U.S. FOREIGN AID BILL

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 13

U.S. FOREIGN AID BILL

Senate Agrees To Increase

(Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON. August 27. The United States Senate today voted to restore 500.9 m dollar, of the 809.65 m dollars cut by the House of Representatives from President Eisenhower's foreign aid bill. The measure will now go to a House of Representatives Senate conference committee, which must reconcile the Senate version with the 2,524.66 m dollars of new money voted by the House. Congressional Republican lead, ers reported after a White House conference that President Eisenhower was “well satisfied" with the Senate total; but the Senate Republican Leader (Senator William Knowland) advised him that the conference committee probably would trim it The Senate passage came after Democratic and Republican leaders joined in urging support of the entire 500.9 m dollars increase which the Senate Appropriations Committee recom-

mended over the House programme.

The key test came on a proposal calling for approval of the committee's action in ordering a 225 m-dollar increase in funds tor military aid to allies of the United States. The committee's action was upheld by 59 to 28. Opposition Senator Allen Ellender (Democrat, Louisiana) led the fight to kill the increase. He argued in vain that the House had voted enough money, and that many nations were just as able to look cut for themselves as “poor bld Uncle Sam."

Senators fighting the Ellender move said the Syrian situation add the Soviet Union's announcement that it had successfully tested an inter-continentaj - ballistic missile showed that the present was no time to cut programmes “to deal with the Communist threat” After their resounding defeat on this test critics of the foreign aid programing abandoned furher efforts to cut the bill. The drive to cut aid appropriations now moves to the HouseSenate conference committee. Mr Otto Passman (Democrat. Louisiana). chairman of the House Foreign Aid Appropriations Subcommittee. predicted that the House would refuse to unction the increase approved by ths Senate.