Evening star., 1935-05-15
Lower Branch Reported Fa-
VorabIe to TWo-Year Plan
of President.
FIGHT MAY CONTINUE
PAST JUNE 16 LIMIT
Miss Perkins and Swope Urge
Roosevelt Program After
Conference.
| BY the Associated Press.
A deadlock threatened today over

BY the Associated Press.
A deadlock threatened today over
extension of the N. R. A.
Senate administration leaders in
sisted they would hold out for the
1O-month extension approved by the
Senate. House Democratic chiefs
gave no indication they would accept
anything less than the two years de-
sired by President Roosevelt.
Il feel certain" Speaker Byrns told
reporters, that the House is disposed
to insist upon two-year extension.
THE attitude as see it is this: If
the N. r. A. is worth extending at all.
it is worth extending two years; if it
isn't. it ought to be junked.
I'VE will take the bill up in the
House as soon as the Ways and Means
Committee finishes with it. I hope
the committee will report it in prop
erly-modif1ed form in few days.
There will be no necessity, feel
sure, to use a gag rule to get it
through the House"
Support for a two-year extension
and revision of N R. A. was given
today at the White House by Secre-
tary Perkins and Gerard Swope Of
the Business Advisory Council after
a talk with President Roosevelt.
Will Press for Action.
There was every indication that the
administration would press for the
House to substitute the presidential
two-year recommendation for the
Senate resolution adopted yesterday
merely extending N. r. A. in its pres
ent form until next April.
Miss Perkins and Swope submitted
the report Of the Business Advisory
Council to President Roosevelt, rec
ommending the fundamental prin-
cipleS of the social security program,
but proposing some changes in the
legislation passed by the House.
The Secretary of Labor described
the, councils report as constructive"
and said she concurred in the recon-
mendations of many Of the changes
proposed.
Swope said the council would make
public the report in day or so.
He added that he knew of no crit
icism within the council of delay in
making public the report.
On Capitol Hill a deadlock threat
ened over N. R. A. extension.
Harrison Stands Pat.
Chairman Harrison of the Senate
Finance Committee had warned that
if the House changed the Senate's 10
month extension to two years, and the
measure went to conference. he would
refuse to accept the change and let
the Senate vote on the issue.
Indications were that the House
would not pass the bill for week or
10 days. That would leave three weeks
or less for final action before the
June Is dead line, the day the N. I.
R. A. expires.
The Senate measure, exemptlng
wholly intrastate business from the
codes. was discussed at a conference
of Democratic members Of the
House Ways and Means Committee
and Charles H. West, former Ohio
House member, who is now a CON
tact man" for the President.
Donald R. Richberg, chairman Of
the governing board of N. r. A,
was reported 70 be drafting a deflni-
ton of interstate business, for sub
mission to the committee, which would
permit application of codes to husi-
nesses competing across State lines.
There was no indication, however,
that the House members would try to
make the new N. R. A. applicable to
the thousands of small establishments
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