Evening star., 1946-04-14
House Votes 5-Month HOLIDAY
On |nductions and Raises Aqe
To TO- But Delays Final Action
Politics Charged;
Amendments Pass
Without Roll Call
BY the Associoted Pres.

The House wrote a five months
induction holiday and an end to
the drafting of teen-agers into
a Selective Service extension bill
late yesterday, but delayed final
action on the measure as a whole
until tomorrow.
A decisive vote that would have
sent the legislation to the Senate
was blocked when Representative
Cox, Democrat, of Georgia, de-
manded a reading of the formally
engrosSed bill with all amendments
Speaker Rayburn told the House
such copy would not be ready be-
fore tomorrow.
So the House quit and put off the
vote until then.
There is nothing remaining to do
now except pass on a motion to
recommlt, which is conceded prac-
ticaIy no chance and take final
action. There will be no roll call on
the amendments.
Holiday" Wins by 3 Votes.
The Senate still has a say COM
ing, however, in a committee-ap-
proved bill lacking the restrictions
the House voted yesterday.
The House had been all set to pass
the bill. 1t had decided by a three
vote margin to prohibit any induc-
tions between May Is and October
Is OF this year, although extending
the draft law itself until February
Is, 1947, or nine months from its
present expiration date, May Is.
There was no record vote on the
Holiday proposal, which went into
the measure by teller count of l56
to 1853 after charges that it was in
spired by politics" The members
turned down request for roll-call
vote on which the members would
be recorded individually. An earlier
tentative vote on the holiday was
149 to 127.
There was no record vote, either,
on the amendment raising the pres
ent minimum draft age from IS to
20. It went into the measure by a
non-recorded vote of 1876 to 96, the
same as the earlier tentative ballot.
Mrs. Mankin Assails Bill.
As it neared formal passage. the
bill was so sharply changed from
the form in which it was written by
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee that Georgia's new woman Rep
resentative, Mrs. Helen Mankin, told
the House "the CUTS have been cut
out of this bill"
The House left unchanged it's COM
mittee's recommendations for al
maximum servi3e liability of 49,
months for all drafted men; for an
outright ban against the induction
of fathers; for authority. for local
draft boards to defer farm workers,
and for these ceilings on the July
l, 1947, strength of the armed forces:
Army 100000 officers and men; |
Navy $4,000; Marine Corps 10000. |
Turned down were proposals to
raise the pay of all service personnel;
to give enlisted men the same termi-
nal leave pay now granted to officers:
to force the immediate discharge of |
all fathers now in service, and to
count service in the merchant marine
as part Of the 18 months maximum |
required of inducted men.
The administration fought against
the teen-age ban and the draft
holiday" amendments, Majority
Leader Mccormack accusing the
House of resorting to Legislative
mockery" and several members ac-
cusing their colleagues of being
prompted by politics in voting for
the holiday"
Wanted to Put OFF Roll Call.
Mr.. Cox told reporters he insisted
on a reading of the engrossed bill
in order OF put off the roll call until
tomorrow. His motive, he said, was
to protect several members who had
not expected the final vote to come
yesterday and were not present.
Chairman Vinson of the Naval
Affairs Committee offered the "holi-
day" amendment, while the ban on
teen-age inductions was proposed
by Chairman May of the Military
Committee. Mr.. May said "it is
wrong to draft children"
MIR. Vinson, Mr.. May and others
who supported the amendments
based their argument on the con-
tention an all-out recruiting drive
would produce the necessary man
power for the armed services. Ac-
ton on pay increases to spur en-
hstment is expected in separate
legislation.
Opponents of both amendments |
lSee DRAFT PAGE A-l6l