Washington, June 16.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday agreed to begin consideration June 21 of various proposals to amend and repeal important provisions of the Neutrality Act.
Senator Key Pittman, chairman and Democrat of Nevada, said the committee does not now plan to call on the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to testify. Most of the proposed changes in neutrality legislation were advanced by Mr. Hull two weeks ago.
Senator Pittman said Mr. Hull's appearance before the committee today would be merely to explain a proposed new treaty between the United States and Panama, Meanwhile, Senator Alben W.
Barkley, majority leader in the Senate, sought to draft a compromise neutrality programme to prevent a threatened filibuster in the House and to assure the adjournment of Congress by July 15.
A group of senators headed by Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican isolationist of North Dakota, has been seeking signatures to a "De. claration of Neutrality Principles," embodying isolationist arguments in opposition to Mr. Hull's proposals.
Although latest reports said the isolationists had obtained 26 signatures to the declaration, usually reliable sources said the actual number of signatures was much smaller. United Press,
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