Evening star., 1943-07-02
Move 10 Free
u. ). Funds Bills
Expected Today
Conferees Will Seek
To Win Approval Of
Deficiency Measure
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

Congress may succeed today In
prying loose several of the Ave
money bills that have left many
Government agencies without
spending authority since yester-
day morning, and thousands of
Federal and District employees
without pay checks already over
due.
Here are major developments due
before nightfall in the worst appro-
priation jam Congress has ever been
in at the opening of a new fiscal
year:
House and Senate will make q
strong effort to settle the battle be-
tween the two houses over the $143,-
100000 deficiency bill, which has
tied up In it the Presidents $89,-
100000 OF war emergency funds. the
pay of District police, firemen, school
teachers and many other Govern
ment workers.
Conferees Will Offer Report.
Chairman Cannon OF the House
Appropriations Committee said a
new conference report on the bill
would be submitted to the House
today, and later to the Senate, but
there was no certainty 1t would be
adopted. 1t retains the compromise
under which the three men the
House Is trying to take from the
Government payroll - Robert M.
Lovett. secretary of the Virgin
Islands, and Goodwin Wilson and
William E. Dodd, jr., of the Federal
Communications Commission-could
continue until November Is, when
they would be dropped unless their
names are confirmed by the Senate
in the meantime. The Senate has
twice rejected that solution. but the
last time by narrow margin.
The new agreement also restricts
the Presidents emergency funds by
preventing their use for any func-
tien or project the Budget Bureau
has turned down.
The Senate probably will decide
whether the National Youth Admin
istration is to pass out of existence
on January /, as decreed by the
House late yesterday by roll call
vote Of 1877 to 176.
'rF'' - ~ " -
- VIII Settle McKeilar Proposal.
The House is expected to settle the
fate of the Mcclellan proposal to re-
quire Senate confirmation of hum
dreds Of Government employees max
ing S4,500 or more In the II emer-
gency war agencies. In a preliminary
test yesterday, the House over
whelmingly turned down the same
proposition, 1872 to %. as applied to
War Manpower Commission appoin-
tees, In the Labor Federal Security
bin.
The one remaining issue in the
$875 900 900 farm bill is whether to
continue the crop insurance pro-
gram, with the next move up to the
House. The Senate refused yester-
day to agree to its abolition.
Both branches will act during the
day on the compromise budgets
recommended by conferees last
night for the OPA and Owl.
Differences Compromised.
The OPA would get $l55 900. 900,
instead of $50 0,O0O, 900 in the House
bill and sl77,OO0,O00 in the Senate.
The owl would receive $33.155 1893
in lieu of s28-972.504 in the House
bill and S35, ,037, ,593 in the Senate
The curtailment was aimed at the
domestic branch. which already has
begun closing its 60 field offices.
and will have to cut down other
home front activities.
The OPA and Owl items are part
of the $2,932, 100000 bill for the II
war agencies. The conferees ad-
justed all differences in this bill ex-
cept the McKellar job confirmation
amendment, which will be put up to
the House separately.
The $l27 100000 Interior supply
bill is still blocked by House resist
ance to a $22 ,000, 900 grant for West
ern irrigation projects added by the
Senate to make new areas available
for food production.
The log jam in appropriations Is
part of the resurgence of congress
sional independence, being expressed
against administrative agencies. It
is also partly due to the close di-
vision between Republicans and
Democrats in this Congress, which
gives anti-New Deal Democrats a
balance of power.
Administration supporters made a
(See APPROPRIATIONS, Pg. A-16)