Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1937 — Page 12

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REP. HALLECK ONLY HOOSIER

VOTING ‘NO’ ON

MOVE T0 BRING

WAGES-HOURS BILL TO FLOOR

Minton and VanNuys Turn Down V. Turn Down Vandenberg’ s Proposal On Farm Measure; Indiana Senators Also Oppose Dairying and McAdoo Amendments.

By E. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21

‘Senate of the ‘“‘Ever-Normal

R. R. —Passage of the House and

Granary” Farm Bill, now in

conference between the two houses, was the principal achievement of the five-and-a-half-week special session of the 75th

Congress. gram for the session.

The Farm Bill was No. 1 on the President’s proItem No. 2 was the Wage-and-Hour

Bill approved by the Senate at the last session, upon which the President desired final action by the Héuse.

House action was taken?

during the last week of the session when the Wage-Hour Bill was recommitted to the House Labor Committee, where it is likely to remain until the expiration of the

present Congress in 1938.

There is’ no absolute certainty that the Ever-Normal Granary Bill will ever reach the President. The House and Senate versions are so different that a failure of the bill in conference at the next session is possible. In the House the lines of leadership were battered until they crumbled under assaults by opponents of wage-hour legislation. Even before that final coup the leadership had weakened in its dealings with the Farm Bill.

Petition Brings Action Forced to resort to a discharge

petition to extricate the Wage-Hour Rill from the Rules Committee, the

leadership succeeded—by a House vote of 285 to 123—in bringing that measure to the floor. The entire Indiana membership in the House, with the exception of Rep. Halleck (R), voted to take the bill from the Rules Com- | mittee. He voted against it. A week of hectic wrangling ensued. The hill as it had come en the Senate had provided for ad- | ministration by a five-man com- | Jission. The House in Committee of the whole, however, substituted the Norton Bill, which provided for a single administrator functioning under the Department of Labor. This substitution, coupled with a host of amendments, contributed largely to its eventual recommittal. The bill was opposed from * the start by a group of Southern irreconcilables who feared that any wage-dnd-hour regulation by the > Federal Government would militate against industry in the South. The .opposition of William Green president of the American Federation of Labor, to the bill as drawn gave members of Congress from other sections courage to oppose its enactment.

Back to Committee

The net resultiof these tangled views and diverse motives was that the bill was reincreased in the Committee on Labor by a margin of 18 votes—216 y to 198 nays. Hoosier Ho members voting to recommit were Reps. Halleck, Pettengill, Farley, Jenckes and _Boehne. Of these all except Rep. Halleck earlier had voted to bring the measure to the floor. Voting against recommitting were Reps. Schulte, Griswold, Greenwood, Lrowe, Gray, Larrabee, and Ludow. The Senate Farm Bill as passed was considerably more drastic in its compulsory features and penalty provisions than the measure previously passed by the House. The two bills differ, moreover, in other important respects. One of the closest Senate fights |; developed over an amendment by Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich) to limit expenditures to $500,000,000 yearly. The committee draft of the Farm Bill, however, provided, for “such sums as are necessary,” and this “no-limit” view’ prevailed, the Vandenberg amendment being voted down, 23 yeas to 49 nays. . Senators Minton and VanNuys of Indiana voted against the - Vandenberg proposal. A much closer Senate division was recorded on an amendment by Republican Leader McNary of Oregon - to protect the dairy industry from overexpansion by withholding soil ' conservation payments from lands withdrawn from cultivation but subsequently diverted to dairy pastur-

age. The McNary amendment, dden-}

tical with the Boileau amendment written “into - the House bill, was ‘agreed to by the Senate, 41 yeas to 38 nays. : . | Senators Minten and VanNuys of Indiana voted against the dairying amendment. Only a few hours before the Farm Bill was passed, Senator McAdoo (D. Cal.) offered a substitute embodying the so-called “cost of production” formula. It. provided that . prices should be pegged so as to return to the farmer his cost of production plus 4 per cent on his investment. This substitute was voted down, 40 yeas to 46 nays. Senators Minton and VanNuys of - Indiana voted against the McAdoo amendment. After rejection of the McAdoo amendment, ’ the Senate Far Bill moved swiftly to ‘passage. ‘view of the close division in tre House on the same question ‘a. week earlier, it had been thought that the Senate Farm Bill might escape recommittal by the barest of margins. - But this proved not to be the case, the margin against recommitial be-

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ing about two to one, 2 yeas to 57 nays. . Senators Minton and VanNuys of Indiana voted against recommittal. On final passage, there were 59 yeas to 20 nays. Analysis of the roll calls shows that a few Senators shifted their positions, voting for recommittal and also for the bill on final passage. Senators Minton and VanNuys of Indiana voted for the farm bill on final passage. Shortly before the session closed, a surprise development in the House paved the way for early consideration of the “war plebiscite” amendment to the Constitution first proposed by Rep. Ludlow of Indiana in 1935. Rep. Ludlow himself was surprised—and the House leadership shocked—when the 218th signature unexpectedly was aifixed to a dis-

charge petition which will have the

effect of bringing the proposed

jamendment to the floor on Jan. 10.

The pending measure provides for the submission to the states of a constitutional amendment prohibit-

{ing Congress from declaring war, ex{cept in cases of invasion by a for-

{eign power, without first submitting {the question to a national referendum.

Buried in Committee When first introduced in the 74th Congress, the Ludlow amendment was buried in the Judiciary Committee. and & discharge petition to extricate it received only 74 signatures. Reintroduced last February, the proposal was again sent to the Judiciary Committee and a discharge petition had received only 185 signatures when the regular session ended in August. The petition still was pending, however” when the special session convened, and was completed after the “Panay incident” in the Sino-Japanese war. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull both have expressed publicly their disapproval of the “war plebiscite” idea. The Ludlow resolution needs two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate before it may be submitted to the states. All. Hoosier representatives signed the Ludlow discharge betition except Reps. Halleck, Greenwood and ne. The order of their signa on the petition is: Ludlow, 1; Gray, 28; Jenckes, 33; Schulte, 34; ee 59; ‘Pettengill, 67; Griswold, 70; Crowe; 84, and Farley, 197.

nich inh DA A REPORT WHITE IMPROVING

ROCHESTER, MINN., Dec. 21 (U. P.). — Mayo Clinic physicians said today that William Allen White, Emporia, Kas. editor, will be released from Colonial Hospital soon. Mr. White "has made “excellent progress” after an operation last week, the doctors said. -'

Stoops Scores Road Program, Motor Taxes

The U. S. Treasury last year re‘ceived $60,000,000 more in taxes paid by motorists than was spent for roads through Federal assistance to states. Thdd Stoops, Hoosier Motor Club secretary-manager charged today. The money received but not used in the road program could be aps. plied toward balancing the Federal Pot. Mr. Stoops told the Indiana University Club meeting at the Columbia Club yesterday. Criticizes Expenditures ] “We all know the Federal budget must be balanced,” he said. “We can’t go on forever like we have been for the last four or five years:”

poli cost of about $30,000 a mile. start no place and go no place. but were built because some politician wanted them.” Indiana’s highway system “is not

Mr. Stoops said. The State’s roads

not and cannot meet traffic n he explained.

NATIVE OF ENGLAND DIES

CLINTON, Dec. 21 (U. PJ.— Robert J. Collier, 81, former Clinton businessman and a native of England, died here last night, his 42d wedding anniversary.

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