Evening star., 1941-11-26
Republicans Press
Effort 10 Hold Up
Price-Contro| Bill
Democrats Cox and Dies
Join Move to Recommit
Measure to Committee
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

A strong move to send the entire
subject of price control back to the
Banking Committee. if the House
adopts the committees last-minute
licensing system. was predicted to-
day b. Minority Leader Martin
after Republican conference On
the bill.
recommittal came from two men on
the Democratic side-Representa-
tives Cox of Georgia and Dies of
Texas. Taking the floor as soon as
the House met at II o'clock, Mr. Cox
predicted the Gore substitute. pro-
posing an "over-all' ceiling on wages
and prices. would be beaten. along
with the controversial licensing pro-
vision OF the administration bill.
He said the House should then turn
the subject back to the committee
for further deliberation.
Representative Dies announced he
would vote to send the bill back to
the committee IF for no other rea-
son than that I refuse to put this
power into the hands Of enemies of
this country" He repeated his al
legations that top-ranking officials
Of the Price Administration had
records OF afhliation with Com
munlst organizations
He said Price Administrator Leon
Hendersons only response to the
charges was to tell the Banking
Committee that II am not a re-
sponsible member of Congress"
Banging his fist on the reading
desk, Mr.. Dies shouted:
Il am sick and tired of the ar
rogance of bureaucrats who infest
this Government"
Representative Voorhis. Democrat,
of California interrupted to explain
he did not think Mr.. Dies meant to
leave the impression that Price Ad-
ministrator Henderson lis an enemy
of the United States
No, and I did not say that" Mr..
Dies replied. I'VE have submitted
certain names to the President and
I have stated that if he would act
We would submit so other names in
the Price Administration. 1 have
submitted to the President the
names of 1925 members of subver-
Sive organizations employed by this
Government, and in addition, l am
sending to the White House the
names of $1,000 Nazis, many Of
whom hold positions in our defense
industries. l am sick and tired OF
this. AS far as I am concerned I am
going to use all the power at my
command to get the White House to
take whatever action is necessary"
The Republicans do not take
formal binding action in their con-
ferences, but Representative Martin
said there was decided opposition to
the licensing feature, and voiced his
own belief that amendment would
make the administrations proposal
a bad bill.
You can't vote for bad bill just
because it has good tag on it, said
the minority leader, but he en-
phasized he wanted to see effective
price control enacted.
The informal Republican discus
sion came as the House prepared to
take the first test vote this after
noon on the substitute for the ad-
ministration plan, sponsored by
Representative Gore. Democrat. OF
Tennessee. 1t calls for an overall"
ceiling on the price and wage struc-
ture, whereas the administration
plan omits wages.
Delay Until Spring Seen.
Mr.. Martin said he understood the
Senate would not take up the price
measure until next spring, indicat-
ing that he saw no serious conse-
quences from further House delay.
Mr.. Henderson. scheduled to ad-
minister the pending bill, conferred
with House leaders today and later
called the attention of newspaper
men to a report written by former
President Hoover in 1917, in which
he called licensing the backbone
of all control" Mr.. Henderson said
that between August, 1917. and De-
cember, 1918, the Food Administra-
ton revoked 8,676 licenses.
Republican members Of the House
Banking Committee, however have
denounced the pending licensing
plan, which the committee approved
two days ago. after rejecting it
earlier. As originally reported, the
bill required a court proceeding for
enforcement OF a price ceiling, under
the proposed amendment an in
dustry or business failing to observe