The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
CONGRESS PASSES
EXTENSION OF 0PA
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{ u s. Employment Service fund
: in the latter measure from $685.
!. 900, 900 to $54, 100000.
Z Shortly afterward the Senate
/. amended and passed the second
deficiency appropriation bill, but
. with amendments that sent it to
!. Cor erence with the House.
Also hanging lire at that time
Vas the war gemcies. appropriation
bill, involved IN a fight by some
southern senator's against any
money at all for the Fair Employ
ment Practices committee. The
Senate finally voted that agency
81 900, about half the amount
asl--d for it, but the allotments' S
fate in the House was highly I'M
cer.ain.
Nobody figured that the affect
ed agencies actually would be
embarrassed for lack of funds,
since they do not spend much on
Sunday and the Presidents nor
NAL communications with Wash
ington are good enough to assure
signature before they need to
write many checks Monday.
Final congressional action Gull
minated a month-long bitter up
Qising against food shortages, IN
W SHOUTS of I'VE want meat"
were heard frequently on the house
floor
The House turned back a Late
hour attempt by republican bloc
to reject the compromise price con-
troll extension legislation. The re-
pubicans sought to restore delet-
ed provisions that would hive MADE
Clinton P. Anderson, new secre-
tary of agriculture, virtual car
on the food front.
The democratic leader, Rep. Nc
Cormack of Massachusetts, told the
house if the compromise was not
approved today initiation would be
'1et loose" upon the country, be-
ginning at midnight.
AS finally approved the bill con-
fers upon Anderson authority that
he said would enable him to break
the back of the black market in
meat.
Anderson, in his last act as a
democratic member Of congress
from New Mexico-before being
sworn this afternoon as agriculture
secretary-voted for the compro-
mise bill, which lays the food pro-
blern squarely in his lap.
In a staerment to newspaper
men later, he said:
Il voted for the bill as an ex-
presseion of my faith that congress
has done what it felt was necessary
at this time 20 give me sufficient
working equipment. If it proves in
ADEQUATE / know the members Of
congress will want me to come
back and say so, and I won't hes
itate to do So
In an effort to solve food short
a ages, congress wrote three impor-
tat amendments into the basic
price control law, as follows:
l. That The agriculture secre-
tary (Anderson) shall have veto
powers over OPA orders affecting
food.
2. The agriculture secretary shall
have authority to permit unlimited
slaughter Of meat. by certifying
that local slaughterers are opera
ting under sanitary conditions.
Meat produced by such slaughter
ers would be permitted to move
in interstate commerce and could
be purchased by the army. relax
ing present rigid requirements on
federal inspection.
3. OPA prices must allow pro-
cessors of beef, lamb and pork a
reasonable profit on each OF the
thu kinds of meat processed.
The compromise legislation,
drawn by a senate-house commit
tee, threw out the senate-adopted
amendment by Sen. Wherry
(R-Neb) that would have set up
a cost-plus price system for agri-
culture products. and also house.
approved amendment by Rep.
Dirksen GRILL permitting those ag-
grieved by OPA orders to seek re-
dress in federal district courts as
well as before the emergency court
of appeals as now provided.