U.S. INFLATION MAY SPUR REPUBLICANS

Grey River Argus, 7 August 1948, Page 5

U.S. INFLATION MAY SPUR REPUBLICANS

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. The Southern filibuster in the. Senate against the Republican anti-poll tax bill ended to-day when the Republicans withdrew the bill in. a drive to push through limited anti-inflation and housing measures of their own and adjourn the special session by Saturday. The Republican anti-infla-tion bill ignores Mr Truman’s appeal for stand-by price control, rationing, and the allocation of authority. The Republican housing bill will, according to reports, be a watereddown version of the measures Mr Truman sought, but will contain no provision for public housing, which ranked high among Mr Truman’s requests. Meanwhile, the Republican’s have sworn that when Congress meets in 1949 they will fight tn outlaw tm busters by altering the Senate rules. The Southern Democrats who had held the floor for five days when the Republicans withdrew their anti-poll tax bill said they had not even begun to use their second wind.