Evening star., 1938-06-16
57.l8 Vote Stays
, Legislation to
June, 1910.
$4,000, 900 BARRIER
PROLONCS SESSION
COnferees Seek Accord
on Deficiency Bill
Increase.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
While Congress continued its ef-
forts to adjourn by nightfall, the bill
to continue low interest rates on GER
tain Federal farm loans became law
this afternoon when the Senate voted
to override President Roosevelt,s veto.
The vote was 81 to 10. The House
had taken similar action late yester-
day. voting 244 to 81, to override the
Presidents objections.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen
ator Gillette and Representative Bier
mann, both Iowa Democrats, will con-
tinue through June 80, 1910, the 3la
per cent interest rate on certain land
bank loans and the per cent interest
On land bank commissioners loans.
In vetoing the bill, Mr.. Roosevelt
had said it would cost total of
e2os, TOO, 900.
$4,000, 900 Blocks Close.
The action was the first taken to-
day by members of the first 2,000,-
O00,0 peace-time Congress who now
are fretting and fuming over a $10,-
100000 barrier that stopped their
pell-mell rush to adjourn.
A conference committee of Repre-
senatives and Senators struggled man.
fully to level this obstacle in time for
= final wind-up tonight Some con-
ferees said they were making prog
ress."
The barrier consisted of a handful
Of last-minute appropriations written
into the third deficiency bill. The
measure as passed by the House car
ried allotments totaling $279, 900, 900.
The Senate added $4,000, 900 to that.
When the two branches agree as to
hcw much Of that $4,000 900 shall be
3eft In the bill finally passed, the
weary Congressman can 60 home.
Two Major Bills Out Of Way.
Already out of the way were most
major pieces Of legislation. The wage
hour bill awaited President Roosevelt's
consideration. Even controversial
Hood control legislation. over which d
filibuster threatened yesterday, was at
the White House
The Senate agreed today to House.
approved formula for distributing
$2l2,000,000 of farm benefit payments
provided in the $3,753, ,000,0 900 spend
ing-lending bill. The measure is ex-
pected to go to the White House some
time during the day.
Some legislators, weary after night
and early morning sessions, were hope
full Of adjournment by dinner time to-
night. Others, cognizant of the pos
sibility Of a last-minute outbreak of
speechmaking, abandoned such hopes
= House Convenes Early.
With the House meeting at 10 am.
in hopes of leaving itself time for the
usual adjournment festivities on the
floor, the Senate waited until noon to
convene. and faced the possibility Of a
private fight over resolution to in
vestigate the use of public funds for
election purposes.
The Senate Audit Committee, COM
promising resolution for separate
inquiry into any complaints that the
w. P. A. Is playing politics, proposed
instead an investigation into the use
Of any Federal or State money in cam
paigns.
Senator King, Democrat, Of Utah
criticized the committee compromise
yesterday, and served notice he would
try to force consideration of his own
resolution for an independent study of
the administration OF work relief
funds.
The delay in adjournment, originally
planned yesterday, held up President
Roosevelt's departure for the wedding
Of his son John at Nahant, Mass, Sat-
urday. The Chief Executive remained
at his desk to act on the final sheaf
Of bills, but will depart by special
train shortly after Vice President Gar
ner and Speaker Bankhead whack
their gavels for the last time.
The President, in vetoing the meas
tire to continue low interst rates on
farm loans, said the land bank inter-
est reductions would cost the Treas
ury $143.500,0o0 by July, 1899, and
that if they were extended until July,
fl040, the cost would be $i83, 900, 900.
The land bank commissioner loans,
he said, would cost s24,800,o00 if the
low rate was extended to July, 1910.
The measure would affect 634,373
borrowers of $2,o25 ,0o0, 900 land bank
funds. Such loans are made on
farms. Land bank commissioners
loans. which constitute short-term ex-
tensions Of credit on livestock and
crops, total $790,771, 900. The num-
ber Of borrowers was reported at 453,-
2fos~
Last year Mr.. Roosevelt vetoed q
similar extension Of the low rate on
land bank loans and reduction Of
the commissioners loan rate, but was
overridden by Congress.
In returning the measure to Con-
gress yesterday the President said:
"The burden of interest charges on
. typical farmer who refinanced his 6
per cent private loan with a Federal
land bank in 1888 would appear to be
less on the basis of present prices, and
the emergency Federal land bank in
terest rate of per cent provided for
under present law less than the bur-
den which was carried by the same
farmer on his old loan during the pc
fiod 1910-19l4, or during the period
1921-1930."
Working listlessly until dinner time
last night, the House transacted minor
!. business. The Senate, after much de-
bate, sent the compromise $37s. 1000. 900
flood control bill to the White House.