Evening star., 1942-10-01
House 10 Delay
Initiation Action
Until Tomorrow
Royburn Says Time
Will Be Given for
Study Of Senate Bill
By the Associated Press.

Study Of Senate Bill
By the Associated Press.
Speaker Rayburn said today
House action on the Senate YER
sion of limitation legislation
would be delayed until tomorrow
to give members time to consider
its provisions, then the legisla-
ton probably would be sent to
joint House Senate committee to
compose differences.
The Senate bill embraces less rigid
stlpulations than the House bill on
the inclusion of farm labor costs in
the establishment of agricultural
price ceilings.
Today was the deadline set
by Mr.. Roosevelt in his September
7 u-do-it-o -or-I-will message on
cost Of living controls.
Backed by an 82-to-0 vote in
the Senate, administration leaders
sought 20 obtain an agreement by
House members to the major fea-
lures Of compromise Senate ver-
sion directing the President to sta
bilize prices, wages and salaries at
September IS levels, so far as prac-
tical.
Senator Brown Satisfied.
That would entail a reversal OF
the House vote to alter the basis
OF computing farm parity standards
and acceptance of an administra-
tion-sporsored amendment inserted
by the Senate directing the Presi-
dent 20 raise price ceilings where
they did not reflect to growers the
increase in labor and other costs
since January l, 1941.
Senate approval of this latter pro-
vision by an 86-to-4 vote yester-
day ended an eight-day controversy
between the administration and
farm bloc members over the condi-
tions under which price ceilings
would be placed on farm products.
Senator Brown, Democrat, Of
Michigan, floor manager for the
measure, told reporters he and 9TH
ers of like views were satisfied with
the compromise because they be-
lleved 1t reposed in the President
discretionary authority which would
have been denied to him if the farm
bloc had prevailed.
Il am satisfied we have a bill that
is substantially the kind of bill
we were trying to get when we
started" Senator Brown said.
Thomas Claims Victory.
On the other hand, Senator
Thomas, Democrats, of Oklahoma
claimed the compromise was a VIC
tory for the farm bloc. There is lit
tie difference, he said, in the effect
of the amendment finally adopted
and proposal which he offered and
the Senate once accepted, only to
throw out later, for an upward reA
vision in parity standards to include
the cost Of farm labor :
Everything depends on how this
compromise provision is adminis>
tered Senator Thomas declared.
TT is essential that the spirit Of
the law be followed if the farmers
are to have sufficient money to meet
the cost of producing the necessary
food"
His words were echoed by the
leaders of four national farm or
ganizations who had been fighting
for the inclusion of labor costs in
the legislation.
Interpreting the final draft of the
price control act as mandatory to
make the necessary adjustments to
reflect the cost of all farm labor"
they said:
How we'll the compromise oper-
ates depends on the spirit in which
it is administered"
Farm Leaders Cite Danger.
Their statement, signed by Albert
S. Goss, master of the National
Grange, Edward A. O'Neal, presi-
dent of the American Farm Bureau
Federation; C. C. league, president
and H. E. Babcock, first vice presi-
dent of the National Council OF
Farmer Co-operatives, and Charles
w. Holman, secretary of the Ma
tional Cooperative Milk Producers
Federation, declared that any ex-
ecutive attempt to ignore the farm
labor problem would bring grave
danger OF a critical food shortage
next year"
Despite assertions by Senators
George, Democrat, of Georgia, and
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, that
the bill would not stop imitation, the
Senate swept it to final passage in
an elght-hour session yesterday.
The administration command OF
the situation faltered only once,
when leaders were forced to abandon
an amendment by Senator Butler,
Republican, of Nebraska to cut corn
and wheat off the list of major crops
on which Government loans of 80
per cent of parity would be author
ized.
The present loan is IS per cent.
and the House previously had voted
to raise it to 80. The Senate Com
mittee, which reported the bill. fol-
lowed this lead. but Senator Butler
made last-minute attempt on the
| floor to place discretion in the hands
of the President on the amount to
be lent, between IS and 80 per cent.
on corn and wheat.
That move was taken with the
support of Senator Brown, who said
cents a bushel increase in the
price of corn caused by an i'm
creased loan would add $3.50 900 .OOo
| yearly to the. cost of living and
would hinder the livestock feeding
program.
Senator Brown promised to at
tempt to work out some solution OF
this problem in joint conference
committee where House members
will consider the Senate version Of
the bill.
Other Differences In Bills.
Besides the farm price provisions
several other major differences in
the House and Senate bills remained
| to be ironed out. -,
The Senate measure directed thu
President to act by November I tn
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