Show THEA N law r sf another administration defeat this time on the middle income homing housing measure marked congressional action when the senate passed a housing bill i a 2246 after striking out the administration supported provision for a billion dollar insurance feature to build cooperative housing the amendment to eliminate this feature was presented present ed by sen john W bricker R ohio generally conceded to be the spokesman for the national association otreal of real estate boards of which herbert U nelson is th the e registered lobbyist at an annual salary of the vote on eliminating the cooperative housing feature was 43 to 38 the bill as w passed however carries ap appropriations of two billion d dollars ar for mortgage insurance on home repair and construction st tru cUon million for multi unit loans million sw housing at educational institutions and million for loans to certain veterans the senate however passed another administration backed measure without debate which increases the guaranteed de deposits in all banks from to and provides for insurance by the federal deposit s insurance corporation which would reduce the insurance rate for member banks A measure much debated in the congress as a republican measure has again come up in this session as a damoc democratic ra tic mea measure 3 ure sponsored by multi mill 0 oil oll sen robert S kerr of oklahoma and his colleague who is up for election reelection re sen elmer ewer thomas of oklahoma the measure would take regulation of so called independent oil and gas production and distribution from the federal power commission objective of the measure would ultimately increase the price of natural gas and would mean the addition of millions of dollars to the annual natural gas bill of millions of users sen paul H douglas of illinois in opposing the measure cited a supreme court decision which said we have no doubt that th the sales of natural gas ace am i in interstate commerce sen james P kem kein R mo also opposing fhe the measure said the court decision seems to me to be a plain decision senator X kerr maintains that the independent producer does business within state lines and has no control over where the gas m might ight go to therefore he s said ald the provisions of the act do not apply to him some measure of agreement was reached on the cotton potato bill when the house approved a compromise worked out in a joint house senate conference which split the difference between figures in the original house and senate cotton acreage liberalization allotment measures As now constituted the measure provides the allotment to a farmer shall not be less than 65 per cent of the average acreage planted to cotton in 1946 1947 and 1948 nor less than 45 per cent of the amount planted in any one of those three years other provisions agreed to include le remove ove potato price I 1 Ili un for next year unless rigid controls are agreed to tol this wag was in the senate bill I 1 withhold price supports this year from low grade potatoes this ii Is a new feature which was in neither senate nor house bill and pay transportation of potatoes to be given free to charitable institutions the house has defeated a bill which would have authorized a million dollar incentive payment I 1 program to spur the exploration plora pon consert conservation fur ion and development of the nations stra metals and minerals the I 1 vote was to 1113 during the war such a program was in ef feet and as in the case of most wartime w a r t I 1 in e projects recipients nought sought continuation of the subsidy the measure had passed the senate principal support came from western representatives who claimed the country Is depending upon a dying ini austry for stockpiling of raw materials vital to the national security some action was finally taken in the house in a long sought move to by pass a decision of the supreme me court coura on the so called basi basing n g p point 0 int question |