Evening star., 1935-04-19

refused to strike from the social
security bill the section levying
taxes on incomes and pay rolls for
old-age annuities.
BY the Associated Press.
Three more attempts to write major
changes into the social security bill
were in store in the House today.
Administration leaders predicted the
House would reject them all, pass
the bill and send it to the Senate
before night. In an attempt to dc
this the House was called into ses-
sion an hour early.
The House swiftly and without con-
test approved the section of the bill
authorizing use of S4,000,000 next
fiscal year and S49,000,00,0 1000 each
year thereafter for ALLEGATION to States
to help pay the cost of administration
Of State job-insurance laws.
Then Representative Sauthof, Pro-
gressive. of Wisconsin attempted to
remove the S6-a-month limitation on
the amount the Federal Government
may grant to States for aid to de-
pendent children.
His amendment got 19 Republican.
Progressive and Farmer-Labor "ayes'
on a standing vote and so many noes"
that Representative McReynolds, Dem
ocrat, of Tennessee, who was presiding,
did not even bother to count them,
announcing the result as 100 to 10.
An amendment to authorize Federal
expenditure of S9,950, 900 for aid to
State agencies which help the blind
was proposed by Representative Jen-
kins. Republican, of Ohio.
The lone man who has been for
gotten" in the administrations bill,
he said, is ''the blind man with the
tin cup who stands on the street
corner"
Blind Held Provided For.
Chairman Doughton of the Ways
and Means Committee, however. said
jenkins amendment had been fully
discussed by the committee and st
was agreed that the blind already
are humanely and adequately taken
care Of
Thereupon the Democrats rejected
Jenkins amendment, 100 to 81.
Then, swiftly, the House approved
the title limiting Federal aid to Sc
a month and authorizing annual eX-
penditures of 24,750, 900 for depend
ent children.
While Republicans cried steam
roller" the Democratic machine turned
back 26 proposed amendments in
rapid-fire style yesterday. including
the Townsend $2o0-a-month pension
plan and the sweeping Lundeen plan
for the Federal Government to pay
at least $40 a week to the unemployed,
the aged and helpless.
The three tests Forthcoming today
were on proposed attempts To-:
/. Eliminate the sections levying
taxes on salaries and pay rolls for old
age annuities.
2. Strike out the taxes for unem-
ployment insurance.
8. Send the bill back to the Ways
and Means Committee with instruc-
tions to raise the Federal contribu-
tion for old-age pensions for the needy
from a maximum of SIS a month
to $50
The hackers of those amendments
conceded privately. They were de-
feated before they ever offered them.
But they said the amendments would
be offered just the same.
Republicans favoring the tax chang
es argued the bill would put greater
burden on industry than it could bear
One section of the bill levies taxes
which by 1949 would reach per cent
on wages and 8 per cent on pay rolls.
The money would be used to build up
ar eventual So, ,000, 900 fund, out
of which annuities of as much as $85
month would be paid to taxed
workers after they became IS.
That section, it Is estimated. would
cost employers and employes-each
paying half-S278, 100000 in 1887 and
$1,877 200, 900 in 1850.
In addition, an eventual 3 per cent
tax would be levied on employers of
more than 10 workers for unemploy-
ment insurance. That tax would be
S228, 900, 900 in 1886 and reach $685.
Co0,0o0 by 1850, estimates say.
Held Crushing Burden.
"These titles impose a crushing
burden upon industry and upon
labor" the Republican members of
the Ways and Means Committee con-
tended in their report to the House.
The Republicans were not partic-
ularly hopeful, although they refused
to give up. Yesterday, their organ
lied attempt to increase from SIS to
$40 a month the maximum Federal
contribution for pensions to needy
aged who have not contributed taxes
came nearer to handing a defeat to
the Democratic leaders than any
other amendment. The vote was Ia
to 80 against 1t.
Because of that comparatively mar
row difference, out Of a possible total
House vote of 432, the Republicans
intended when the parliamentary time
came to try to send the bill back to
the Ways and Means Committee. II
that motion should carry, it would be
tantamount to House vote for in
creasing the Federal contribution.