225. Editorial Note

On August 22, the Senate adopted Senate Appropriations Committee amendments restoring $440 million to the Mutual Security appropriations legislation, H.R. 13192.

The Senate adopted H.R. 13192 the following day. House and Senate conferees then reported a compromise version of the bill which reduced the Senate figure $220 million, $652 million less than President Eisenhower had originally requested. (H. Rept. 2704, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, August 23) The House agreed to the conference report by voice vote August 23, the Senate early August 24. H.R. 13192 thus became P.L. 85–853, the Mutual Security Appropriations Act, 1959, which provided $3.3 billion for the Mutual Security Program in fiscal year 1959. Eisenhower signed P.L. 85–853 on August 28. For text, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pages 1591–1594.