expected
to Triumph Over Harri-
son Compromise.
LEADERS ARE HOPEFUL
FOR VOTE BY WEDNESDAY
Economic Security May Be Next
of Major Administration Bills
to Be Considered.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The Senate begins its weekly inning
tomorrow with the soldiers bonus at
the bat and N. r. A. on deck.
The economic security bill may be
the next Of the major Administration
measures to reach the Upper House
for consideration. The Senate Finance
Committee, which has already held
hearings on the measure, has been
called to meet at 10 o'clock tomor-
row morning to consider it in execu-
tive session.
Senate leaders hope to conclude
consideration and action on the bonus
bill by Tuesday or Wednesday. The
Clark joint resolution to extend the
N. R. A. until April, 1896, will follow.
Fairly rapid progress with the bonus
bill was made in the Senate, follow
ing the laying aside of the Wagner
Costigan anti-lynching bill last week.
A vote on the Vinson bill, amended
to appropriate $2,263, 900 900 to pay
of the veterans Immediately, offered
as a substitute for the Harrison
compromise bonus bill is expected
tomorrow.
Victory for Legion Seen.
1t is generally believed that the
Vinson bill, backed by the American
Legion, will prevail over the Harrison
measure, although the latter was re-
ported favorably by the Finance Com
mittee as a substitute for the Patman
"greenback" bonus bill, the House
measure. Then will come the tug Of
war between the Vinson and Patman
bills.
Again, it is expected, the Vinson
bill will win. Only could the Patman
bill prevail II enough of the Admin
istration Senators swing to the green
back measure. They would do SO, II
at all, merely in the belief that a
presidential veto of this inf1ationary
measure could more easily be sus-
tanned than a veto Of the Vinson bill.
In the jockeying over the bonus, this
proposal to put the Patman bill
through Is being seriously considered.
Since the House has already passed
the Patman bill, If the Senate accepts
it, the measure could be hurried to
the White House without going
through the conference stage and the
President given opportunity to exer-
else his veto power without delay.
House May Yield.
II on the other hand the Senate
finally passes the Vinson bill it will
60 to conference with the House. So
close was the vote, in the House as
between the Vinson and Patman
measures that it is believed the House
would yield and permit final agree
ment on the Vinson bill, particularly
If the vote by which the Senate pre-
fers the Vinson bill to the Patman is
substantial.
The inf1ationists in the Senate are
prepared to make last stand for the
Patman bill, but their speeches will
not, it is said, consume a great deal
of time.
How many votes will be cast against
the final passage of the bonus bill
in the Senate, whether it be the Vim
son or the Patman bill, is agitating
the leaders. Not more than 20 to IS
Senators will vote mo" on the roll
call, it was predicted by one Of the
leaders, if the Vinson bill is the
choice of a majority. This same
leader expressed the opinion that If
the Vinson bill Is vetoed, there may
be chance of its being passed despite
the disapproval of the President, with
the necessary two-thirds vote of the
Senate and House. This is fatty de-
MED, however, by Senator Harrison
Of Mississippi, chairman Of the
Finance Committee The Patman
bill, it is urged, would have no real
chance Of passing over veto.
Threaten New Taxes.
President Roosevelt has threatened
to demand the passage of new and
additional tax legislation If a bonus
bill is passed-except the compromise
bill sponsored by Harrison.
The Supreme Court has stolen the
center Of the stage SO far as the N. r.
A. is concerned. It has concluded the
hearing Of arguments in the Schech-
ter case, involving the constitutional
ity of the N. r. A. law and its
opinion in the case is expected to
be handed down before the court takes
its Summer recess the first week in
June. If the court holds the law
unconstitutional, the administration
and Congress will be faced with the
need of evolving a new law to meet
the courts objections. or the whole
N. r. A. system will 60 into the
discard.
Nevertheless, the Senate plans to
go ahead now with the Joint resolution
to extend the life Of the N. r. A.
until next April, with bans against
price fixing under the codes Of fair
competition and against having the
codes apply to business that Is
strictly intra-state. The House will
wait upon Senate, and final action
on any legislation is not expected
until after the decision Of the Su-
preme Court in the Schechter case has
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