Evening star., 1943-07-07
House Stands PAT
|0n Resistance 10
|McKeIIar Plan
| Rejects Senate Scheme
For Confirmation of
Hundreds Of JobhoIders
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

The MckellAr amendment TO
require Senate confirmation OF
employees In the Is war agencies
who get 81 500 or more q year was
dealt what may be death blow
today when the House refused,
ITO to 176, to withdraw its oppo-
sition.
A short while later the Senate
voted to send the war agencies bill
back to conference for another effort
to work out an agreement on the
McKellar amendment.
The Senate also sent the second
deficiency bill back to conference on
several remaining disputes, including
the 5000, 900 relief fund for flood
damaged farms In the Midwest.
Representative Taber. Republican,
of New York was prepared to offer
compromise under which con-
firmation would have been required
only In the case of persons employed
since June so and whose pay is
$500 or more.
But when the House defeated the
preliminary motion to recede from
its disagreement with the Senate,
1t prevented Mr.. Taber from Offer
ing the compromise.
Sends II Back 70 Senate.
The House then adopted by 4
voice vote the motion OF Chairman
Cannon of the Appropriations Com
mittee to insist on its opposition to
the McKellar amendment.
This sends the question back to
the Senate for another vote on
whether to continue the deadlock,
or abandon the McKellar proposal
for the time being. This Is the last
major dispute holding up the s2.-
932, 900 900 supply bill for Is war
agencies. including OPA. WPB and
owl.
Representative Eberharter, Demo-
crat. of Pennsylvania. made the mo-
ton that the House ''recede and
concur" in the McKellar amend
ment, which would have meant ac-
cepta nee of the Senate provision to
require immediate confirmation OF
the hundreds Of employees already or
the payroll of these agencies at
800 or more.
Test Vote Close.
Mr.. Taber, however. wanted tc
offer the compromise, applying only
to future appointments, and the
only way he could do that was te
ask that a separate vote be taken
first ito recede." II this had carried
he would have moved to concur" In
the compromise language.
Today's test vote was Unexpectedly
close, only last Saturday the House
voted, 302 to 90. against the Nickel
lar plan. The vote today followed
party lines, generally. with Re.
publicans supporting the unsuccess-
full effort to get compromise.
The House earlier refused to bulge
in it's stand for abolition of the Gov.
eminent crop insurance program
/ and put squarely up to the Senate
1 the proposition OF backing dowr
from its insistence on the program
or tieing up a deficiency appropria-
| ton bill
| Senate Amendment Rejected.
BY standing vote of 123 to 50
! the House rejected a Senate amend.
ment TO the 1866 ,0Oo, 900 catch AL
! second deficiency bill to allow ST.
s1S,74s for continued operation OF
crop insurance.
On several previous occasions. the
House had Overwhelmingly voted tt
abolish the program on the ground
/ 1t cost more than 1t was worth
The Senate bowed to the HOUSE
position when 1t passed the regular
Agriculture Department bill with g
House proviso allowing only $780,.
600 to liquidate the insurance pro.
gram.
| However. Senate hackers Of the
plan reopened the fight by writing
into the deficiency bill s4,3lS.748 tt
supplement the $350o,0O0 fund ap.
proved by the House. and removing
| the House provision for liquidation
Army Navy Get First Call.
The House action sent the bill acb
to the Senate.
| The House also voted to give the
Army and Navy first call on the
machinery and tools of the Nationa
/ Youth Administration. which Con.
gress has decreed must be liquidatec
by January l.
Any of the property not needed
by these or other Federal agnecie.
could be lent to States and countie.
to continue local training programs
until the war is over
That compromise plan of liquida
ton was accepted. lat to 81. in place
of Senate proposal that woulo
have turned the NYA property ovel
to the States in which it is located
Chairman Cannon of the HOUSE
Appropriations Committee said NYA
has $4,000, 900 worth OF property ir
l.700 locations throughout the coun.
try. The compromise amendment
also earmarks 81 500 900 of an un.
expended balance of past appro.
'nriations to pay the accrued leav,
of NYA employees who will b,
dropped in the liquidation.
The third appropriation bill await
ing action Is the 81 ,238 ,622 900 La boz
Department-Federal Security Agenc.
bill.
Both houses managed to complet,
the Interior Department bill ane
send 1t to the President yesterday.
The House also accepted a nev
amendment today. giving Price Ad
ministrator Brown until August l,
to determine whether all person
engaged in issuing price regulation
have had sufficient business expert
ence for the task. Originally tn,
war agencies bill required five year
of such experience, but this wa
changed to vest discretion in tn,
administrator.
Shrine Renames ffe,Iarf