Senator's Pay Should Equal That Of
Cabinet Member, Sen. Cain Declares
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29-(.
Senator Cain (RWashi Wednes
day demanded a $-5.000-a-year
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alary for tenaton and represen
tatives if this turn 1 voted for
President Truman's Cabinet
members.
The Washington senator told
the Senate he opposed any sal
ary increases for top-level gov
ernment officials at this time.
But if Congress does approve
the bill to increase executive sal
aries, he said, then the lawmak
ers should get as much money
as the Cabinet members.
Cabinet members now get $13,
000 yearlv. Members of Congres
receive $12,500 in salary and a
$2,500 tax-free allowance.
Cain offered an amendment to
the bill to boost the lawmakers'
pay to a flat $25,000 without the
taxfree expense money.
As the Senate began debate on
the measure. Senator Long (D
Lal argued that the pay Increase
is necessary to keep the best
qualified men working for the
government. He said that "enor
mous savings in efficiency"
would more than offset the addel
cost of the hill to taxpayers.
President Truman asked that
the salary of Cabinet members
be lifted to $25,000, but Senate
administration leaders have
agreed to accept a compromise
ot $22,500.
The pay bill also faced a threat
from a new economy move.
Senator Ferguson (RMich)
Trxirt., Sept. 29, 1 949 Tha Newt-Review, Rotcburg, Or. 9
Many Educators Oppose Power Of
VA To Reduce Rights Of Education
By DOUGLAS LARS EN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON ( NEA) The law under which Veterans Admin
istration now wields authority to cancel the GI educational bene
fits of approximately 4,500,000 veterans was slipped through Congress
at VA't urging with practically no public hearing and In the face of
the bitter opposition of the country's leading educators.
Under this act, as It Is being
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enforced bv VA. any vet who
started a course and stopped It,
or who has completed one phase
of a course, is virtually prohibit
ed from using any more of his
educational benefits. VA has the
final authority In determining
whether he can use the balance
of the benefits he has coming un
der the GI bill.
The act In question gives VA
final authority in prohibiting a
veteran to get training paid for
by the government which might
be "avocatlonal or recreational."
VA's method of enforcing that
seemingly innocuous law is what
has U. S. educators up In arms.
Actually, the law was put op
the books last year by the 80th
Congress. But VA only- used It
very sparingly last year. It was
passed In an Irregular manner.
Instead of going through the con
gressional veterans' committees,
with open hearings, It was includ
ed In the VA appropriations bill
after secret meetings at which
only VA officials appeared.
Vtt Groups Ignored
Then claiming that the 80th
Congress set a precedent by in
cluding the law In its appropria
tion act, VA this year persuaded
the Senate Independent Oflices
Appropriations subcommittee to
renew the restriction, and streng
then it. Again, the matter was
not referred to the congressional
veterans' committees, the logical
groups to process such a law.
Again, only the VA was permit
ted to state its side of the case
to the committee
The only time U. S. educators
got a say on the matter at all
was one morning when a special
Senate welfare committee invit
ed comment on a separate bill
which would have done about
the same thing as the provision
.that now exists In the appropria
tions act. Those who got there
in time to speak opposed the
measure, but this testimony was
ignored by the committee which
finally recommended the bill
for passage by the Senate.
Although the means by which
VA got its authority to curb GI
education and training was irre
gular, its announced reason for
wanting it was to save the tax
payers a lot of money. VA of
ficials told the appropriations
committee that if they were giv
en that law and an additional
$8,000,000 to enforce It properly,
it would net the government a
saving of more than $100,000,000.
They got the law and $7,000,000.
Rights held Abused
Chief argument advanced by
the VA education officials was
their suspicion that hundreds of
thousands of veterans were us
ing their GI rights to go to school
between jobs. At that time un
employment was Increasing and
the straight GI unemployment
benefit died, ending the S2-20
clubs.
In the bitter argument that has
developed between educators and
VA officials, VA goes back to
Intent of Congress:
'The legislative history of the
GI bill reveals that the under
lying spirit of the act is to help
a veteran, whose training was
Interrupted or prevented by the
war, to resume his training and
thereby attain the knowledge and
skill he might have achieved had
there been no war."
In reply, educators say that
the intent of Congress was made
clear in the law. The amount of
benefits each veteran is entitled
to and how long the benefits
through administrative action is
violating the spirit of the GI bill,
they claim.
brought the money saving Issue
up by offering, as an amendment
to an executive pay rise bill, a
proposal to direct Mr. Truman to
cut federal spending from 5 to 10
percent.
Traffic Mishaps Kill
Two Youths, Each 20
PORTLAND. Sept. 29. i.m
Two young men were killed In
separate traffic accidents in this
region early Wednesday.
Schwartz Povatea, 20, Tongue
Point sailor, was run over by a
car near Hlllsboio. State police
said the man turned suddenly
and walked Into the path of ah
oncoming car.
Donald Henry Allen, 20, Oak
Grove, was killed when his car
overturned near Scappoose. Two
passengers, who were not even
hurt, said Alien was blinded by
the light of another car and drove
into a ditch.
Two Teen-Aged Indians
Get 5 Years For Killings
PORTLAND, Sept. 29 (Pi
Two teen-age Klamath Indians
were sentenced to five years' im
prisonment on slaying charges
Tuesday.
Perry Choktoot, 17, pleaded
guilty to second degree murder
in the death of his half-brother,
Marx L. Brown, 20, In a hayfield
last July. Brown was shot dur
a quarrel.
Raymond Charles Smith. 19,
pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
He was accused of fatally stab
bing Elmo Lobert, 22. during a
beer party at Pine Ridge.
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