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last friendship with Franklin D.
Roosevelt as member of the House
Appropriations Subcommittee dur
ing the World War, when Mr..
Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary
of the Navy. The two have been
intimates ever since and when Mr..
Roosevelt became President the then
Senator Byrnes was one Of his chief
mainstays on the Hill.
Mr.. Byrnes had come to the Sen
ate two years before, after a defeat
in 1924 which interrupted his legis-
lative career. In the interval he
had built up large law practice in
Charleston.
He became Mr.. Roosevelt's "con-
tact man" in the Senate and for
10 busy years was constant caller
at the White House, consulted on
each emergency as it arose. He
was one of the few Southern Demo-
Gratis who remained loyal to the
President during the fight to re-
organize the Supreme Court in 1887.
He was named to the court in
June, 1941. Few men in Washington
have a wider circle of intimate
friends throughout the United
States. A man of small stature
and quick, nervous mannerisms,
Justice Byrnes is capable speaker
and has an intimate knowledge of
national economics and legislative
procedures.
Congress Prodded by President.
Prodded into action by the Presi-
dent on his return from a two-week
inspection of war establishments,
Congress completed passage of the
anti-infiation bill last night, only
one day later than he had de-
nanded.
In a Labor Day speech Mr. Roose-
welt said that if Congress failed to
act by October l he would take
matters into his own hands.
A cause of many ruffled tempers
and frayed nerves in its three-week
stay in Congress, the measure gener-
ally directs the President to stabilize
wages, prices and salaries by Novem-
Der l, and, as far as is practicable,
at the levels of September Is.
The act calls for adjustment of
farm prices if those established un-
der the stabilization provisions do
not meet the increase in the cost of
farm labor AND other agricultural
expenses since January l, 194l.
One Section Revised.
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mittee yesterday revised one section
OF the measure requiring that be-
fore the President could sanction
increases in wages and salaries
above the September Is level, he
must find not only that there were
gross inequities" but that the ef-
fective prosecution of the war de-
mand the raise.
In contrast to the stormy recep-
ton which greeted the measure in
Its earliest stages, the bill emerged
from the Conference Committee anc
promptly passed the House, 257
to %.
Speeded to the Senate, it also met
brief debate and was passed by a
voice vote at 7:12 pm. Delivered
at the White House at $50 pm, the
President discussed the measure
with congressional leaders, intimate
advisers and departmental officials
He affixed his signature at 10:15
pm
Looking on as the President signed
the bill were:
Attorney General Biddle, Secretary
of Commerce Jones, Herbert CASTOR
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Harold Smith, director of the bud
get; Leon Henderson, price admin.
istrator; Isador Lubin of the Bureau
OF Labor Statistics; William H
Davis, chairman of the War Labor
Board; Samuel B. Bledsoe, assistant
to the Secretary of Agriculture,
Judge Samuel Rosenman, Supreme
Court Justice Byrnes, Harry Hopkins
Majority Leader Barkley, Senator
Brown, Democrat, of Michigan
House Majority Leader Mccormack