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would be inhationary, but the bills
supporters denied that.
Senator Bankhead claimed suffi-
cient votes to retire his bill to COM
mittee. and Senator Barkley did not
dispute his claim. But the latter
said he believed the Senate ought
to settle the issue once and for all
not leave it plaguing the President
in his attempts to move on all
fronts"
Mr.. Roosevelt remarked at his
press conference that the move to
send the bill to committee was one
way Of not having to commit your
self.
Those who are using the cost of
living as a lever for their demands
will be aided If we do not act" Sena-
tor Barkley declared. ITO settle this
thing now would do more to
strengthen the morale of this coun-
try than anything else that might
happen. 1t might settle lot Of prob
lens that are around the corner"
George Sees Lewis Threat.
This position was supported by
Senator George, Democrat. OF Geor-
gia, who said he thought that If the
Senate delayed showdown John
L. Lewis and his crowd might be able
to say no one knew what Congress
was going to do, and thus get their
wage demands satisfied"
Chairman Smith, a hacker of the
measure, was not one who cheered
the move TO send the bill to his Agri-
culture Committee. If the farm bloc
couldn't pass it over the veto now, he
said he saw no early hope of doing
so, adding:
I'VE might as well let things go
along until we have another elec-
tion,' @x
Apparently the House-approved
Pace bill. requiring the calculation
of all farm labor costs in establish
ing parity formulas, was wrapped
up in the same package. Because it
would alter the basis for equalizing
the exchange of farm commodities
for manufactured products it also
has been attacked by the admin
istration as inflationary.
Most Agriculture Committee men,
bers conceded that the strength
mustered by the administration in
its drive to sustain the Bankhead
bill veto spelled defeat for any at
tempt to pass the Pace bill over an
almost certain presidential veto.
Administrati ton Heutenants count
ed 40 out of 83 Senators present
yesterday as supporters of the move
to sustain the veto, far more than
the necessary one-third Of those
recorded. They admitted, however,
they might lose some of these on
the motion to return to committee.
Senator Bailey, Democrat, of
North Carolina also demanded an
immediate show down on the bill.
Asking that the veto be sustained,
Senator Bailey yesterday told the
Senate, 1--WE are dealing with neces-
sity. Well either stand on our
stabilization program or falter down
the road to it's Wreckage"
Senator Bankhead, meanwhile, de-
CldIeu lIleIe ndu DeeIl campaign
Of misrepresentation of the measure
by anonymous compilers of tables
in the departments"
The Office of Price Administra-
ton Monday night issued an anal
ysis of the bill which said it would
raise retail food prices 81 per cent,
adding $500, 100000 year to con-
sumers' food costs and s5O0,O0O,O 900
year to costs of feeding the armed
forces and supplying foodstuffs to
other United Nations.
Senator Bankhead asserted, how
ever, that actually the bill would
affect price ceilings of only few
commodities, including corn and
wheat. The measure would forbid