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will be delayed until the last o
before adjournment.
Decision Approved
The committee approved a house
decision to lop $18, O0O. 900 off the
administrations request for $780,
900, 900 for relief in Italy, Greece,
Trieste, Hungary, Austria, Poland,
and China. This cut was aimed at
the Russian Satellites of Poland
and Hungary. The State depart
ment already has announced that
Poland has been cut off its list
on the ground that her food stu
alton is now classified as good.
The Senate group also eliminated
SIT, 600, 900 which State Department
officials had requested for oil re-
finery equipment shipments to
Russia as part of tt cleanup Of
the wartime lend-lease program.
No change was made in the
$500, 900, 000-the full amount re-
quested by President Truman -
which the house had voted for the
Greek-Turkish aid program.
=. Committee Overrules
But the committee overruled
House economy in proposed relief
spending in occupied areas of Eu-
rope and Asia. The House approx
ed only $3.50, 900, 900 for this pur-
pose, but the Senate group recon-
mended boosting it to $625, 900, 900
in cash and 500, 600, 600 in contract
authority. In effect, this would al
low the entire $725, 900, 900 asked
by the Chief Executive.
Except for Mr.. Humans plan
to unity the armed forces into a
single department of national de-
tense, and a handful of bills still
occupying top spots on the Re-
publican leadership's priority list,
many legislative proposals which
have been pending for several
months or more appeared doomed
to delay until 1913.
Wage Bill
A house labor subcommittee vot-
ed to put off consideration of wage
hour legislation until next fall. It
planned at that time to study gen.
eral revision of the wage-hour act,
including proposals to increase the
present minimum wage of 40 cents
an hour.
At the same time, a Senate La
Dor subcommittee postponed until
1949 any further action on a ma
tional health program. 1t had been
holding hearings for several months
on a compulsory health insurance
plan sponsored by Sen. Robert A.
Taft, R., Ohio.
Congressional leaders weren't so
eager, however, to delay various
ideas for Investigations of such
things as the Marshall plan for
economic aid to Europe, the high
cost Of living, the housing shortage,
and other activities that might in
volve o~n-the-spot studies.
Taft's Senate COP policy COM
mittee got behind two resolutions,
one calling for creation of a special
Senate-House committee to look
into the housing situation, and the
other designed to put the joint Con-
gressional economic committee on
the trail of high prices. But the
Ohioan said they would not be per-
mitted to interfere with adjourn
ment plans.
The Senate commerce commit
tee, meanwhile, approved a resolu-
ton which requires a final Sen
ate OK - under which its members
could visit Europe to check up on
where the Marshall plan might be
needed most. The house foreign
affairs committee plans a similar
Tourney, which brought from Rep.
John E. Rankin, D., Miss, the com
ment in a house speech today that
This business Of Congressional
committees running around all the
globe to peer behind the iron cur
tain is just about going thread
bare"