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the proceeds are to go to cam
paign funds.
Hatch Drafted Original.
The Senate amendments were
drafted originally by Senator Hatch,
Democrat, of New Mexico and par
TALLY adopted by the Approprla-
tions Committee before the bill was
reported. On the Senate floor yes
terday, however, they were given
much wider scope, when on mo-
ton of Majority Leader Barkley
the rules numbered l and were
made to apply to ''other acts OF
Congress as we'll as to the relief
appropriation.
This was construed as extend
ing protection against coercion ana
solicitation of campaign contribu-
tions not only to all Government
employees but to State employees
who are paid in full or in part from
Federal aid funds.
Senate Names COnferees.
Before adjourning until Wednes-
dav. the Senate last night named lts
conferees, as follows: Senators
Adams, Glass of Virginia, Mcclellan
of Tennessee, Hayden OF Arizona
and Byrnes of South Carolina, Dem
ocrats. and Hale of Maine and
Townsend of Delaware, Republicans.
In the House, where the bill Is III
charge of Representative Woodfum
of Virginia. conferees probably Will
be appointed tomorrow, he said. A
conference agreement probably Will
be worked out within week, since
the new relief money will be needed
by February 7.
In addition to the anti-polltlcal
amendments, the cOnfereeS also holo
the final decision on whether large
number of employees in a dozen or
more Government agencies OUTSIDE
of the Works Progress Admlnlstra-
ton are to be made eligible Tor
civil service status under the eXecu-
tive order of last June, or have that
status denied them because their
salaries happen to come from FUNDS
allocated for Federal projects out
of the relief bill.
In original form, the bill would
have denied civil service status 10
any one paid from the w. P. A. ap-
propriation. In the House, however,
an exemption from this ban was ap-
proved for employees doing work out
of relief funds, but in such regular
agencies as the General Accounting
Office, Treasury, Justice, Employ
ment Service, Employees Compensa-
ton Commission and several others.
Exemptions Struck Out.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee struck out these House eX-
emptions, and. while the Senate dld
not restore them yesterday, 1t &C
cepted a proviso offered by Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama
to the effect that if the House ex-
emption is restored in conference, 1t
would apply also to similar group
of employees in the Agriculture De-
partment, that was overlooked when
the bill was being considered in
the House. This leaves for further
consideration by the confereeS the
question of whether to restore the
exemption the House had allowed.
On motion of Senator Hayden,
Democrat, of Arizona the Senate
late yesterday made $4,000, 900 in
stead of S23,000,000 of the new ap-
preparation available to continue for
the rest of this year the Federal
projects in various Government de-
partmentS for which $60000,00 was
made available in the 1888 relief act.
In this connection, Senator Nc
Carran, Democrat, of Nevada won
approval for an amendment to ear
mark $30O0,000 of this money for
employment by the Railway Retire
ment Board of unemployed persons
who have had long experience in
railroad statistical and clerical work.
Discussion Was Brief.
Only brief discussion preceded
adoption of the political amend
ments, on which Senator Hatch has
been working for some time He
led the unsuccessful fight for a ban
on political activity in the last relief
act in June. 1888. The move was
strengthened this year by recon-
mendations in the report of the SEN
ate Campaign Expenditures Com
nittee.
There was prolonged debate YES
terday, however, on w. P. A. wage
standards before the Senate finally