Evening star., 1930-12-09
6DM|LL|ONS VOTED
ASFARM DROUGHT
RELIEF BY SENATE
Republicans Ignore Presi-
dents Recommendation
Favoring $25, 900, 900.
HOOVER SAYS TREASURY
RAIDS NOT JOBLESS AID
Charges Members Of Congress Are
Playing Politics at Expense
of Human Misery.

Shortly after President Hoover had
attacked certain emergency relief meas
ures In congress and declared that
prosperity could not be restored by
raid on the Treasury, the Senate this
afternoon passed the bill authorizing
S60,0O0,00O for relief to drought-strick-
On farmers.
The measure was approved without
b record vote after Democrats had Bit
terly assailed the contention of the ad-
ministration that funds should not be
loaned to farmers for purchase of per-
eonal food.
McNary Sponsors Bill.
Republicans made no effort to cut
down the $50, ,0O0, 900 to the $25, ,000, 900
recommended by President Hoover.
Senator McNary of Oregon, the assist
ant Republican leader, sponsored the
bill with its 60,000,000 sum.
The bill authorizes the Secretary Of
Agriculture to make advances or loans
TO farmers in the drought stricken
areas for the purchase of tcod, seed of
suitable crops, fertilizers, feeds for live
stock and fuel and oil for tractors"
The measure now goes to the House,
where the Agriculture Committee has
reported a bill for $50, 900 900.
The administrations opposition to
the loans was condemned by Senator
Robinson OF Arkansas, the Democratic
leader.
The Democratic leader joined with
McNary In asserting that the figure
carried by the bill was suggested by the
Presidents Drought Relief Commission.
As for the authority in the bill for
loans to farmers to purchase food for
the family, as well as food for live stock,
McNary said it was a departure from
precedent, but he believed not more
than / per cent of the $50 ,0O0, 900 would
be loaned for this purpose.
THE committee believed that dis
tress in the nome was just as much a
subject for relief as distress in the
fields" he added. With that brief
declaration he dismissed the urgent
appeal voiced last night by Secretary
Hyde against loans for the purchase
Of food.
Robinson Attacks Hyde Stand.
Senator Robinson led some of his
fellow Democrats in an attack on
Hyde's position, recalling an appropria-
ton of $20, ,000, 900 made in 1921 to send
food to starving women and children
In Russia, who neither owe nor rec
ognize allegiance to this nag"
Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia,
read 1919 measure passed at the re-
quest Of Herbert Hoover when he was
food administrator appropriating $780,
600. 900 for food to feed the Starving
In Russia and contiguous nations"
YES" shouted Robinson, "he felt
there was a right to 60 into the Treas
ury TO feed those In distress in foreign
lands, but for some mysterious, mex
plicable reason 1t Is now wrong TO give
our own citizens relief from funds
which they themselves have con-
tributed"
The people don't want charity"
Robinson continued. They want an
opportunity to work 1t Is all right to
put mule on the dole but 1t requires
condemnation, I see. to put man on
parity with the mule"
Referring again to Hyde's statement,
Senator Robinson said: IF 1t originated
from any less reputable source l would
characterize it as silly"
Democratic Senators Caraway Of Ar
kansas, Barkley of Kentucky and Hefiin
Of Alabama told the Senate their States
needed $4,000 900, $40 0,00o, 900 and tl0,-
100000, respectively.
On the basis of these statements SEN
otor La Toilette, Republican, Wisconsin,
said that these three States would ab-
oorb $32 ,0OO,OOO OF the total $50 900 ,OOO
In his criticism this morning, Mr..
Hoover stated that thus far measures
have been introduced which would i'm
pose expenditures on the Government
that would aggregate $4,500 100000 more
than what he has asked for in his
emergency relief program.
People viii Not Be MisIed.
Describing these congressional activ-
tties as playing politics at the expense
OF human misery and without regard
for the taxpayers money, President
Hoover expressed the feeling that the
American people will not be misled by
such tactics. He stated that these
raids upon the treasury are being made
under the guise of relief for the unem-
ployment situation.
he added also that many Of these
measures are being promoted by out
side organizations and agencies and are
being forced upon members Of Congress.
He declared that some of these agencies
are engaged in promoting political
turpitude.
Il observe" Mr.. Hoover said In his
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