Evening star., 1936-06-19
Conference Report Is Rati-
fled Following Similar Ac-
ton in Senate Yesterday.
FIare-up Marks Debate.
SUPPLY MEASURE LAST
ON CONGRESS SCHEDULE
Blanton Praised by Cannon for
Efforts to Keep Down Appro-
priations-Texan Thanks Co.
Workers for Aid in Settling
Disputes Over Items.

The 1887 District appropriation bill
cleared its final legislative hurdle to-
day and headed for the White House
for the signature of President Roose-
welt.
Finishing touches were applied to
the measure by the House with ratifi-
cation of conference report approved
yesterday by the Senate. The Presi-
dent earlier had expressed pleasure at
the agreement reached.
The bill Is the final supply measure
to go through Congress at the current
session due to a prolonged conference
deadlock over the amount the Federal
Government should pay toward Dis
trict expenses.
In approving the conference re-
port the House receded from it's ada
mant stand on the amount of the
Federal lump-sum payment and ac-
cepted compromise s5,000,000 figure.
1t likewise approved Senate changes
that permit pay patients to enter the
Children's tuberculosis Sanatorium
and increasing from 20 to IS the
number of additional men to be al
lowed the Police Department.
FIare-up Marks Debate.
Debate on the conference report
was marked by a fare-up over the
investigation undertaken by Repre-
sentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas
to ascertain the religious, political and
economic beliefs of the plublic school
teachers.
Blanton, who acted as chairman
of the House Conference Committee,
in hoarse voice called up the con-
ference report and extended his
thanks to the conferees who worked
with him in settling the dispute over
the controversial issues in the bill.
The condition of Blanton's throat
was one Of the reasons he gave for
not calling up the report at last
nights session of the House.
Cannon, chairman of the Conference
Committee on the bill, returned Blan-
tons compliment and praised the
Texan for his efforts to keep down
appropriations. He pointed out that
the bill as finally passed exceeds the
Budget Bureau recommendation by a
greater amount than he could re-
member.
President Roosevelt expressed par
ticular pleasure this morning with
the provision for a survey OF
fiscal relations between the Dis
trict and Federal governments to be
made this Fall and reported to Con-
gress in January. He said he always
felt there should be some compre-
hensive study of the question.
This proposed survey" MIR. Roose-
welt said, when asked for his opinion,
will be entirely satisfactory to me.
This course would be better than
merely a survey of the tax question in
the District Of Columbia"
The President made no further
comment about the other features OF
the agreement to break the deadlock
on the legislation. He said he was
not familiar with the details OF the
compromise, but had no hesitancy In
saying when it was explained to him
about the fiscal relation study, that
he was satisfied.
Frowned on Continuing Resolution.
Mr. Roosevelt had frowned on
plans for a continuing resolution to
carry on the District government in
the event no compromise could have
been reached. He had made it plain
throughout the battle between the
Senate and House conferees that he
favored $5,70O,000 as the Federal
Governments share of the District
expense, but, without saying so, he
indicated today that he, like many
others, is happy to see the contro-
versy cleared up.
Threat of substitution of q contin-
uing resolution, which would have put
the District on a bare subsistence
budget In the coming fiscal year and
prevent all proposed capital improve
ments, was wiped out yesterday by
sudden action of the conferees and
the Senate itself.
The stage was set in the House last
night for concurrence with the Sen
ate approval of the conference report,
(See D. c. BILL, Page g.