Evening star., 1950-08-27
Agreement Expected
This Week on Bill for
Wage-Price Controls
By the Assoeioied Press

w 9V INV Will VIZ
BY the Asseeiated Press
A House Democratic leader yes
terday predicted Senate House
agreement this week on COM
promise to keep authority for
age-price-rationing controls in
the proposed home front mobiliza-
ton law.
Chairman Spence of the House
Banking Committee said it would
be "a bad mistake" to strip the
anti-infiation measure of power to
invoke such controls.
The possibility that might hap
pen arose Friday when Senate
House conference committee dead
locked over whether to give Pres
ldent Truman a free hand to put
wage-price curbs and rationing
into effect.
The conference group is trying
to work out differences between
separate economic controls bills
passed by the two branches of
Congress.
Spence Disagrees.
Mr.. Spence, chief of the House
conferee, said he disagrees with
Senate suggestions that elimina-
tion Of wage-price-rationing au-
thority might be the only way to
smash the deadlock
Both the Senate and the House
bills also provide for control of
consumer credit and new, con-
struction real estate credit. for
ALLEGATION of scarce industrial
materials and assignment of de-
fense production priorities. and
for a big federal loan program to
spur defense output.
The major difference between
the two measures deals with wage
price-rationing curbs.
The House bill would let the
President invoke the controls on
a selective basis. in advance of
any general program.
The Senate would require Mr.
Truman to put wage-price con-
trols into effect at the same time,
If at all. and virtually across the
board.
Senators Refuse to Bulge.
House members of the confer
ence committee have refused
unanimously to give up the idea
of selective controls. A control
ling group of the Senate conferees
on the other hand, has refused to
bulge from the Senate position.
Senator Maybank. Democrat of
South Carolina, who heads the
Senate cenferees, has tried with
out success so far to have his
colleagues accept the House pro-
vision. which Mr.. Truman is re-
ported willing to sign.
Senator Maybank has said he
would rather see all authority
for wage-price-rationing controls
knocked out of the bill than have
it contain the Senate's "all O.
nothing" provision, which was
sponsored by Senator Bricker, Re-
publican of Ohio.
Fridays deadlock developed
after the Senate representatives
in the conference had voted 4 to
4 on motion to give up their
insistence on the Senate wage
price provision. The tie defeated
the motion.
Tobey Out of Town.
At that time Senator Maybank
said he had not been able to get
in touch with the ninth Senate
conteree. Senator Tobey, Republi-
can Of New Hampshire, to break
the tie.
Yesterday in Concord. N. H,
Senator Tobey charged that ad-
ministration forces had forced
deadlock" by failing to name
another Republican Senator to
take his place on the conference
committee.
Senator Tobey said that before
he left Washington Tuesday he
gave instructions that Senator
Ives, Republican of New York,
was to replace him on the COM
mittee if Democratic Senator
Taylor of. Idaho, who was then
away. returned to the Capital.
Senator Tobey contended that
Senator Taylor was brought in
to assure a deadlock, and that
Senator Ives was not named as
the ninth Senate conferee.
When the Senate acted on its
bill last Monday, both Senator
Ives and Tobey voted for the
provision.
Charges Propaganda Intent.
The administration. Senator
Tobey added, was forced by the
administration "in order to gain
a few days so that their propa-
ganda guns could be unlimbered. !"
Senator Maybank declined to
comment on Senator Tobey's
complaint, but said:
II take the blame for any mix
up"
Senator Maybank added that
Senate Republicans actually are
entitled to only three places on
the conference committee in