SATURDAY. MARCH 26. 1955
Senate Pay Raise OK
May Bring Ike's Veto
WASHINGTON, March 25 (EP)—The Senate overrode President Dwight D. Eisenhow
'er's wishes today and voted to give 1,500,000 government workers a 'lO per cent raise in pay.
It thereby risked a veto; the President has said he would view a raise of such a size
with gteat concern.
A rollcall vote of 72-21 approved the increase for 500,000 postal workers.
Then the Senate rushed through a similar raise for about 1,000,000 federal employes
in the ranks of the classified Civil Service. Passage was on a voice vote.
School Plan
Stirs Mobs
In Belgium
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 25
W)—Police set up roadblocks and
patrolled Brussels' streets today.
They took steps ih cope *ith any
violence stemming from thieat
ened Roman Catholic demonstra
tions tomorro* against the gov
ernment'S proposed cuts in church
school subsidies.
Nine thousand state police were
moved into the capital to enforce
a government ban on all gather
ings of more than five people to
morrow. Gro up movements ,by
buses, trucks or special trains in
to Brussels have been prohibited.
Premier Achille Van Acker
called on all persons to a vOid
trouble. In a communique, he
said:
"The government condemns the
attitude Of those who do not hesi
tate to disturb public order for
partisan interests. Order will be
maintained."
Despite the warning, many
Catholics were , believed deter
mined to go , throUgh with the,
demonstrations against what they
charge is a government move to
,freeze out the chtiich schools in
favor of the state system.
Of Belgium's 1,646,000 school
chilthen, 934,000 attend church
Schools. According •to some esti
mates, • the planned slash in sub
sidies to Catholic schools amounts
to. 250 million francs (filie million
dollars).
The government contends it is
trying td aerrect alleged abuses
by the previous. regiihe Which had
a Catholic Majority in the Cabi
net. It accused its predecessor of
encouraging parochial schools at
the expense of state institutions.
Modern Wage Plan
Asked for Railroads
WASHINGTON, Iviarch 25 (W)
—A presidential board today rec
ommended an overhaul of the
wage rate structure on the na
tion's railroads.
It said there are inequities and
out-of-date featuies, and a com
mission should be set up to mod
ernize the pay structure of the
men who run the' trains.
The recommendation dealt spe
cifically with the operating class
of employes-engineers, conduc
tors, trainmen, etc.-=not with such
nonoperating jobs as clerks and
repairmen.
The legislation now goes to the,
House, where administration lead
ers Will reform their ranks to
give it possibly tougher opposi
tion.
010.1zients of the 10 per cent
boost called it impractical--"an
empty gesture." They said the
President would never sign bills
raising public pay that much
when the budget was still un
balhnced.
It is estimated the raise for pos
tal, workers would cost 220 mil
lion dollars annually and that for
the classified einployees about 500
million, a total of 720 million dol
lars.
- Eisenhower has sought to hold
the raise down to about 6 per cent
for the Civil Service and 7.6 per
cent for the Post Office Depart
ment.,
But Democrats declared they
were "tired" of attempted dicta
tion from the executive - branch.
They asserted the Senate should
do what it believed to be right.
Congress voted itself a 50 per
cent raise recently, and members
are now drawing $22,500 a year.
The Senate set its course on
the pay bills by first rejecting a
7.6 per cent raise for postal work
ers, offered by administration
l s e 2 a -41. . The rollcall vote was
Pinay Urges OK
Of Paris Treaties
PARIS, •March 25 (?P)—"Don't have made German rearmament
be behind the diplomatic times," their implement for dislocating
Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay the Western solidarity."
told the French Senate today in a Piney said it was too often for
speech urging approval of the gotten that France had taken the
Paris treaties -to free and rearm lead in pulling the West together
West Germany. and that many "have sought to
The final vote is expected to=
morrow. Approval would make
France the 10th of the 15 signa
tory nations to complete legislative
action on the treaties. The other
five: Belgium, Dnmark, Luxem
bourg, the Netherlands and the
United States.
Pinay warned the senators that
failure to approve the treaties
"woWd be falling into the Rus
sian t r a p because the Soviets
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Ike's Putting Area
May Suffer;
Squirrels to Stay
WASHINGTON, March 25 (JP)—
The way things are going, you'd
almost think squirrels could vote.
James C. Hagerty, presidential
press sicretary, announced today
that the White House has sworn
off trapping squirrels:
He confessed that three have
been caught on the White House
grou n d s and banished to the
woods because they've been dig
ging up President Eisenhower's
putting green.
But Hagerty promised, "There
will be no more trapping."
This didn't nullify Oregon's an
imal-loving Sen. Neuberger (D.-
Ore.) who began a save-the-White-
House-squirrels campaign earlier
this week. Now he wants to know
who did the trapping.
Arising in the Senate today,
Neuberger served notice that
there's a 1906 District of Columbia
law which makes it illegal to trap
Isquirrels or make yourself a nui
sance around them in other ways.
have it believed that the Paris
agreements are imposed on us by
our allies."
Considerable sentiment has
built up in the Senate for an
amendment which might make
deposit of the instruments of rat
ification dependent on agreement
on a European arms pool, a clari
fication of the Saar agreement
with Germany, or new efforts for
a Big Four meeting.
Senate-House Group
Kills $2O Tax Cut
WASHINGTON, March 25 (W)—A Democratic plan to cut in
come taxes $2O a person was killed today in a major victory for the
Eisenhower administration.
House Democrats backing the proposal tossed in the towel in a
Senate-House Conference Committee. The upshot was that the com
mittee approved a Senate bill merely continuing present corpora
tion income and excise tax rates
for one more year.
The Senate then swiftly passed
this bill. It shouted its approval,
without even a record vote, after
Senator Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), a
foe of tax cuts at this time, pre
sented the committee report with
a brief explanation.
Final Action Tuesday
House leaders scheduled final
action on the bill—minus the tax
cut—next Tuesday. But that was
almost a formality now. Th e
steam was taken out of the fight
when House Democrats yielded
in the committee
That sounded the death knell
for the Democratic plan, pushed
through the House by a 210-205
vote, to give each taxpayer and
each dependent a $2O annual tax
cut starting next Jan. 1.
House Ties Cut
The • House tied this cut to an
Eisenhower administration bill
extending corporation and ex
cise taxes. The Senate defeated
the tax cut, 61-32, and passed the
straight extension bill as urged
by Eisenhower. The Conference
Committee was appointed to set
tle the conflict.
Rep. Jere Cooper (D-Tenn.),
chairman of the Conference Com
mittee and of the tax-writing
House Ways and Means Commit
tee, predicted the Hous ewould
approve the report with little to
do. .
Unless extended, corporation in
come ar.d excise tax rates would
drop on April I—just one week
away—by about three billion dol
lars annually. The excises apply
to automobiles, cigarettes, liquor;
and other items.
Cooper said it was the April 1
deadline which forced House
Democrats to surrender their pet
tax plan.
Ice-Filled Niagara Rages
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., March
25 (EP)—Men stood seemingly
helpless and at least temporarily
defeated today before the destruc
tive onslaught of glacier-like ice
creeping down the Niagara River,
carrying waterfront homes and
buildings with it.
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Atom Plane
Production
Hearing Set
WASHINGTOI` , 'March 25 (W)—.
A Senate-House Atomic Energy
subcommittee plans to ask Air
Force leaders why greater prog
ress hasn't been made in develop
nig atomic planes.
The question will be posed to
Secretary Talbott and top brass at
a hearing next Wednesday.
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn), a
subcommittee member, said toe.ay
he feels part of the difficulty
"may lie in the fact that the ~.ir
Force hasn't any Admiral Rick
over."
He credited Rear Adm. Hyman
George Rickover, who superv:Jad
the building of the atomic sub
marine Nautilus, with pushing it
to a successful conclusion much
earlier than otherwise would have
occurred. Gore said a trip made
by committee members on the :ub
had sparked the inquiry into
plane developments.
Weight Biggest Problem
"As I understand it, the g. ..at.
est single factor in the way of de
velopment of an atomic airp:ane
is weight," Gore said. "Atomic
power has been . harnessed and
there must be some way of adapt
ing it to planes. We want to find
out what's been done along that
line."
The Tennessee senator said
much weight is involved in sh*A
ing the atomic power plant, to
prevent radiation injury.
Develop 'Quiet Planes
If that problem can be licked,
he said it might be possible to
develop perfectly quiet planes
with a source of power of "almoit
limitless duration." He added it
was obvious that any such devel
opment would revolutionize mili
tary and civilian aviation.
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