Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27
House Asked 10 Act
On Logan-WaIter Bill
AS Passed by Senate
Acceptance Of Changes
Would Send Measure
To President; Veto Seen
(Sy the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Encouraged by O. surprisingly sud-
den Senate victory, Logan-Walter
bill advocates today strove to hasten
final congressional action by asking
the House to accept bodily all Sem
ate changes in the measure.
Representative Walter, Democrat,
Of Pennsylvania requested that the
Senate amendments be submitted to
the House for approval when it re-
eonveneS tomorrow. If he carries
his point and the amendments are
accepted, the measure will go to the
White House, where a veto already
has been forecast.
Senate Democratic Leader Bark
ley, who predicted President Roose-
Felt would veto the controversial
measure, said he believed the Senate
would sustain the President in that
event.
Senator Barley opened the way
for the bills 27-to-25 victory in the
Senate yesterday when he abruptly
abandoned his previous strategy OF
delay and said he was ready for a
khowdown vote. Until then, expec-
tations were that consideration OF
ehe measure would be protracted.
Passed by House In Spring.
Passed last spring by the House
hnd subsequently revamped in some
maj or respects by the Senate Judici-
hry Committee, the measure would
BET up uniform standards Of con-
duct for many quasi-judicial Gov
ernment bureaus, with such notable
Exceptions as the Interstate Com
lnerce Commission, Trade Commits
eion, lending agencies and others.
1t would broaden the base for ap-
peals from decisions Of the affected
agencies. but. as amended by the
Senate, would limit such appeals to
parties having a substantial interest
bn the case in point. Opponents had
charged that the House bill would
permit frivolous appeals which
would paralyze the work of impor-
tant Government agencies such as
the Labor Board.
In announcing his decision to per-
init an immediate vote Senator
Barley told the Senate yesterday
he was convinced the measure would
fhamstring" many bureaus.
1t was his contention that much
better legislation could be obtained
by waiting until January, when a
committee studying the question
would have reported.
Three Day Recesses Agreed On.
Nevertheless, he announced his
readiness for a vote. When it came,
administration leaders summoned
the full strength of their absentee
depleted ranks in an effort to defeat
the bill, but fell two votes short.
Ten Democrats joined Is Repub-
1icans and a Farmer-Laborite to
tally the winning majority. Twen-
ty-fve Democrats voted in the neg
htive.
With this measure temporarily out
of the way, the Senate agreed in
formally to take three-day recesses
until it had business before it and
none seemed to be in prospect.
Chairman Thomas of the Senate
Labor Committee said it would be
Impossible to bring House-approved
amendments to the Wagner Act be-
fore the body-a situation Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio. said had
developed simply because "a ma
jority of the committee is opposed to
action"
Senator Taft later told reporters
he had no hope that action could
be obtained this session because, as
he termed it. the Senate would be
lin state of suspended animation"
for the remainder of the year.