Evening star., 1947-07-03
Delay on Some
Payro||s
Held Possible
Speed in Congress
Is Sought on Ten
Major Supply Bills
By Don S. Warren


Prospect of payless paydays
later this month for some Gov
ernment employees today put
more steam behind the drive on
Capitol Hill to enact 10 major
supply bills still begged down in
Congress.
Efforts to speed action on the
regular supply bills were stepped up
after Congress late yesterday cleared
a stop-gap measure providing emer-
gency funds for Federal and Dis
trict agencies.
This interim bill authorizes Gov
ernment shops to incur administra-
tive and other expenses, pending
passage of the regular bills, but pro-
vides cash appropriations for pay
rolls only in half dozen specified
instances.
Few Payrolls to Be Late.
July 20 is the deadline, since most
Government pay for the first two
weeks in the new fiscal year will be
due the next day or little later
Senator Gordon, Republican, of
oregon, in charge of the stop-gap
bill, told the Senate he believed only
"a very few" payrolls would fail to
get under the wire.
A similar view is held by Chair
man Taber of the House Appropri-
ations Committee. He has said he
believes all the regular bills, includ-
ing the Districts, should be cleared
in time to prevent pay delays. He
is said to have urged exclusion of
such funds from the stop-gap bill
as means of forcing speed in set
Ting the regular bill issues.
Putting promises into practice, the
Young subcommittee of the Senate
Appropriations Committee met last
night to complete hearings on the
legislative supply bill. Legislative
employees on the hill, it was revealed,
will have to wait for their July IS
pay unless this measure is speeded
to enactment.
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Brief debate in the Senate brought
out that the emergency funds
measure generally does not provide
the cash for payment of the next
Federal or District or legislative
payrolls, pending passage of the
regular 1948 bills.
The legislative appropriation bill
includes pay and expenses for men,
bers of Congress as well as congress
sional employees.
Only two major appropriation
bills so far have gone to the White
House - Treasury-Post Office and
Labor Federal Security.
Those still in the mill, aside from
the District bill, were those for
Interior, State Commerce Justice,
Navy, Agriculture, Military, Govern
nent Corporations, Independent
Offices, Legislative and War Civil
Functions.
The s1,674,158,630 appropriated
for the Labor Department and the
Federal Security Agency was $105,-
455,00O under President Truman's
budget estimates and $10,000, 900 less
than the House originally voted.
The House and Senate took final
action on the bill yesterday and
rushed it to the White House.
S339, 100000 Bill Approved.
The House yesterday also ap-
proved a 1898, 100000 War Depart
ment civil functions appropriations
bill after rejecting amendments to
put back some of the $4,000, 900
cut from original budget estimates
Most of the money is slated for
food control and navigation prof.
ects.
Meanwhile, Senator Ball, Repub-
lican, of Minnesota told newsmen
that House-Senate conferees on the
Commerce State Justice Depart
ments appropriation bill had agreed
to the following compromise set
Elements of differences between
funds voted by the chambers in
dividually:
Federal aid program for airports-
s32 2,5OO,O00. This is just half OF the
amount requested by Mr.. Truman
State Department Intelligence
Service-$2, 100000 The Senate had
voted s2,50O,OoO and the House $2,-
100000.
Fund for cooperation with Amer
ican republics-S3, 100000 instead OF
the S3,OO0,0O0 allowed by the House
and the $4,3OO,0oo approved by the
Senate.
| Civil Aeronautics Board-$3 900,
900 instead of the $2,500,000 voted
by the House and the $3,100,00C
voted by the Senate.