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Show LONE DIRECTOR ACT House Rejects Plan to Establish Board of Five WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (0 The house decided today , to leave enforcement of the administration's wage-h our bill to a single administrator in the labor department, de-' de-' spite opponents' warnings it would give an "autocrat" dictatorial dic-tatorial powers over labor and industry. By a standing vote of 1st ta IT, It rejected an amendment by Representative Rep-resentative Ramepeck D, Ga.) which would hare restored a senate-approved prevision for aa in-l in-l dependent five-member board ta administer the propeeed law. Disposition of that point brought Bearer to realisation house leaders' goal of forcing tha measure ta a final vote tonight Vata Exemption During consideration' of many minor amendments, tha house voted 107 to So to exempt all persons am- ' ployed in preparing, packing at storing agricultural commodities In ths area in which they are produced. Representative Lucas (D, III.) offered of-fered the amendment making this ' exemption. On the other aide of the eapitol, the senate, after four weeks of talk on the ever-normal granary farm bill, debated a separate measure ' aubmlttsd by Senator McAdoa (D., Cel.). McAdoo'a proposal would require the secretary of agriculture to as-, as-, certain the market for farm commodities com-modities each year and the amount available for market The secretary then would fix a minimum price . for the domestic market Secretary Wallace has expresssd apposition to price fixing farm measures such as McAdoo'a, contending con-tending they might Interfere with the administration's reciprocal trade program. Before house debate on the wage bill was resumed, a house subcommittee subcom-mittee defeated a Republican substitute sub-stitute for the corporate profits tax. Chairman Vinson (D Ky.) announced an-nounced the vote was to S, along partisan lines. The plan defeated was submitted ' by Representative Crowther R., N. Y ). Vinson said It would have decreased de-creased federal revenues $416,000,000 had it been In effect this year. That development was coincident with action'by ths house rules committee com-mittee giving right-of-way ta the administration's housing MIL Ths measure will be considered as soon aa the house has voted en its wages and hours bill. Although both the farm and Wage bills are nearing final votes, administration chieftains virtually abandoned hope for their enactment enact-ment at the aped si session. They wanted, however, to get the bills off the floor so that they could try ta pass tha administration bousing bous-ing bill before Christmas. Chav Beaca Cerapcemleio During tha holiday recess, they said, joint eommitteee ef senators and representatives can work out compromises on the house and senate sen-ate versions of tba farm aad wags-hour wags-hour measures. A night session ef tha bouse was forecast if necessary, ta gst a final nrota on the wage-hour bill. Demo-Vratic Demo-Vratic Leader Rayburn hopes to kake up the housing bill tomorrow. |