PROCEDURE PROTEST
NEUTRALITY BILL LOWER HOUSE RIGHTS MR. FISH OVERRULED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 31, 2.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Disregarding the protest by Mr. T. Hamilton Fish, the Rules Committee adopted a procedure allowing the House of Representatives to discuss the repeal of the embargo on the sale of arms and implements of war on Tuesday. It is contended that the House will have full opportunity to amend the debate by means of instructions to their representatives at the joint conference of members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Mr. Fish told the Rules Committee and the Democratic leaders that the proposed House pdocedure on the Neutrality bill was the “most vicious gap we have ever had in Congress.”
He demanded that the House be permitted to amend the procedure, saying there was no disposition to stonewall, but he wanted some rule to nermit the House to decide its policy on three questions:—Firstly, the arms embargo; secondly, loans under the cash-and-carry provisions citing the belief that the same bill would permit loans to belligerents by the Reconstruction Finance Commission and the Exports and Import Bank —thirdly, Presidential powers to determine combat areas.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 1 November 1939, Page 11
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