Imperial Valley Press

Solon Approval of Ruml Plan Defeat To Administration

Republicans Predict That Plan Will Be Passed By House Without Parley

WASHINGTON, May 15. (UP)--House Republican leaders predicted today that the senate-approved Ruml plan for total forgiveness of 1942 taxes would be adopted by the house without resort to a compromise senate-house conference.

Democratic Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts said that the bill probably would not be brought up in the house until Tuesday. That appeared to be satisfactory to Republicans who have called a meeting of their leaders Monday to map parliamentary strategy.

MAJOR DEFEAT

The senate vote last night--49 to 30 for the Ruml plan--was a major defeat for the administration. It had sought to rally full Democratic support for a 75 per cent forgiveness plan by Finance Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., but 18 Democrats joined 31 Republicans in support of the Ruml proposal.

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Democrats deserted the party and voted with 31 Republicans for 100 per cent forgiveness.

The administration's chance to defeat the Ruml plan will come when the house is asked next week to concur in the changes made in the bill by the senate. The bill left the house in the form of the Robertson-Forand plan providing for only 75 per cent forgiveness.

GATHER SUPPORTERS

Republicans will try to whip all possible supporters into line to avoid sending the bill to a senate-house conference from which they fear would emerge another compromise bill. Their prediction of getting house concurrence on the senate version was based somewhat on a major defection in the ranks of Republicans. Rep. Fred L. Crawford, R., Mich., who on previous house votes has opposed the Ruml plan, said after the senate vote that he would support total forgiveness of a year's income taxes rather than compromise for 75 per cent or some other partial forgiveness figure.