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Show POSTAL PAY BILL PA5SEDHY HOUSE TWO -THIRDS MAJORITY REQUIREMENT RE-QUIREMENT IS MET AFTER SHORT DEBATE Kelley Measure Substitutes for Senate Proposal; Provides for Same Payment in Vetoed Act Washington. The Kelly postal pay and rate increase bill has been passed by the house and sent to the senate. The first vote came on a proposal to proceed toward a final vote with debate limited. It was carried, 215 to 97, and leaders said this indicated that friends of the measure would muster the two-thirds majority need ed for passage. The bill was approved after less than two hours debate under rules requiring a two-thirds vote for passage pas-sage and barring amendments from the floor. ' Final action was without a roll-call, roll-call, Speaker Gillett holding that on the viva voce vote more than two-thirds two-thirds of the house members present supported the bill. Representative Ramseyer, Republican Republi-can of Iowa, who filed a minority report re-port on the measure, told the house he was opposed to a revision of the rates on tourth class matter by congress con-gress and favored leaving to some nonpolitical export body solution of second-class rates. Carrying the same pay increase as provided in the bill vetoed by President Pres-ident Coolidge, the measure proposes rate advances estimated to yield $61,-000,000, $61,-000,000, as against an expected increased in-creased outgo of $68,000,000 in salaries. sal-aries. it is a substitute for the measure passed recently by the senate, which the house declined to consider on the ground that it infringed on the house's exclusive right to initiate revenue rev-enue legislation. Before the vote Representative Kelly (Rep.), Pennsylvania, whose name the measure bears, told the house he believed that the bill would be approved by the president after it was harmonized by house and senate sen-ate conferees. Ninety-seven members had voted against bringing the bill up for passage pas-sage under the rule which was adopted. adopt-ed. Last year the house voted 361 to 6 in favor of the postal pay increase in-crease bill vetoed by President Coolidge. Cool-idge. Opponents of the parliamentary arrangement declared the house was being "gagged" and its rights infringed in-fringed on. The bill's advocates countered with the assertion that Its provisions had been carefully worked out, and this was the only method of bringing the measure to a vote at this session. |