Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-17
Senate Takes Up
Commercially,
Cut Due 10 Stand
First Fiscal 1853
Money Measure
Cleors Congress
By the Associated Press


$613,584,290 Commerce Depart
ment money bill. Prospects were
q 20 per cent cut already made
in it would be sustained.
As approved by the Senate
Appropriations Committee, the
bill carries $257, 92s.71O less in
new funds than the $871,513.000
requested by President Eisen-
hover to run the department
during the fiscal year starting
July /.
The Senate committee total
was $40. 100,770 less than allowed
by the House.
But this apparent reduction
below the House figure was
achieved through a bookkeeping
transaction. Sponsors of the bill
conceded the Senate version ac-
tually would permit SIS million
m ore in spending than the
House approved.
Fund Bill Cleared
The Senate so far has acted
on two appropriations bins,
Treasury-Post ONCE and State
Justice. for the new fiscal year.
Both houses yesterday COM
|pleted action on the Treasury
Post Once bill and sent 1t to the
White House. 1t was the first Of
the regular fiscal 1858 appropri-
atoms bills to clear Congress.
In acting on that measure and
the State-Justice bill. the Sem
ate reduced them S7l4.500 below
the House amounts and 1882
928.509 below Mr.. Eisenhower's
requests.
However, these are cuts in the
Presidents $73.3 billion request
for new appropriations. and do
not necessarily reflect savings in
his $7l.8 billion spending budget.
Much Of the spending In fiscal
1858 will be out Of appropriations
made in past years. :
Plans No Amendment
The biggest cut made in the
Commerce Department bill by
the House was in knocking out
$9l.5 million Of the $94.5 million
asked by Mr.. Eisenhower for ship
construction subsidies. The Sem
|ate Appropriations Committee
|concurred In this.
Senator Magnuson, Democrat
lof Washington. o hacker Of such
subsidies. told Q reporter he did
not plan to offer an amendment
to restore any Of this reduction.
OF the. subsidy total in the
budget. $50 million was to be
used for replacement Of the liner
America. The House said the
replacement would have to be
made. But that q slight delay
would not hurt.
The. House allowed 500 mil.
lion Of the $3.50 million asked BY
Mr.. Eisenhower for ship operat.
ing subsidies. The Senate grouT
approved the same 500 million
but said SOS million Of 1t should
come from an old appropriation
made some years ago for Lqui-
dalton Of the War Shipping Ad.
ministration. Thus, the Senate
committee allowed only $35 mil.
lion in new funds for the item
Always Program
But II this @66 million were
left out Of account. the Senate
measure would show q SIS mil.
lion increase over the House bill
The Senate committee voted
$28. 536.530 more than the House
allowed for an airways moderni.
cation program started by the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
It also upped allotments for the
Business and Defense Services
Administration in the Commerce.
Department, the National Bureau
OF Standards, the Weather
Bureau, the Panama Canal Zone
and some other agencies.
But 1t cut IS million Of the $50
million voted by the House fol
grants TO cities for airports, ir
addition to eliminating some Of
the House funds for forest high.
ways and for subsidies TO air.