Show t Move to Restrict t I Help Loses By 1 45 Vote WASHINGTON Feb 6 UP UP- UP The house Thursday tentatively wrote into the administrations administration's British-aid British bill a provision that con congress congress' could terminate President President dent Roosevelt's Roose powers vets under the measure at any time by maJority maJority majority ma ma- approval of a resolution WAS WASHINGTON H I N G TON Feb 6 INS INS Administration Administration forces won the first major test of the leas lend lease en bill Thursday when the house rejected a s substitute m measure asure which h would merely have provided for in loans or gifts to nations battling the axis powers The vote was t to tb Taken by tellers it did not place the members members members mem- mem mem mem- bers on record as would a roll roIl call ballot Follow Party Lines The vote yote f followed party lines with m most st Democrats against the substitute most Republicans supporting sup sup- sup sup- porting orting it t. t The G GOP 0 P took another setback k ka a moment later when a proposal by byR Representative Maas R. R Minn to acc accept pt British western hemisphere hemi hemi- sphere poss possessions Jn In exchange lor for aid was ruled rifled d out oford of order L. L S Sponsored p o n s so 0 r red e d by fay Representative Mundi of South pak Dakota ta a Re Republican can member of the hoUse foreign affairs committee t tie e s substitute ut would have stripped the tle proposed law of the vast gr grants of ot pr side power provided in the adm adminis administrations administration's bill Further evidence of ot the solidity of the he administration front was given l later ter when the ho house se sere re- re PEACEFUL I U. U S. S COULD COULD EN END WAR VAR S SAYS YS ROMERO ROME RO ROME IE Feb 6 INS The TheMar war Mar ar in Europe would end in three weeks If the United States would cease the blood business in which it is 15 engaged the theRome theRome theRome Rome radio asserted Thursday night I by a 78 vote a a proposal by Representative Vorys R. R Ohio that the president be prohibited from sending war materials abroad broad unless the army's chief of staff and the navys navy's chief of operations of-operations certified that such materials were not essential to national defense With the Vorys amendment out of the road the chamber then approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved without a record vote the administrations administration's amendment requirIng requiring re re- requiring re- re quiring the president to consult with these two defense officers before before before be be- fore making any transfers By its action the house thus formally a adopted opted the first of six changes Inthe in inthe inthe the bill sponsored by Democratic members of the foreign affairs committee Raps Wide Power rog Mundi in pleading for Cor adoption of ot his proposal declared the administrations administration's administrations administration's ad ad- ministrations ministration's bill makes the president pres- pres ident of the United States the dl di- di E the V ll Ills HU wv wn bill he said would give the president no such powers and would not carry the country a single single sin sin- gle step n nearer war Making the administrations administration's ns n's reply to Representative Luther Lu ther Johnson of Texas ranking D Democrat on the foreign affairs committee said the substitute did not meet the serious situation in involved involved in- in and added that giving Britain Britain Brit Brit- Brit Brit- am ain credits and nothing more would be like giving a drowning man money to buy a life belt The triumph for the Roosevelt forces came only a few Cew hours after they had been forced to make further further fur fur- ther thor concessions to the opposition At a meeting of the Democratic members of ot the foreign affairs committee this morning the group voted to accept two more modify modify- ing lag amendments before beCore the bill is passed ah J sent to the senate The amendments provide for a congressional declaration against carrying goods to England in American ships and a time limit on the power of the president to I obligate the government on contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts for Cor which congress has not appropriated money The committee commItte r rejected th the so- so called compromise proposal of Rep Representative Wadsworth R. R N. N Y to put a ceiling on the measure Chairman Bloom D. D N. N Y of the committee announced that an- an on oil Page Fuze Four Foar Column Two HOUSE REJECTS AID CURB MOVE Continued Confined from P Peas Par r One On other session of the committee willbe will willbe be held tomorrow morning to consider consider consider con con- sider further amendments if U sary The action of the Democrats was wa Immediately hailed by Republicans Republica as a further dent in the administrations administration's Lions tion's strength Mi Minority Leader Leade Martin predicted they will have hav e to give In on a couple of more be fore tore night falls fails The opening battle wa was touched I off oft on the house floor when Representative R. R S. S D D. gained recognition from the speaker an and offered an amendment to pigeonhole pigeon hole the administrations administration's measure and substitute for it a bill simply limply authorizing the president to loan loal or ort or give outright l Jn In dollar credits to nations which this country wanted waned to aid It waon was wa wason on proposal that debate got under uner way The changes accepted Thursday brought the total revisions in the measure to an even half dozen The com committee itte last week adopted four amendments one amendments one ending th the e life hip of the law on June 30 1943 another declaring against convoys a third requiring reports to congress con cOQ gress and a il fourth amendment t calling upon the president to consult con con- suit sult with witt army anny and navy heads before granting aid under the bill Under the terms of t the e amend amend- amendment ment ending life Ufe of the measure June 30 1943 the president could still carry out without limit any contract made b before tore July 1 1943 The new amendment says ays he may carry out contracts only until JUlY 1 I 1946 |