Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-08
Foreign Aid Bill
Faces Floor Fight
MeusureCut
Only Slightly
InCommittee
By the Associated Press


President Eisenhower's foreign
aid bill has cleared its first
hurdle, simmer by more than
5000 million.
BY q 1873 vote, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee ap-
proved the bill yesterday after
cutting $227.3 million OF the
presidential request Of $780,
410. 900 for military and economic
aid to free world nations in the
fiscal year beginning July /.
In view Of the congressional
economy drive, some had ex-
pected heavier committee cuts.
The measure, now carrying au-
thority for $3.637,110,000, faces
rougher going next week on the
Senate floor.
The committee-approved YER
sion gives the President author.
ity to continue foreign. aid be-
yond a year. and it also gives
him fiexibility in other ways.
Some Senators have. indicated
they plan a floor fight to retain
the present year-to-year author.
ization procedure.
Still Another Hurdle
The aid program will have to
survive still another hurdle in
the Appropriations Committee.
The foreign aid bill sets ceilings.
The appropriations measures
provide the funds for actual ex-
lpenditure. Only two Democrats
Morse Of Oregon and Long Of
Louisiana-and one Republican,
LANCER Of North Dakota, sup
ported Senator Mansfield, Demo-
crat Of Montana. when he of
fered an amendment to cut the.
overall authority in the bill by
about $500 million. Senator
LANCER voted by proxy from his
sick bed.
In addition to the $3,637,llO.-
900 in new spending authority,
the committee also authorized re-
appropriation of $500 million for
military assistance from funds
left over from the current fiscal
year.
And it authorized a So billion,
three-year program for making
loans for economic development
abroad-providing for a $500
million appropriation for the
year starting July /. plus au-
thority to borrow $3.50 million
from the Treasury in each of the
two succeeding years.
TwO-Year Planning Approved
1t also approved a two-year
program for military assistance
and defense supports. which
would enable the State and De-
Tense Departments to plan aid
that far ahead.
The committee wrote in LAM
guage. drafted by Senate Re-
publican Leader Knowland of
California, permitting a con-
tinuation of assistance to Com.
munist Yugoslavia if the Presi-
dent is convinced it is in the
interest of United States secur-
ity. and If congressional COM
mittees are kept informed "con-
tinuously" Of projected aid.
Chairman Green. Democrat of
Rhode Island. said he will file
the committees report in the
Senate Monday with a view to
calling 1t up for debate some
time next week.
Senator Morse said he would
flle q minority report and fight
the bill in the Senate. Senator
Long said he will join Senator
Morse and added: I'VE will have
greater support on the floor
than he did in the committee.
The committee granted Mr..
Eisenhower much of the longer
range authority and flexibility
he had asked.
1t granted him Sl.8 billion in
authority for new military as
sistance, a cut of $500 million.
and approved $500 million in
defense supports, another 500
million cut.
Measure Of Continuity Due
1t. also authorized a SIS bill
lion military assistance program
and an $500 million defense sup
port plan for the fiscal year
starting July /, 1858. II approved
by the Senate and House, these
authorizations would add a
measure Of continuity to those
forms Of assistance.
The committee rejected the
Presidents request for perma-
nent authority for technical aid
But 1t granted all the money
he asked for that program for
next year: $751; million for d.
rect help, $l5.5 million for the
technical cooperation program.
and SIS million for a similar
program Of the organization of
American States.