Evening star., 1943-03-08
Lease-Lend Extension
And Limit on Salaries
Face House This Week
Aid to China Seen as
Likely to Be Increased;
Pay Bon Defect Expected
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Debate over extension Of lease
lend authority and notification
OF President Roosevelt's salary
limitation order is expected to
occupy the House this week to
the exclusion of legislation deal
Ing with the draft, labor and
farm prices.
congressional leaders set aside to-
day, tomorrow and Wednesday for
discussion of a bill extending the
lease-lend program for IL more
months beginning July /.
While virtually no opposition is
expected, Chairman Bloom of the
Foreign Affairs Committee asked
prolonged discussion to explain and
answer many questions that have
arisen In the public mind with re-
spect to the various aspects OF the
program"
Advance indications are that much
OF the debate will center on the
extent to which China has benefited
from lease-lend. China won many
congressional sympathizers as re-
suit Of the recent address to the
House by Nine. Chang Kai-shek,
wife OF the Chinese generalissimo.
Pay Limit Fight Expected.
Debate that may develop into one
OF the most bitter fights of the Sew
crfveiobtJ, roprroes ~ ortr rr-h.~.
day on a proposal to void regula-
tions limiting individual salaries to
$4,000 annually (after taxes) and
pegging higher salaries to their pre-
Pearl Harbor levels.
Tackled on to a bill to raise the
national debt limit from $125.OOO,-
100000 to s2l0,00O, 10000 the SAL
ary limitation amendment grew
out OF charges by members that
President Roosevelt violated con-
gressional intent with his executive
order Of last October which put
ceiling of $25,O0O net on all salaries.
The amendment is expected to
have general Republican support
and enough hackers among the slim
Democratic majority to assure its
passage.
On the off-chance the salary
limitation fight would last only a
day, administration leaders tenta-
lively slated for consideration Fri
day legislation to amend the 1912
Price Control Act to require that in
fixing farm price ceilings considera-
ton be given to the increased costs
Of farm labor
1t is expected, however, that this
proposal will be carried over to next
week, along with another bill to
revise the formula for farm parity,
price calculated to give farmers a
fair return for their work.
Postwar Provisions Opposed.
The lease-lend legislation will
reach the House floor with all fac
tions agreed on the necessity for its
continuance, but with prospects of
controversy over attempts to write
some postwar foreign policies into
the law.
1t emerged from the House For
eign Affairs Committee with a
unanimous vote of approval and
without an amendment. Indications
are that it will fare as we'll in the
Senate committee.
But regardless of the committee
action, Capitol Hill expects efforts to
change the legislation during it's
consideration in an attempt to use
Americas r-eXtended aid as
bartering point for postwar consid-
erations.
Among the amendments likely to
be offered are these:
l. A requirement that any final
settlement of lease-lend aid between
this Nation and its Allies be sub
mitted to Congress for approval.
2. A clause to prevent use of any
lease-lend material to subject any
people to the control or dominance
Of another nation. Sponsors Of the
proposal said they had in mind
British relations with India.
3. A stipulation that a definite
amount Of the lease LEND material
possibly 10 per cent-must be ear
marked for China.
d A change in the title of the bill
to War Supply Act" to emphasize
that this Nation is not expecting a
dollars and cents return for the
materials sent to the Allies.
Stress Reverse Benefits.
Sponsors of the bill plan to en-
phasizo in their arguments the op-
eratlons of lease-lend in reverse and
poirit out how this Nation now is
receiving supplies for its troops In
foreign lands, along with repairs,
without cost, to battle damaged ships
in ports of the other Allied nations.
The major argument appeared
likely to develop over the proposal
of several members of Congress that
the bill include some guarantee that
this country will be permitted to use
commercially after the war the air
fields j has built on foreign soil for
war use.
Along that line; the next three
days may see an attempt to write
into the measure conditions that
the bases leased to this country by
England. as we'll as those developed
in the Pacific, be turned over to the
United States permanently.
Lease -leno Administrator Edward
r, Stettinius, jr., made public on
the eve of the House debate re-
port showing that besides actual
weapons the United States has
shipped vast quantities of raw ma
terials and industrial and COM
munications equipment to Russia.
To measure Americas S contribu-
ton to the Russian front, he said
account must be taken not only of
planes and tanks but also of such
items as:
100000 pairs Of heavy boots
1900 tons of sole leather, 72,5oo
trucks, 1880 jeeps and armored
cars, 7,700 motor cycles, 1900 mill
tary tractors, 100000 field tele-
phones, hundreds of thousands OF
miles" of field telephone wire, 268 :
900 tons of petroleum products, $780,
mn fntoe nf steaI az 000 tooe of , Ia,