Evening star., 1943-07-03
Action by House
Frees sPayFunds;
Killed
Compromise Sends
Deficiency Bill to
White House
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

The deadlock over the $143.-
100000 urgent deficiency bill
that has tied up the salaries of
thousands Of Federal and Dis
trict employees, was broken this
afternoon when the House ac-
cepted the compromise confer
ence report approved by the
Senate yesterday.
BY voice vote the House ac-
cepted the compromise under which
the three men it wanted to drop
from the Government payroll imme-
diately may remain provided Presi-
dent Roosevelt submits their names
to the Senate and they are con-
flrmed before November IS. Unless
confirmed by that date they would
be dropped.
The three men are Robert Morss
Lovett, Government secretary for
the Virgin Islands, and Goodwin B
Watson and William E. Dodd. jr.
employees of the Federal Communica
tions Commission.
The deficiency bill, subject of a
bitter battle for the past month. will
go to the President to be signed as
soon as the Senate acts on techni-
cal amendment, legalizing any obli-
cations incurred since July /.
Makes PayrolIs Available.
This means the delayed payrolls
for which money is in this bill, soon
will be available. Affected groups
include District school teachers. DO
l1cemen and flremen. as we'll as thou
sands OF other Federal and District
workers.
Meanwhile. abolition OF the Ma
tional Youth Administration by
January was decreed by the SEN
ate today, 80 to 49,
BY this vote the Senate aban-
doned its effort to give NYA s48,-
000.0C0 to run for another year, and
agreed to House action requiring
liquidation of this New Deal agency
in six months. Both houses are now
in agreement that not more than
S3.000,0O0 may be spent to wind up
NYA.
The Senate then sent the Labor
Federal Security bill back to con-
ference on other remaining dis
putes
The first break in the deadlock
on the deficiency bill came yester-
day, when the Senate accepted. 4s
to 80, the compromise it had twice
before rejected, affecting the three
Government employees.
The House has been insisting on
dropping them from the payroll i'm
medlatelv, on the basis of charges
before the Kerr Committee of the
House that they were identified with
subversive movements. Until yes
terday the Senate had been hold
ing out against such action as an
improper way Of terminating an en-
ploye'S services.
A new stumbling block developed
late yesterday in the path of the
Labor Federal Security bill, when
the Senate refused. 81 to 10, to
exempt appointments under the
War Manpower Commission from
Senate confirmation. Jobs in this
agency paying $4,000 or more have
been subject to confirmation during
the past year. but the House is OBJ
jecting to continuing that rule for
the coming year.
The same issue on broader scale
still awaits House vote in the con-
ference report on the $2,932 OOO. 900
war agencies bill. in which the Sen
ate wants authority to confirm all
$4,000 jobs in the II war agencies.
One controversy was settled late
Yesterday, however, when the Sem
ate voted, 40 to Is. to keep in the
Labor Federal Security bill the
amendment designed to prevent
jurisdictional labor disputes. by pro-
hibiting the National Labor Rela-
tions Board from ordering new elec-
tions during the next II months in
plant if collective bargaining
agreement has been in existence for
three months without complaint
Agricultural Bill Blocked.
Meanwhile, the s875, 100000 Agri-
culture appropriation bill still is
blocked by the House insistence on
abolishing the crop insurance pro-
gram, and the Senate fighting to
continue it.
The sl27 100000 Interior Depart
ment bill also is caught in a House
battle against Senate amendments
for number of new irrigation and
reclamation projects in the West.
In addition to the five big bills
over which the two houses have
been battling for weeks, the Senate
still has awaiting passage a final
deficiency bill, that will be brought
out just before the summer recess
starts, probably next week.