Evening star., 1935-03-07
COMMITTEE 231
FOR V|NSON BILL
House Group Agrees Pat
man Measure May Be Of.
fered as Substitute.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee voted % to / today to submit
the Vinson bonus payment bill to the
House. but agreed to procedure under
which the Patman currency expansion
method OF payment may be offered as
a substitute on the floor.
Chairman Doughton said, however,
that the formal report on the bonus
would not be submitted to the House
until next Monday. Therefore it would
be Tuesday or Wednesday before the
question could be brought to vote.
Payment Method Test.
The committee today by a vote of
IA to 10. instructed Doughton to ask
the Rules Committee to let the House
have direct vote on whether it pre-
ferred the Patman or the Vinson
methods of payment.
The Vinson bill, which has the sup
port of the American Legion. simply
authorizes an appropriation out Of
general Treasury funds, whereas the
Patman bill would direct the issuance
Of sufficient new currency to buy up
adjusted compensation certificates.
Strategy aimed at preventing the
House from voting on the currency
expansion method was discussed by
some Representatives opposed to in
flation.
Democratic leaders meanwhile stuck
to their promise that the House will
be given an opportunity to choose
between bills.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee voted. IA to IL. yesterday to
prepare the Vinson measure for sub
mission to the House.
Sees Advantage in House.
But some of the foes of imitation
privately expressed the opinion today
that ordinary parliamentary procedure
would give the currency expansion
plan an advantage on the floor.
They said the usual procedure would
be to let the House vote first on
motion to substitute the Patman bill
for the Vinson proposal. They added
that they fear the House will approve
the first bonus measure on which it
has an opportunity to vote.
This group talked of using unusual
parliamentary tactics, If an oppor-
tunity appears, to prevent a direct
vote for or against the currency ex-
pansion plan of payment
As the Ways and Means Committee
went ahead with preparation of the
Vinson measure some Patmanites in
terpreted the committees vote on it
as an indication that their bill finally
will win out. They said 10 committee
Democrats and one Republican voted
for the Patman proposal against eight
Democrats and six Republicans for the
other plan. They argued this lineup
indicated the Patman measure will be
supported by large majority of the
321 House Democrats plus Republican
liberals. Progressives and Farm
Laborites.
Belgrano Sees Victory.
Frank N. Belgrano, jr., national
commander of the American Legion,
said in a statement last night that
"the committee voted for the veterans"
by approving the Vinson bill.
1--WE are confident that this action
means that the adjusted service GER
tificates will be paid at full face value
in this session of Congress" he added.
Although calling the committees
vote long stride in the right d.
rection," James E. Van Zandt. COM
mander of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars, criticized some members OF the
committee, who. he said, voted for the
Vinson bill because they felt it was
the easiest way to kill all so-called
bonus legislation at this session"