Evening star., 1953-08-02
Congress Recesses
Until Tomorrow With
Must Bills Unfinished
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Must Bills Unfinished
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unchanged the provision for
creation of a 17-member special
commission to study trade and
tariff problems and the operation
of the trade agreements pro-
gram.
In a busy day that saw pas
sage or discussion of major bills
and scores of minor measures.
the Senate accepted and sent to
the White House the compromise
bill for admission of 214,000
refugees and other aliens.
That emergency immigration
program requested by President
Eisenhower, who had originally
recommended 100000. was ap-
proved Friday night by the
House. The conference report
smoothed differences between a
Senate bill providing for 209, 900
and a House version calling for
217.000.
Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada, who had threatened
to delay adjournment on the
original bill, told his colleagues
yesterday he was satisfied that
the compromise bill preserved all
safeguards of the McCarran-
Walter immigration Act.
Money Bill Hits Snag.
A supplemental appropriation
bill compromise report adopted
yesterday by the House, ran into
a snag in the Senate. The Sen
atorS sent it back to conference
and insisted on keeping in a pro-
vision to give the new director
of internal information blanket
authority to discharge certain
Classif1cations of employees.
The $545 million bill includes
authorization for 5000 million
for South Korean rehabilitation.
It also provides funds for a
score of agencies, including a
compromise allotting $75 million
to the information program. The
House originally voted for $50
million and the Senate $50 mil
lion.
Still another section of the
bill would move the Voice of
America headquarters from New
York to Washington next year.
The New York office has about
1,500 employees.
Status of Other Bills.
The status of other major leg
islation as both branches quit
for the week end was as follows:
l. The $6.6 billion foreign aid
compromise bill. The House ap-
proved this Friday but the Sem
ate has not yet taken it up.
2. The SIS million famine re-
lief bill. The Senate adopted this
measure yesterday and it now |
goes to the White House.
3. The State-JuStice- Com
merce appropriation bill. This |
is still in conference and must |
be acted on by both branches.
4. The judgeship bill. Conflict |
ing bills by House and Senate
on proposed establishment of |
additional federal judgeshipS in |
many parts of the country are
tied up in conference. 1t was
learned last night that the con-
ferees are so greatly at odds
that a compromise bill may not
be reported out before adjourn
ment.
Postal Bill Passed.
In other actions:
l. The Senate passed and
sent to the President a bill to
reimburse the Post Office De-
partment for handling free
government and congressional
mail. This will cut the postal
deficit by about $50 million a
year. although the cost will be
charged against Congress and
the departments involved. l.
2. The Senate passed and
sent to the White House . bill
to create a committee to look
into experiments on weather
control. The bill would set up an
advisory committee on weather
control to determine the extent
to which the United States
should experiment with or regu-
late activities designed to con-
troll weather conditions.
3. The Senate also sent to
the White House bill to extend
for two years the authority of
the Federal Crop Insurance
Corp. to expand its program into
additional counties.
4. The Senate sent to the
President a measure to authorize
Kentucky and Virginia to enter
into a compact to establish a
bi-State park.