Evening star., 1935-08-26
Appropriation
. Group Takes
Over Bill.
VINSON FIGHTS
MOVE In VAIN
Test Vote Hints
Roosevelt Victory
on Cotton, Wheat.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The House today adopted a CONCUR
rent resolution for the adjournment
OF Congress today
Prior to that Speaker Byrns re-
ferred the third deficiency bill, which
carries the controverted cotton and
wheat loan amendments, to the Com
mittee on Appropriations.
The action of the House and of the
Speaker was opposed in vain by Rep
resentative VinSon, Democrat. OF
Georgia, who apparently was repre-
eenting the cotton States bloc.
The next move on the part OF the
House was to recess, subject to the
call of Speaker Byrns, who announced
he might call the House in session
again within three or four hours.
Senate in Recess.
In the meantime, the Senate al
ready had recessed until pm. on
motion of Senator Robinson of Arkan-
sas, the Democratic leader.
Immediately thereafter, six Demo-
cratic Senators went to the White
House to confer with the President
regarding the cotton and wheat loan
amendments to the deficiency bill.
which blocked final adjournment OF
Congress on Saturday
These Senators were Robinson of
Arkansas, Harrison of Mississippi,
Black of Alabama, Connally of Texas,
Smith of South Carolina and Byrnes
of South Carolina.
octioo foL bIy IJOl1Sa
day when it adopted a new adjourn
ment resolution was the first test in
the House since adjournment was
blocked by Senate action Saturday at
midnight.
Representative Vinson first moved
to lay the adjournment resolution on
the table, but was defeated by a vote
of 178 to At. He tried to obtain a
roll call vote on his motion, but was
unsuccessful and the vote announced
was standing vote.
Defeated Again.
The adjournment resolution was Of
fered by Representative Taylor of
Colorado. acting Democratic floor
leader. Vinson was unable to OBJ
tain a roll call vote on the adjourn
ment resolution itself, which was
adopted on standing vote, l72 to At.
When the House assembled, quo
rum call was answered by 306 mem
bers. Representative Buchanan of
Texas, chairman of the Appropria-
tions Committee, asked unanimous
consent to address the House for 80
minutes. Representative Vinson asked
whether the supporters of the cot
ton and wheat loan amendments
would be given similar time to ad-
dress the House
Buchanan replied that was mat
ter wholly within the hands of the
House This brought an objection
from cotton State members to the re-
quest of Buchanan.
Without further delay, Buchanan,
In brief statement, asked that the
deficiency bill be referred to the Ap-
preparations Committee. He insisted
that the Senate had added the cotton
and wheat loan amendments to the
bill late Saturday afternoon and that
these amendments might require a
billion or even two billion dollars.
Speaker Acts.
"These are momentous amend
ments," said Buchanan. They should
be given ample consideration by the
committee. I ask that the Speaker
refer the bill to the committee"
THE Chair" said Speaker Byrns,
"feels that the deficiency bill should
be referred to the committee. Amend
ments of tremendous Importance have
been added to it, which the commit
tee or a subcommittee should have
an opportunity to examine and to
hold hearings"
The Speaker said that he was fol-
lowing precedent in using his author
ity to refer the bill to the committee,
and called attention to the fact that
the late Speaker Longworth had taken
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