Show r kl homa Solon 1 Lt L t. t Blocks Senates Senate's I Ballot on N R A ore ore Amendment Proposing Confirmation I l for All An High Salaried Officials Consumes Consumes Con Con- Time and Balks Action i 1 By Associated Press W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Ju June e 11 Senate U-Senate Senate action extending N R A was Vas temporarily blocked today when Senator Gore D. D Okla i ought to amend the resolution continuing the recovery law Jaw to r require quire confirmation of all government officials receiving more mor e than Ihan n a year I F Discussion of Gores Gore's amendment used up the half hour allot allot- ted d by the senate to discussion of the N R A resolution and the chamber under a previous agreement agree ment meat turned to debate on the public utilities holding company bill Chairman Harrison of ot the senate finance committee served notice however that he would call up th the e N R A resolution again later in inthe inthe inthe the day after the vote on the utilIty utility util util- ity bill That was wac duo due at 1 4 p. p m. m eastern standard time Uses Uses' Un Up Tuna Tithe i Harrison u used ed up up the first part I of f the half hour with a description of the N R A resolution as amended by his committee Administration leaders sought to toI I put through the senate in half an hour a a. resolution extending N R A until April next year with the antitrust antitrust antitrust anti anti- trust laws suspended only sufficiently sufficiently to permit agreements governIng govern govern- ing labor conditions and unfair trade practices With the recover recovery law expiring e this weekend the senate met a half hour earlier than usual in an ef ef- ef fort to speed action Leaders believed be be- j ec-j they had cleared the way for quick approval by agreeing to restore the antitrust laws Only half an hour was available for consideration of the N R A measure The senate met at 1130 with an a agreement to he in fJ l debate on the public utilities holding holding hold hold- ing company bill at noon I Agreement Re Reached I A virtual agreement had been reached with senate senat foes of the recovery recovery re recovery re- re covery law to a plan under which the antitrust laws would be restored re restored re- re stored to full vigor but business businessmen men would be allowed to agree on collective bargaining hours wages and certain fair trade practices Unless N R A critics should find finda a last minute flaw in the tho plan senate senate senate sen sen- ate leaders' leaders hoped t to be beable able to put the compromise through in short order Meantime the discussion of federal federal fedl fed fed- eral cral vs state powers ers that arose in the wake wak of ot the supreme courts court's decision scrapping N R A continued with Senator Byrd D. D Va expressing expressing expressing ex ex- pressing st strong opposition to the idea of amending the constitution to broaden federal power He spoke last night at commencement commencement commence commence- ment meat exercises of the college of William Villiam and Mary at Williamsburg Val Va Ya where his colleague Senator Glass D. D Vo yo received an honorary honorary honorary honor honor- ary degree Rights of States If It the Democratic party became the instrument to attempt to destroy destroy destroy de de- stroy the rights of states slates by constitutional constitutional con con- change he said then our historic party will have betrayed betrayed be be- every tradition of its past and violated the first principles of its existence He opposed Secretary Wallaces Wallace's suggestion some months ago that a ab aboard b board ard be set up to lo hold nationwide referenda with the decisions to become become become be be- come the law Jaw of the land Jand which the supreme court c could uld not over over- turn This Byrd said would destroy one of the most important nt checks cheeks and balances devised b by th the wisdom of the founders Only a few hours before Rexford G. G Tugwell who Is 15 undersecretary of agriculture under Wallace had asserts asserted that in the aftermath of ot the supreme court U t decision we uve tie find ourselves deprives deprived of effective means means means' for tor reconstruction Tugwell Tugwell Tugwell Tug- Tug well said the major question now is whether r we ws shall shan once for lor all say that n national questions shall have national solutions Under the tho compromise is before beor the senate senate- today the administration would have no power to to enforce Continued ci on ca A ru Im i GORE STALLS N R A BALLOT Continued from tram Page PaJe One OM agreements or to offer oHer inducements in the way of relaxed antitrust laws lawsto to obtain them Labor Conditions Condition It would merely permit bu business businessmen iness men to meet and work out agreements agreements agreements agree agree- ments governing labor conditions and such fair trade practices al already already already al- al ready outlawed by statute without fear lear of or violating the antitrust laws Senator Clark D D. Mo who has been a strong critic of or N R A A. A said he be favored the compromise because it would outlaw price fixing and other monopolistic practices The agreement was reached in a session of the senate finance committee committee com com- when the administration program program program pro pro- gram was teas endangered by a sudden revolt against extension of the old antitrust law exemptions Chairman Harrison of ot the finance committee assured N R A critics that the new plan would restore the antitrust laws to full effect His assurance apparently satisfied them There was a n wide diversity of or opinion in senate ranks as to whether the permissions for voluntary voluntary volun volun- tar tary agreements would mean anything anything anything any any- thing or would prove practicable Some felt that Industry would like to continue the minimum wage and maximum hour limitations of ot the theold theold theold old codes but others said there would be little agreement even on these two features without some inducement inducement inducement in in- or some compulsion from the government |