Evening star., 1952-05-25
Senate May Replace
Half Of House Cut
In Foreign Aid Bill
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SUNDAY, MAY rs, 1852
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The Senate may restore about
half of the $726,50O, 900 cut from
the foreign aid bill on the House
floor Friday.
But even this would mean a
Senate cut of about $400 million
from the bill as reported from two
] Senate committees.
The Senate Committee version,
on which debate stars tomorrow,
authorizes $6.9 billion. The House
allowed only a little more than
/ $6.1 billion. The President asked
for $7.9 billion.
Committees in both the House
!, and Senate began by chopping off
about 81 billion. Even administra-
ton supporters have little hope Of
getting that back.
They will try to have the Sem
ate restore all of the additional
cuts a coalition made in the House.
These cuts took another $615, $780,
900 from defense support for
Western Europe, and $1ll, 400, 900
more from the same kind Of aid
to Asia.
Reliable sources predicted last
night, however, that the economy
bloc will succeed in trimming be-
tween $400 million and $500 mil
lion from the $6.9 billion Senate
version.
If that happens, conferees from
both houses will writ the final
draft of the bill at somewhere
between SCI and $6.5 billion.
Must Figure by Areas.
The conferees also will have to
determine how to apportion the
cuts by areas. This is due to the
fact that the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee made it's ST.
billion cut by taking about IL per
cent from all geographic regions. !.
The House. took nearly all of it's
reduction from Western Europe.
Two influential Democrats -
Senators Connally Of Texas and
/ George of Georgia - will lead a
fight to hold the bill at 500 bill
lion, which would be equivalent
to restoring all of the House floor
cuts.
/ Senator Connally said yester-
day the House cut out too much.
Senator George, who made the
motion in committee for the orig
inal 81 billion cut from the $7.9
billion Budget estimate, said that
is as far as Congress can go
safely.
st am counting on bipartisan
support of our defense program to
avoid doing what the House did. "
said Senator Connally. I'VE are
not playing politics and we are
not demagoging."
There are some other Democrats,
however, who are expected to vote
with majority of the Republicans
for another cut. One pending
motion, for a $4O0 million cut, is
sponsored by Senator Long, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana.
Two Amendments Pending, d
A group of Republicans, fed by
Senator Welker of Idaho. have two
amendments pending. One would
cut off second 81 billion. The
other would make the floor cut
$500 million. No one expects the
Senate to cut more than $500 mil
lion from the $6.9 billion figllte.
The number absent on the day the
vote is taken may determine the
issue.
The Senate porbably viii not
vote before Wednesday or Thurs
day.
Senator Taft Of Ohio and Gen.
Eisenhower. the. leading con-
tenders for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination, have ex-
pressed conflicting views on the
size of the foreign aid bill. Sem
ator Taft. who will be back in
Washington, has said he would
vote to cut the bill to Sc billion.
The General has sent word that
any cut materially greater than
the 81 billion made in committee
would encourage this country's
enemies.
But Senator Hickenlooper, Re-.