The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-13
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ence twelve months. Such agencies,
created by executive order OF Pres
idet Roosevelt under emergency
war powers granted him, now re-
ceive ALLEGATIONS at the direction
of the chief executive.
A third Senate provision frown-
ed upon by certain members OF the
House would require Senate con-
firmation of all appointments to
Federal posts carrying salaries OF
81, 500 or more per year.
Also pending for House CONSIDER
alton are:
The so-called "GI Bill of Rights, "
making provision for veterans OF
World War II, now stalled in the
House Veterans Affairs Committee
due to opposition by its chairman,
Representative John E. Rankin,
Democrat, Mississippi, to a pro
posal granting veterans one-year,s
compensation during the demooln-
cation period;
The War Department civil func-
lions appropriation bill, carrying
funds for essential operation OF rlv-
ers and harbors and other civil
functions of the army engineers,
already enacted, but subject to con-
ference because of differences be-
tween the House and Senate YER
sions;
Extensions of the Office of Price
Administration, hearings on which
began this morning;
The mammoth navy appropria-
ton bill, expected to move through
both Houses with little or no de-
bate;
A proposal for sinplification of
tax returns, now pending before
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, headed by Representative
Robert L. Doughton, Democrat,
North Carolina;
Extension of the lend-lease pro-
gram;
The flood control omnibus bill,
carrying nationwide postwar flood
control project authorizations;
The three billion dollar post
war roads measure, embracing for
mulas for ALLEGATIONS to the states
of road funds for the first three
years following tn 'awar, and
A manpower draft provision,
pending before the House Military
Affairs Committee and slated for
action only in event current volun-
tary methods fail to herd 4-f's into
essential war work.
The annual attempt by Senate
administration cleft wingers'' to
enact a law whereby payment of
poll taxes would not be required
as prerequisite to voting in fed
eral elections may bring adoption
of cloture rule next week to linn
it debate and forestall another fill
buster. 1t has been through the use
OF the filibuster that the strong
southern bloc has in the past pre-
vented the measure from being
brought to a vote.
In event of the cloture adoption.
southern senators are already pre-
pared with new strategy, wherein
hundreds of amendments would be
offered and debated, one at time.
to defeat the cloture detectives and
continue the fillibustering methods
which have been so successful in
defeating attempts in the past.
Senator Theodore G.. CThe Mani
Bilbo, Democrat, Mississippi,
whose recent white supremacy
speech before the Mississippi Leg
islature brought demands in Wash
ington for his removal as chair
man of the Senate District Com
mittee, said he was prepared to
speak for 30 days. in the move
to filibustez' the anti-pon tax bill
to death.
While neither of North Cardinals
oNAAe'eoA D, oOoldll w. odll0y ana
Robert R. Reynolds, were expect
ed to participate actively in the
anti-poll tax debate, both believe
t h t the Federal government
should follow the letter of the Con-
stitution, which delegates to the
various states the authority to set
| qualifica tons for voting. Conse.
quently, they would doubtless vote
against the anti-poll tax measure
in event the left wingers" should
succeed in bringing the issue to
roll call.
With a more liberal attitude to-
ward subsidies indicated, the out
look was brighter for price control
and Sterilization legislation that |
would not include amendments re-
stricting food subsidies.