Evening star., 1941-03-20
BY the Associated Press.

Backed by the humping BIZ
partisan House majority of 336 to
55, the ,O00000,000 British-aid
appropriation bill went to the Sem
ate side of the Capitol today. whers
administration leaders confidently
predicted it would get prompt in
dorsement early next week.
Responding to appeals for unity
to show the world the United States
was whole -heartedly behind the aid
program, an irresistible coalition of
House Democrats and Republicans
sent the record-breaking peacetime
bill to the Senate last night with
out single change.
Getting ready TO match the House
record for swift preliminary action,
Senate Appropriations Subcom-
mittee decided to start hearings on
the measure this afternoon and
called various Army officials as the
first witnesses.
Strategy Mapped.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
and other Democratic chiefs. who
mapped their strategy yesterday
while the House still was busily
beating down every effort to amend
the bill, forecast it would be ap-
proved by the Senate subcommittee
tomorrow and pass the Senate with.
out change Monday or Tuesday.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, Of
South Carolina, one of the Demo-
cratic strategistS, said he had heard
of no substantial effort to impede
the bill or to amend it substan-
TALLY. Chairman George of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee looked for passage by Monday
night.
One hint of Senate feeling was
given by Senator Taft, Republican,
of Ohio, who fought the original
lease-lend bill to the last. Now
that the program has been adopted,
he said. What We ought to do IS
send Great Britain all the aid pro.
vided under the bill"
Senator Taft informed reporters
that he might not even offer his
proposal to cut the aid appropria-
ton to s3,50O,0Oo 900 and limit its
spending to the fiscal year which
ends June 80, 1912.
Clark Stands Firm.
However, Senator Clark. Demo-
crat, of Missouri, one of Senator
rats colleagues in the lease-lend
fight, announced he would vote
against the appropriation. He
charged that its enactment would
double taxes in the next year.
The informal cloakroom opinion
meanwhile was that the $1,000 .OOO.-
600 fund would get Senate approval
by an even better margin than the
6O-to-31 vote registered for the
lease-lend bill.
The Houses performance encour-
aged that belief. When the House
approved the original measure Feb
ruary the vote was 26O to 165.
When it concurred in Senate
changes March II to complete leg
lslative action on the bill the tally
was BIT to II. And yesterday the
f1nal roll call showed 336 to SIS.
The House vote yesterday showed
231 Democrats, 104 Republicans and
l Farmer Laborite for the appro-
priation. Recorded against it were
6 Democrats, As Republicans, 3 Pro-
gressives and l American Laborite,
Before the roll call was reached a
group of die-hard Republicans, led
by Representative Lambertson, Re-
publican, of Kansas, sought repeat
edly to force changes in both the
amount and language of the bill
but always fell hopelessly short OF
success.
Leaders in charge of the measure
sometimes ignored the opposition
arguments completely, calling in
stead for immediate votes on ths
amendment proposals.
AS it went to the Senate, the bills
provisions included 81 ,343, 900 900 for
artillery, machine guns and other
ordnance; s2,054,000,00O for war;
planes and their accessories; s362,-
100000 for tanks, armored cars and
other vehicles; $629, 900 900 for ships
and water craft of all kinds; S752,-
(See BRITISH AID, Page A-l2D