Evening star., 1949-10-06
Social Security Plan,
Voted by House, Faces
Senate Delay Until so
BY the Associotsd Press

Senate Delay Until 81
BY the Assoeiotsd Press
Riding a triumphant 333-to-14
House vote, legislation vastly ex-
panding the Nations social Sc
curity program moved over to the
Senate today.
1t would add 100000 to the
IS 100000 workers now covered by
old-age insurance.
Its sponsors voiced hope it
would lessen strikes and strife
over labor demands for pension
plans financed wholly by employ
ers. In the Federal program.
workers and employers share
equally the cost of the benefits
the workers receive later.
Senate approval is considered
virtually certain-sometime before
the 1850 fall elections.
Increases Minimum to SIS.
Chairman George of the Sem
ate Finance Committee said the
Senate is bound to vote for higher
security benefits, but will not be
able to act before the second ses-
sion of the 81st Congress convenes
In January.
The new bill would raise the
minimum old-age benefit from $40
q month to $25 a month. It would
increase the maximum benefit for
an elderly couple from $85 to
around $126 a month. Benefits
are based on a persons average
wage and the number of his work.
ing years during which he paid
payroll taxes into the program.
The smashing House vote was a
partial victory for a major point
IN what President Truman calls
his Fair Deal" program. The
President, however, had asked that
100000 more workers be brought
under the insurance program, as
compared to the 100000 addi-
tional voted by the House.
Major groups still left out in
clude farm operators, farm hands
and professional people. Those
excluded among others are doctors,
lawyers and editors. Ways and
Means Committee members told
the House that farmers and pro-
fessional, people showed no great
desire to get into the program.
Before the House passed the bill,
it rejected. 232 to 113, a Repub-
lican substitute measure.
Republicans Assail Measure.
Representative Kean, Repub-
lican, Of New Jersey. its author.
said the COP measure would have
put under social security 1900, 900
more persons than was provided
in the administration measure, but
it would have dropped disability
insurance in favor of relief pay
ments to the disabled. Mr.. Kean
said 1t would have cost 81. .250. 0.000.-
900 less a year than the admins
tration bill.
Representative Curtis. Repub-
lican, Of Nebraska and a few other
Republicans assailed the admins
tration measures as "socialistic. -
On the final roll call, this bill was
opposed by only IL Republicans
and 2 Democrats. They were:
Representatives Byrnes. Repub-
lican, Of Wisconsin. Case, Repub-
lican, of South Dakota; Church.
Republican, Of Illinois; Clevenger.
Republican, of Ohio; Crawford,
Republican. of Michigan: Davis,
Democrat. Of Georgia; Eaton, Re-
publican. Of New Jersey; Gwinn
Republican. Of New York; Hoff-
man. Republican. Of Michigan:
McMillen, Republican, of Illinois;
Mason. Republican, Of Illinois:
Wint Smith. Republican. Of Kan
sas; Howard w. Smith, Democrat,
Of Virginia, and Taber, Republi-
can, of New York. Representative
Rankin, Democrat, Of Mississippi
voted present"
Southern Democrats, who have
lined up with Republicans to de-
feat some administration bills. led
the battle for the social security
measure.
In the forefront was Repre-
sentative Doughton, Democrat. Of
North Carolina, the still scrappy,
85-year-old chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee and author
Of the original social security law
passed In 1885. Just before 1t
voted, the House gave Mr.. Dough-
ton . standing ovation. in which
Republicans and Democrats joined.