The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-24

i0ODtinutu FROM rage Onel
voted the $1,000 600 fund to develop
the trans Pacific service. Approving
unanimously an amendment to the
Treasury-Post Office appropriation
bill by Senator William Gibbs Nc
Adoo ID. Cali. But House con-
ferees on the bill refused to accept
the item. on the ground that it had
not been approved BY the budget
bureau and the Post Office Depart
ment.
Two days ago the House itself
refused, - to 20. to accept the
Senate amendment.
It's Up to Senate
The next move is up to the
Senate. Senator Carter Glass ID,
Va. has an opportunity to cut red
tape and is expected to do so by
calling on the Post Office Depart
ment to give formally the approval
which officials already have ex-
pressed informally. The Virginian,
chairman of the Senate ApprOpria-
tons Committee, may be able to
save the item. He says he will per-
NIT no action until Senator Nc
Adoo, sponsor OF the appropriation,
who is III, returns to the Senate.
Unless the Senate fights for the
aviation fund, the proposed appro-
priation will have TO go through the
tedious, tOrtuOus course of the de-
f1ciency bill, the annual catch-all,
which will be brought forward at
the end Of the session. This is the
course proposed by Rep. Arnold 3D.,
I'D. chairman Of the House Sub
committee on -Postoff1ce
Appropriations and head Of the
House conferees, who blocked the
appropriation in the House.
Deficiency bills usually find Con-
gress weary, anxious to quit and go
home. The consequence is that i'm
portant appropriations are often
left out.
Speed ALI Important
This is what makes action on the
100000 appropriation seem all
important to supporters of Ameri-
can commercial aviation who see in
the trans-Paciflc service a chance
for the United States to step far in
the lead.
The hesitancy of Congress is
somewhat hard to understand. Post
master General Farley expressed
the hope in his last annual report
that he could record the successful
operation of a trans-Pacific air
service a year later. He has advised
members of Congress recently that
he favors the appropriation.
Mr.. Farley must share some of the
responsibility for Congress failure
to act. for he had nearly a month in
which to study the appropriation
and could have interviewed long ago.
All Up to Government
Meanwhile, the Pan-American
Always are going forward with
their plans. spending $500 a day in
preparing the route and equipment.
Their supply boat is anchored out
side Wake Island. A landing field
is being prepared at this island. one
of the stops on the way to Canton
via Guam and the Philippines.
Juan T. Trippe. president of Pan
American, who has strung airways
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
to South America. already is oper-
ating 5000 miles in China in con-
junction with the Chinese govern
ment. with 25 planes flying regular
routes. =.
The trans-Pacific airway is the
vital connecting link between the
United States and the Orient. AL
ready Great Britain, France and
Holland are pushing toward China
in the effort to capture the COM
mercial prizes there. Americans
have the advantage now, but they
can lose it unless the government
supports the new venture.