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Show remaining legislative program would have to be surveyed again. Heavily Trimmed The house action came after Mr. Roosevelt's lending program had been battered by a rebellious senate sen-ate which trimmed it almost in half and limited its benefits chiefly chief-ly to agriculture. When Mr. Roosevelt submitted the program, he asked for loan authorizations of $3,000,000,000. The senate banking committee trimmed $310,000,000 from the measure and further attacks on the senate floor reduced the total sum to $1,615,000,000. Meanwhile, the house banking and currency committee had whittled the original orig-inal request down to $1,950,000,000 and reported it Saturday. Separate Housuig Bill Linked to the lending program but covered in a seperate bill, is a proposal for $800,000,000' in additional addi-tional loans for the federal housing administration. The bill, passed by the senate, has been bottled up in the house rules committee. Majority Ma-jority leaders, who had believed that the lending program could be enacted in part, have never been optimistic about the housing loan increase measure. The house vote followed acrimonious ac-rimonious debate. Rep. A. Willis Robertson, D., : Va., was one of the Democrats who successfully urged the house i to refuse to consider the lending till, although Republicans took the lead in arguing against it. Rep. Jerry Voorhis, D., Cal.,, urged consideration of the measure meas-ure and warned that unless the : bill is passed "the immediate task of this congress will be to , do something about the unemployment unem-ployment problem." Rep. Jesse P. Walcott, R., Mich., ranking minority member of the banking and currency committee, said there was no need for the legislation to accomplish ac-complish purposes expressed in the bill. ROOSEVELT BILL BEATEN BY 193-166 WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U.R) The house today killed President Roosevelt's lend in g-.spending g-.spending proKi'am. It did so by refusing to consider a measure carrying loan authorizations auth-orizations totaling $1,950,-000,000. $1,950,-000,000. The house delivered the fatal blow by a vote announced as 193 to 106 agnitist adoption of a rule to make the bill in order. Defeat of the rule for the bill's consideration means that it cannot be considered again by that method meth-od in this congress. Theoretically, other methods of consideration are available but practical obstacles would be even greater. Illoc Scores Win Defeat was accomplished by an almost solid Republican minority aided by Democratic conservatives. conserva-tives. The house broke into an uproar when Speaker Bankhead announced an-nounced the result of the vote. He gaveled furiously for order. No immediate effort was made to reconsider the vote. When he had obtained order, Bankhead directed di-rected the clerk to read some messages mes-sages from the president vetoing minor bills. The sudden action of the house put adjournment plans in confu sion. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley had said this morning he did not believe that congress could adjourn until a week from tomorrow. At that time, however, he said this estimate was "subject to revision," and he indicated when informed of the house action on the lending bill that the entire Rep. Eugene E. Cox, D., Ga., said the action "spells quick adjournment." ad-journment." "It means," he added, "that the housing bill is definitely out." Other prominent members predicted pre-dicted adjournment by Saturday Satur-day or before. One, who refused to be quoted, paid the vote endangered even the social security act amendments, amend-ments, which at present are tied up in conference between senate-and senate-and house. The senate passed its drastically-reduced bill shortly after 6 o'clock last night. The vote, -52 to 28, came after five days, including in-cluding four night sessions of debate de-bate on a bill that was but a shadow of the original program proposed by Mr. Roosevelt. In effect, it was little more than a farm-aid measure, allocations for railroads, highways and foreign for-eign loans having been eliminated. elimin-ated. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 ('Pt Five of the six Senators from the intermountain states of Idaho, Utah and Montana voted for passage pas-sage of the drastically reduced lending bill Monday night. They were Thomas, Utah; Clark and Borah, Idaho; and Wheeler and Murray, Montana. King, Utah, was not listed among those voting. |