Evening star., 1952-06-27
Congress Ends
Deadlock
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Adjournment Fever
Spurs Action on
MuIti-BiIIion Outlay
By the Associated Press

MuIti-BiIIion Outlay
BY the Associated Press
The log-jam of Congress- money
bills finally has broken-on a
multi-billion dollar scale.
And the breakup is proceeding
so fast that leaders were talking
with some confidence today of be-
ing able to wind up the session.
and the 82d Congress-for good a
week from tomorrow.
The House scheduled the OPEN
ing of debate today on it's last
pending Appropriation bill-$1O
billion in new funds for foreign
aid. military projects and other
purposes next year.
And the Senate, which has been
tagging far behind the House, was
in the throes of a get-out-of- town
fever.
Senate Actions Listed.
These were the actions the Sem
ate took yesterday:
$45,734,750,912 military bill
approved by Appropriations Com
mittee after brief consideration
and sent to the floor.
$3,437, 1895. 900 compromise Treas
ury-Post Office bill-passed with
out debate and sent to President
Truman. the first of the fiscal 1853
bills to reach the President desk.
$1,012,547,852 State Commerce
Justice bill-passed and sent to
conference with the House to
adjust differences.
$76.886,648 legislative bill car
rying funds for Congress ap-
proved by Appropriations Com
mittee for floor action.
The legislative measure was
scheduled to be passed and sent
to conference today-the ninth
money bill to be acted on by the
Senate out of II that must be
passed before Congress can quit.
House Provision Modified.
In approving it yesterday, the
Appropriations Committee modi-
fed a House provision which
would have given the lawmakers
the privilege of claiming income
tax exemption on all their living
costs during congressional sessions.
The committee kept the tax re-
duction feature but limited the
exemption to the first $2,400 of
such costs.
In the House, administration
leaders saw little chance of re-
storing the Is per cent cut made
by the Appropriations Committee
in President Truman's $13,75O.-
688.280 request for defense con-
struction. foreign aid, atomic
energy expansion and other things.
In fact, an attempt was ex-
pected to make even deeper cuts
in foreign military and economic
aid. The committee recommended
Sc. .275 ,940,7 $50, including funds for
governing occupied areas of Ger
many and Trieste.
Fund Pledging Hit.
Moreover, in an ACCOMMODATING
statement, the committee told the
administration it should ston
pledging funds to foreign coun-
tries before Congress has voted the
money.
Mutual aid funds in the bill are
to implement the program recent
ly voted by Congress. The other
appropriations will supplement
funds already voted for the cur
rent fiscal year, ending June 30.
or the next year beginning July l.
The Senate committee action on
the military spending bill-by far
the biggest Of all the money meas
ures-produced a surprise yester-
day.
That was because the group cut
the total in the bill $472 million
below the House figure even
though President Truman and his
military chiefs had complained
that the House total was much too
low. The House reduced Mr.. Tru-
mans requests by about $4.7 bill
lion.
Ceiling Removed.
However, the committee did
knock off a $40 billion spending
ceiling voted by the House for
fiscal 1853. This would have held
spending $6 billion under the
planned figure. It drew the heav-
lest attacks from the White House
and Pentagon.
The biggest cut made by the
group below the House figures
$298 million-was in Air Force
funds.
But Chairman O'Mahoney of
the Military Appropriations sub
committee insisted there was
enough money in the bill to make
scheduled progress toward COM
pletion of the 143-wing Air Force
oy July l, 1955-the Presidents
target date.
House leaders said they would
drive for a vote today on the
Houses $40 billion bill but other