Evening star., 1937-12-16
BULLETIN.

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By the Associated Press.
Administration leaders in Congress
tried hard today to complete the writ
ing Of farm and wages and hours bills,
but Speaker Bankhead said there was
little chance either would reach the
White House before the special session
ends next week.
The speaker said he was informed
the Senate hoped to pass its crop con-
troll bill within few days. The House
is struggling over a wages and hours
measure.
Passage of the farm bill by the Sen
ate and Of the labor bill by the House,
however, must be followed by confer
ences between committees Of the two
Houses to compose differences in their
bills.
House in Warm Debate.
A new attempt to discard the ad-
minstration-backed wage-hour bill in
favor Of an entirely different measure
plunged the House into heated debate
Immediately after it convened ut noon,
emphasizing Bankheads pessimism.
Representative Lamneck, Democrat,
of Ohio offered the substitute. 1t
would empower the Federal Trade
Commission to declare employment of
workers under "substandard" labor
conditions an unfair method Of COM
petition.
The administration measure would
place administration of wages and
hours standards in the hands of a
special five-man board Another pro-
posal, on which the House has yet to
vote, would place control in the Labor
Department.
The Senate, meanwhile, debated a
substitute by Senator Lee. Democrat.
OF Oklahoma for the cotton control
provisions of its pending farm bill.
Neither bill can be sent to the White
House before the special session ends
December % unless there is almost
unprecedented speed in conference
negotiations between Senate and
House, but the floor managers still
were trying.
Say worst Is Over"
House leaders, successful in warding
of the first Of several suggested sub
stitutes for the wage-hour bill, said
'the worst is over" The vote which
encouraged them was a 162-to-l3I
rejection Of the American Federation
Of Labor's proposal.
That measure, offered by Represent
ative Griswold, Democrat, of Indiana,
would have written into the law a
maximum work week of 40 hours and
minimum wages of 40 cents an hour
for all industries in interstate COM
merce.
The committee bill would leave set
ting Of the standards to an admin
istrator in the Labor Department act
ing on the recommendations of inves-
tigating committees for each industry.
Besides the other proposed substi-
tutes, there was movement
acknowledged to be strong-to send
the bill back to the Labor Committee
for revision. Both Democratic Leader
Rayburn and Democratic Whip Boland
forecast that attempt would fail.
Amended for Exemptions.
Friends OF the bill expressed greater
concern over strength demonstrated
for exemptions from the wage-hour
standards. They noted that before
the A. F. of L. substitute had been
defeated it had been amended to pro-
vide for broad exemptions.
BY big margins, the House voted
to exclude professors Of all agricultural
commodities from the bills provisions.
The votes were taken during q
tumultuous session yesterday that
lasted past the dinner hour. 1t started
with intricate parliamentary maneu-
vers which friends Of the measure
characterized as filibusterinx and
ended with opposition criticism Of the
administrations procedure.
Charges Debate Cut on.
Representative Martin of Massachu-
sets, assistant Republican leader, said
the procedure In the House was
typical Of the House leadership In
recent years" He charged debate on
the A. r. of L. substitute had been
cut OF.
The Senate spent most Of . night
session-the first this fall-arguing
over division Of the farm bills cotton
allotments within States. It finally
rejected, 47-l9, a proposal to consider
titled lands and human population In
aliocating quotas, and left In effect
the present basis Of ALLEGATION on past
production. ~... BIS
Earlier It approved unanimously
an amendment BY Democratic Leader
Barkley to Limit administrative costs.