Evening star., 1953-07-23
Administration Hope
On Foreign Aid Funds
Rests With Senate
By Robert K. Welsh

The Senate today gave Presi-
dent Eisenhower a hope Of
prompt and favorable action on
a foreign aid bill likely to be
bigger than the measure voted
by the House.
AS a bin appropriating $4,-
438,678.000 in new money for the
Mutual Security program came
over from the House, the Senate
Appropriations Committee pre-
pared to report out it's own
version within a day or two.
There were signs that this would
restore some of the major cuts
approved by the House, and that
the Senate might concur early
next week.
The bill passed last night, 288
to lis, upheld slashes recon-
mended by the House Appropria =
tions Committee despite the
Presidents protest earlier in
the day that those cuts were
too deep. The new money ap-
preparation was $700 million
under the Presidents request.
Point Four Restored.
House Republicans defending
the reductions insisted that the
bill should not be considered as
a rebuff to the President. In
fact, the only item added to the
bill was described as a token
of support for the President
and the Presidents brother"
This restored SIS million for
the Point Four technical assist
ance in South America. The
committee had trimmed the
original request from $24,342, 900
to SIS million The amendment
offered by Representative Vorys,
Republican, of Ohio, and ap-
proved, 120 to 81, increased it
to $40 million. Mr.. Vorys noted
that Milton S. Eisenhower is in
South America on a fact-f1nding
tour for the President.
In other respects, however, the
showing in the House was hardly
satisfactory to the White House.
On the final roll call vote at
7:30 pm. after almost seven
hours of debate and amendment
attempts, 159 Democrats, 1913
Republicans and one Indepen-
dent supported the measure.
There were 81 Republicans and
33 Democrats against it.
Division votes on half dozen
major amendment proposals to
restore sums to the level of the
Eisenhower budget requests dis
closed that fewer than 20 Repub-
licans favored reversing the Ap-
preparations Committee reduc-
tionS.
Representative Javits, Repub-
lican, of New York, offered most
of those proposed amendments.
Republican House leaders pre-
dicted at the outset of the debate.
that the bill would go through
without any great change, and
this prediction was borne out.
Democratic leaders opposed
most of the committees cuts
from the Eisenhower totals and
from the much higher ones sug-
geSted by former President Tru-
man. They nevertheless made
no active effort to propose spe-
cific amendments or otherwise
assist except by voting. More
over, most Of the speaking de-
bate was between Republicans.
Several Democrats confined their
speeches to needing the Repub-
licans for mot supporting the
President"
Some Garry Over Vote.
Besides appropriating the S4.4
billion figure in new money, the
House-approved bill authorized
the Mutual Security Administra-
ton to spend another SIT bill
lion in unobligated funds carried
over from the previous fiscal
year.
But the bill barred the use of
another $414 million in such
carry-over money. It actually
cut more than $1.1 billion from
the Eisenhower requests. The
President had asked for $5,138,-
922,277 in new money, and this
was reduced by $700 million. OF
that total reduction of $1.1 bill
lion, about $500 million was in
military assistance and $500 mil
lion in economic aid.
The House defeated proposed
amendments that would have re-
stored 1912 million for military
aid in Europe, $50 million for
defense support in Europe, $12
million for economic and tech
n1cal assistance in the Near East
and Africa, $40 million for SINH
lar aid in Asia and the Pacific
area, $8.5 million for United
States participation in a United
Nations technical cooperation
program, and 81 million for this
country's contribution to the
U. N. Children's Emergency
Fund.
Ceiling Voted Down.
The House fight wound UP
with an unsuccessful attempt by
Representative Coudert, Repuh-
lican, of New York to limit for
eign aid spending to $5.5 billion
during the present fiscal year.
Republican leaders opposed
limitation on the ground that it
would mean another $1.3 billion
cut in funds available to the ad-
miniStration. Under the bill as
passed the administration could
spend well over Sc billion. in
cluding the $4.4 billion in new
money and the SIT billion in
authorized carry-over funds.
Among other the defeated
amendment proposals was one
offered by Representative Sutton,
Democrat, of Tennessee. 1t was
aimed at preventing use of for
eign aid funds in any country
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