Evening star., 1945-09-26
Senate Slated 10 Act
.Favorab|y This Week
On District S|um Bill
By DON S. WARREN.

Predictions that the Senate will
act favorably on the compromise
District slum clearance bill, now on
it's calendar. before the end of this
week were heard today on Capitol
Hill.
Favorably reported yesterday from
the Senate District Committee, the
measure is partly a combination Of
the earlier, competing McCarrun
and Capper bills and partly the re-
suit of notifications suggested by
Senator Burton, Republican, of
Ohio, who next week is to assume
Office as an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
One reason for speeding action on
the measure is that the controversy
has been lowering over Congress for
two years without much prospect fol-
solution until the compromise was
charted and another is to afford the
Senate the advice of Senator Bur-
ton before he leaves that body to
assume his judicial duties.
Quick Approval Hailed.
The compromise measure, spon-
sored jointly by Senators McCarran
Democrat, of Nevada; Capper, Re-
publican, of Kansas, both former
chairmen of the Senate District
Committee, and Senator Burton, ar
active member of the District group
yesterday was reported unanimously
| from the committee
| The sponsors were gratified at the
small amount of opposition fileo
against the compromise plan, ano
attributed most of this to misunder-
standing of the meaning and pur-
pose of the revised measure. They
were pleased at the quick approval
given by the full District Committee
headed by Senator Bilbo, Democrat
of Mississippi.
In report filed for the District
Committee, for himself and Sena-
tors Burton and Capper, Senator
McCarran declared, late yesterday
This bill is the fruition and cul-
mination of more than two years OF
intensive effort to produce a bill
which will at once make adequate
provision for clearing the slums C1
the District and at the same time
reconcile, so far as possible, the con.
flicting views long held by public ano
private housing advocates, with re-
gard to how the job should be done.
Committee Report.
After reviewing point by point the
terms of the compromise measure
the committee report states:
Every line and every word of the
bill has been subjected to careful
meticulous and expert study. Tht
conflicting viewpoints were ably
represented by counsel during thu
extraordinarily -long and thorough
hearings which were held, and. since
then, in connection with the re.
vision of various portions of the bill
I'm many cases, the choice of 6
word, or the placement of a pune.
tuation mark, became a matter O.
controversy, and in many such in.
stances it was necessary to reach
minor compromises in order to ef.
fectuate the major compromise
which this bill as whole embodies
Your committee believes tha
prompt enactment of this bill i
necessary as an emergency meas
ure. The job of clearing Washing
ton of its slums has been too Ion,
delayed. 1t should be commenced
Immediately.
Enactment of this Legislation
will, in the opinion of your commit.
tee, be long step forward toware
an objective with which no one car
quarrel; namely, the elimination O
slum conditions which should no
be permitted to exist in the Capita
OF the United States"