Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-24
Senator Pledges
Vote on Reform
Of Bad Actors
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer


employment reform bill post
poned by his committee COL
leagues.
The bill would protect job
seekers from INSCRIPTIONS
agents who overcharge, split
fees with employers and tempt
employees to quit for other jobs.
Committeeman in executive
session put the bill over until
the next meeting August 8 on
the ground that Senator Har-
IKE, Democrat of Indiana,
wanted to appear. He was I'M
able to make the meeting this
morning.
Committee aides said simply
that the members did not fully
understand the measure and
were not lined up for or against
it.
Senator Morse gave quite
another impression.
He said the bad actors" in
the private-employment indus
try have stirred up agencies in
Oregon. Wires from West
Coast businessmen, unaware Of
the facts here, have been bonn
harding his office, Senator
Morse, said.
81 am serving notice on these
bad actors that this bill will be
voted up or down this session."
the Oregonian, up for re-
election this fall. snapped.
They are out to block the bill.
They picked a fight. I am
going to show them they can't
win"
Senator Morse said he would
press for committee action next
week. Failing a favorable re-
port, he promised to try to tack
his employment practices as a
rider onto bill after bill, ito
show these bad actors they
don't have the political power
they think they do"
The Senator said the bad
actors" make up a minority of
private employment agents.
Most are good ones, he said.
But he insisted the public is
entitled to protection from every
job placement agency.
Home Rule Bills Deferred
The District Committee also
/ passed over home rule bills for
an elected Mayor. city council
and non-oting delegate to the
House. This will be the first
ORDER of business at the Au-
gust 8 meeting.
Eight balls, including au-
thorization to INCREASE from
SIS million to $3.50 million the
Districts authority to borrow
from the Federal Government
for public works, were reported
by the committee.
Senator Morse lost an amend
ment to raise borrowing au-
thority by another $3.50 mil
lion, to be earmarked for
schools. Loans urged by the
committee would help build
elementary and junior high
schools and finance improve
ments at District General Hos
pital, libraries, penal institu-'
lions, recreation centers, police
stations and fire houses.
Passage was recommended
on bills which would:
Allow $103, 300 to be appro-
priated to pay the managers
of school lunch program and
to give free lunches to needy
children in secondary schools.
Now, needy youngsters are given
free lunches only in elementary
schools. Stating costs are
borne by students who pay for
their lunches.
Permit defective persons to
go to the District Training
School voluntarily. Now admis-
sion requires a tedious and
sometimes embarrassing proce-
dure..
Bulwark the prestige Of the
Municipal Court by extending
its jurisdiction to cases involv-
ing damages of from $4,000 to
$4,000 and changing the name
to the District of Columbia
Court of General Sessions. The
new court would have subpoena
powers within a 100-mile ra-
dius of the District and pay it's
witnesses 81 daily, the same
rate paid in the Federal Dis
trict Court.
Adopted was an amendment
to change the name of the
Municipal Court of Appeals to
the District of Columbia Court
of Appeals.
Let city officials sell and de-
stroy lost or abandoned prop
erty, provided liens on lost
automobiles are protected for
a specific period of time.
Permit persons to 'nake gifts
of money as we'll >. securities
without subjecting che recip-
tents to taxes beyond those re-
quired currently in Federal
statutes.
Extend Federal aid for pri-
vate hospitals in the District
until June 80. 1868. This bill
was passed by the House yes
terday and already has cleared
the Senate in substance once
before this session. President
Kennedy vetoed the original bill
because of a technical mistake
IN language. The hospital CEN
Ter wanted the time to ask for
money to help build an addi-
ion to treat chronic diseases.
Streamline the system Of re-
,ording liens on autos and
5railerS. The recorder of deeds
would be relieved of present
to file liens al
ohabetically.