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Senate to ask return of the bill
from the House.
House Far Ahead
The House is so far ahead of
the Senate ia it's legislative
business that its work after to-
morrow will be mainly to act
on amended bills sent over
from the Senate or from con-
ference committees.
Tomorrow, however, the
House will have its hands full.
Leaders have scheduled IS bills
to be called UP under suspen-
sion of the rules. The most
controversial of these is the
Kennedy-IveS bill, which the
House Education and Labor
Committee refused to consider.
Almost equally controversial,
but given a better chance for
success in the House tomorrow,
lis a suggested compromise YER
sion of the Senate-approved
$2.4 billion housing bill. This
measure provides for urban re-
newal and slum clearance pro-
grams, housing construction for
elderly persons and building of
college claSsrooms.
A bill brought up under sus-
pension of House rules needs
a two-thirds majority vote for
passage. 1t can be debated
only 40 minutes and cannot be
amended.
The housing bill is among
those which the Rules Commit
tee, headed by Representative
Smith. Democrat of Virginia,
has refused to clear for House
consideration. At its meeting
last Friday-arranged after Mr..
Smith came back to Washing
ton after an absence of almost
a Week-the committee cleared
a Senate-approved bill for min
ing industry subsidies. 1t also
cleared the Fryingpan bill, a
sure harbinger of approaching
adjournment. That Senate bill,
authorizing a Federal reclama-
ton project in the Fryingpan-
Arkansas River Valleys in Colo
RADIO, was approved by the Sen
ate in 1854, 1856 and last year.
In each instance it was sent to
the House floor by the Rules
Committee on the eve of ad-
journment, only to be shelved.
May Be One More
Despite statements last Fri
day that the committee intend
ed to close up shop for the ses-
sion at that time, there were
reports yesterday that
it might hold one more meet
ing this week.
This prompted Senator Ke-
fauver. Democrat of Tennessee,
to voice the hope in the Senate
yesterday that the House COM
mittee will let the House lat
least consider the merits" of a
bill passed exactly a year ago
by the Senate permitting the
Tennessee Valley Authority to
issue bonds to finance con-
struction of additional plants.
The fate of a bill creating as
additional Federal judgeShips
throughout the country also
may depend on the willingness
of the Rules Committee to meet
again. House Judiciary Com
Chairman Celler, Demo-
crat Of New York, has been I'M
successful thus far in persuad-
ing Mr.. Smith to bring out that
bill.
From all appearances one of
the last legislative moves of the |
House and Senate will be to do
something about the 1859 In
dependent Ofiices appropriation
bill vetoed by President Eisen-
hover because it contained $3.50 |
for the Civil Service Re-
.irement Fund. Congressional
leaders concede they do not
have the votes to override the
veto. They have not disclosed
whether they will repass the
SIS billion appropriation bill .
without the Civil Service fund .
item or merely enact a resolu-
ton to give the Is affected /
the same amount of
they received during the
previous fiscal year.
The national-debt resolution
seems likely to be passed by the /
Senate tomorrow and returned /
10 the House with amendments. |
The House voted to raise the .
ceiling from $27S
billion to S285 billion and set a
temporary ceiling of 1888 bill
lion until next June 80. The /
Senate Finance Committee last
week recommended a 1888 bill
ion permanent limit and a
1888 billion temporary top.
The foreign aid appropriation
bill probably will be one of the
last bills on which Congress
completes action before ad-
iournment. President EiSen-
hover requested a $3.50. 092, 500
n military and economic assist
ance to friendly foreign coun-
tries. The House voted S3.07S.-
l92 500. The Senate Appropria-
ions Committee recommended
So, 5l8.092. 500. Some Senators
want to put the total still closer
10 Mr.. Eisenhower's request. /