Evening star., 1945-06-25
Price Control
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said his past experience with the
injunction process on labor legisla-
ton caused him to view with con-
Germ the House amendment, giving
complainants against price regula-
tions access to any Federal district
court.
Objections to price control rules
now are passed on by special
emergency court of appeals, which
seeks to keep rulings uniform
throughout the Nation.
The amendment which created
most of the excitement Saturday,
was the one of Representative An
dresen, Republican, of Minnesota,
designed to centralize responsibility
for all food decisions by any gov
ernment agency in the hands of
Representative Clinton p Ander-
son, Democrat, of New Mexico. who
becomes Secretary of Agriculture
and War Food Administrator next
week.
Compromise Sighted.
Both Senator Wagner and Mr..
Anderson. who is still member of
the House. refrained from dis
cussing this one-man control
today. but there ap-
peared to be more room for working
out satisfactory compromise on
that proposal than on. the court
Senator Wagner indicated he did
aot expect much difficulty in con-.
ference over the third House
amendment, intended to eas& the,
meat situation by opening up more
Of the small slaughter houses
throughout the country, under non
Federal inspection, provided the
Secretary Of Agriculture finds they
are in sanitary condition.
This amendments was offered by
Administration forces in the House,
and was supported by both parties.
It prohibits any quota restrictions
on the amount of slaughtering that
may be done. if the secretary certi-
fles that plant is being operated
under sanitary conditions. The only
qualification is that the secretary
may require a slaughterhouse to
allot a percentage of its output to
the armed services. Mr.. Anderson
took the floor in support of this
Saturday. He predicted
last night that the Nation will get
more meat, If the Senate goes along
with the change.
The fourth and fifth House
offer no serious threat
n conference. One-the Barkley
lmendment-has been approved by
he Senate, in substance. It's pur-
,ose is to give meat professors
,rice ceilings that will allow sepa-
ate profit margins on their cattle,
heep and hog operations.
House Conferees Named.
The other would require the OPA
20 set for rent control an advisory
council similar to the groups that
cooperate in other fields of price
The conferees may meet this aft
ernoon. The House already has
the following as it's nego-
tiators:
Representatives Spence of Ken
lucky, Brown of Georgia, Patman
of Texas and Monroney of Okla
homa. all Democrats, and Wolcott
of Michigan, Crawford of Michi-
gan and Gamble of New York, Re-
publicans.
If the conferees fail to iron out
their differences by Saturday, when
the Price Control Act expires, both
houses may put through stop-gap
resolution continuing the existing
law, pending agreement.
The controversial court review
went into the House
bill 200 to 1854, on motion of Repre-
sentative Dirksen, Republican, of
Illinois. Opponents argue that it
might lead to conflicting interpre-
tations of price control regulations
in different parts of the country,
and cause an excess of food spplies
to be shipped into sections where
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