Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-15
CONGRESS
CONGRESS
Adjournment Routs
President From Bed
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he had left word early last
night to be informed as soon
as the first session Of the seth
Congress was about to end.
They reported that Mr..
Eisenhower told them he had
no further communications for
Congress. Some members hope
fully interpreted this as mean
ing he does not plan to call
Congress back into special ses-
sion this year.
Rules Suspended
The first test on the proposal
to extend the Civil Rights
Commission came at $40
o'clock last night.
The Senate voted. Ills, 10
suspend its rules so that the
extension move could be con-
sidered as an amendment to
the foreign aid bill. This was
a margin of II votes over a
required two-thirds majority.
BY an identical vote the Senate
then adopted the amendment
itself and went on to pass the
overall bill, 64-25.
The motion to suspend the
rules was adopted with the
votes of 40 Democrats and 2S
Republicans.
Voting against were II
Southern Democrats, from 9 of
the II Southern States, and one
Republican, North Dakota S
Senator Young. The Senators
from only two Southern States.
Tennessee and Texas, supported
the motion.
The only absentee Southerner
from the other nine Southern
States was Senator Mcclellan,
Democrat of Arkansas. who was
understood to have left the city
for a speaking engagement.
The votes, however, were only
the beginning of the bills par
liamentary night ride. Having
been passed last July at a So
191, 1872. 900 total by the House,
the Senate bill carrying a total
of 1891 ,269,5o8 went back to
the House.
A request for unanimous
consent in the House to send
the bill Immediately to confer
ence brought an objection by
Representative Williams, Dem
ocrat of Mississippi. Rules
Committee Chairman Smith,
Democrat Of Virginia. prompt
~ called his group into emer-
gency session to clear the bill
for the conference. Here again
for almost an hour the bill was
delayed mainly by questions
raised by Representative Col
mer. Democrat of Mississippi.
Work Behind Closed Doors
Senate-House conferees
eventually began formal con-
sideration of the two versions
at 1880 pm. They kept on
considering it behind closed
doors until 2:15 am.
The compromise they rec
commended totaled $3,626,218,-
1877, of which $3.225.S13, 900
was for the mutual security part
Of the bill. The measure in
cluded numerous other pro-
visions such as the $500 900
for the Civil Right Commission.
several District items, and 1853
million for the interstate high
way trust fund.
1t likewise contained a con-
siderably revised section for a
cutoff in economic assistance
funds if the International Co.
operation Administration failed
within so days to furnish in
formation requested by Congress
OR the General Accounting
Office. The original House YER
sion was modified by adding
a provision that this would not
apply if the President certified
that disclosure of requested in
formation would not be in the
national interest.
Civil Defense Funds Cut
AS reported out by the con-
ferees and subsequently adopt
ed, the bill provides $685. million
for defense support instead of
S700 million in the original
House bill and $685. million
asked by the administration
1t also cut to $3.50 million the
$500 million that the Senate
bill had allotted for the IT,
velopment Loan Fund. Mr..
Eisenhower had requested 500
million.
In the bills catch-all pro-
visions, funds for the once OF
Civil Defense were slashed from
$6.5 million to $3.2 million.
The House approved the con-
ference report, 194-109, at 1926
am. 1t voted 221-81 to con-
tinue the Civil Rights Commits
sion. Because Of technical and
clerical difficulties in prepar-
ing the formal report, the
compromise bill did not reach
the Senate until 5:46 am. 1t
was approved without debate
and by a voice vote.
Following House passage Of
the conference bill, Appropria-
tons Committee Chairman
Cannon, Democrat of Missouri.
touched off a fiscal dispute by
declaring Congress saved" ST.
$4,000, 000 by cutting that total
from regular appropriation bill
recommendations by the ad-
ministration this year.
Tables Put in Record
Representative Taber, Re-
publican of New York, charged
that this did not account for
lover Sc billion in backdoor ap-
preparations" not reflected in
the budget bills that required
Appropriations Committee scru-
tiny and approval.
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