The Archive · 1940

House Committee Limits Debate on Conscription

Agreement Now Being Sought te Ensure Passage of Bill for Presidential Signature by Next Week

Washington, Aug. 31. TE House of Representatives Rules Committee voted yesterday to limit debate on the broadened Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill to two days, beginning next Tuesday.

The bill already has been passed by the House in its original form, and agreement now is being sought to amendments made by the Senate before the bill passed in that branch of the legislature this week.

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