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Senate Plan 10
Adjourn June 19
House Floor Leader
Expects Decisions on
Major Bills by Then
By J. A. O'Leory

House Republican Floor Lea der
Halleck of Indiana yesterday in
dorsed the goal of Senate leaders
to wind up this session of Con-
greSs on June 10.
Without attempting to list the meas
ures he thinks will get through in
the remaining three weeks, the
COP floor manager expressed con-
fidence the House will act by that
Gate "on all the things we can afford
to do at this time"
AS a big step in that direction
he said, the House will make an eff
fort to pass this week, starting Tues
day. most of the remaining approp-
ration bills.
BOttleneck Possible in Senate.
Republican leaders of both houses
will get together Tuesday to COM
pare notes and determine how many
Of the important pending issues can
be disposed of before the Republi-
can National Convention opens in
Philadelphia June 81
The legislative bottle-neck, if one
occurs, will be in the Senate, where
debate on all subjects is unlimited
unless tWo-hnirds are willing to in
woke the seldom-used cloture rule
The House is in position to regu.
late debate on all important bills
Chairman Millikin of the Senate
Finance Committee announced yes
terday four days of public hearings
beginning Tuesday morning, on the
House-approved one-year extension
of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Act, which expires June II.
Action on Draft Awaited.
This is only one of half a dozen
major issues awaiting Senate action
which may provoke extended debate
Others are:
Revival of the draft, which leaders
hope to call up this week. following
a vote on how many displaced per-
sons should be admitted to this
country.
The civil rights question, which
may be fought out on amendments
expected to be offered to the draft
bill.
The Vandenberg resolution, to put
the Senate on record in favor of
American participation in regional
defense pacts as one of several ways
to improve the outlook for peace
until the United Nations organiza =
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Repeal of the oleo margarine tax,
passed by the House and recently
reported from the Senate Finance
Committee.
Long Range Farm Bill.
A long-range farm bill to replace
the support program which expires
in December.
The proposed two-year extension
of the terms of the five present
members of the Atomic Energy
Commission, to avoid a fight over
confirming Chairman David E.
Lilienthal for five years.
Senate Republican leaders are
ready, according to reliable reports
yesterday, to bring out a one-year
extension of the Trade Agreement
Act, without the House provision to
give Congress a chance to nullify
Presidential tariff cuts.
The Senate COP managers may
write into the bill, however, au-
thority for the Federal Tariff Com
mission to fix standards for the
Presidents guidance in negotiating
future trade pacts, and they are
not yet in agreement on how bind
ing these standards should be.
McGrath Announces Resistance.
This question of how far the Tar
i'll Commission should be allowed to
90 in curbing the Presidents power
to reduce tariffs may become as con-
troyersial as the congressional-veto
issue it replaces.
Rhode Island Senator McGrath,
Chairman of the Democratic Ma
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