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As Washington Sees It...
THE NAHOXAl SCENE
Si4rcial to The Chronicle.
Washington, Sept. 12—Specula
tion in Washington as a result of bit
ter partisan debates in the congress
ran the gamut of whether President
Truman would veto the proposed
control bill and the revised “inter
im” tax bill and whether or not a
“fireside chat" to the people would
ease the political pressure on the
administration as a result of GOP
charges of laxity in pre^Korean war
preparations.
Despite charges of administration
blunders, whether true or untrue, the
harping and “pious hypocrisy” ap
parent in the deliberations of con
gress was tending to hamstring the
administration efforts in carrying on
the Korean war and defense security
end efforts at combatting Russian
propaganda on the floor of the Un
ited Nations security council at Lake
Success.
In the name of politics, congress
is handing the President a control
bill so fraught with restrictions as
to make it nigh impossible* at ad
ministration. As this is written,
there was conjecture as to whether
or not the President would accept
the measure. At the same time, the
congress made no secret of its haste
to pass the draft law and to get men
into military service as fast as pos
sible. It was averse to drafting dol
lars, business and industry to pay
the price in a comprehensive tax
bill.
The senate changed radically thp
controls bill passed by the house, act
ing on several of scores of the Pres
ident in administering the emergen
cy measure. One amendment pro
posed by Sen. John W. Bricker of
Ohio makes it mandatory on the
part of the President to control
wages and prices in all industries
and on ail commodities if he deems
it necessary to control in one indus
try or one commodity. In other
wordsf if the President and his ad
visors believed it necessary to con
trol prices on soy beans or auto
mobile wheels to prevent ihflatiofi
or runaway prices on those two
items, it would be necessary for him
to institute price and wage controls
on everything. Another anti-admin
istration amendment adopted was
fostered by Senator Edwin C. John
son of Colorado specifying that the
secretary of commerce should han
dle the entire allocation and priori
ties program. The administration
wanted it left to the President to de
cide which agency would handle par
ticular allocations. It appeared likely
that at least this Johnson restriction
would be stricken out of the bill in
conference. -
Instead of giving the President
authority to regulate speculation on
the commodity exchanges, the senate
adopted an amendment giving the
commodity exchanges themselves
authority to police speculators.
The senate passed the perennial
federal highway bill after lopping
off approximately $359,000,000 in
authorizations at the expense of the
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secondary and urban road program.
Total bill authorizations passed by
the Senate was $1,138,000,000, while
the bill passed by the house carried
authorization of $1,293,000,000. Pres
ident Truman had asked the bill to
be cut a total of $240,000,000 for the
two year period ending June 30, 1953,
but the senate went on to slash $119,-
000,000 more out of the bill, after
completely eliminating a new for
mula for distribution for roads ad
jacent to large cities in the inter
state highway system.
As it went to the conference the
bill provided authorization for fiscal
1952 and 1953: $225,000,000 for pri
mary roads; $135,000,000 for second
ary roads; $112,000,000 for urban
roads; and pnnual expenditures of
$40,000,000 for forest highways; $10,-
000,000 for park roads and trails;
$13,000,000 for parkways; $6,000,000
for Indian reservation roads and $5,-
000,000 for emergency highway re
pairs and construction; $4,000,000 for
the inter-American highway; $10,-
000,000 for roads to military instal
lations; $5,000,000 for'rpads on pub
lic domain and $3,500,000 for the
Tongass forest roads in Alaska.
The motion to slash $130,000,000
from the secondary or farm-to-mark-
et road authorization was made by
Senators Harry Byrd of Virginia and
Styles Bridges of New Hampshire.
It reipains to be seen whether the
appropriations committee will ac
tually furnish the money.
Fight in the emergency tax bill
was over an excess profits tax fea
ture.
Holiday Death
Toll Reaches ^
Record of 559 /
Labor Day week-end highway
traffic proved not as deadly as pre
dicted, but the nation’s, overall hol
iday accident toll set a new record.
Five hundred fifty nine persons
died violently in accidents of all
kinds. This total displaced last year’s
550 as an all-time record for the
Labor Day period.
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