The Indianapolis times., 1930-12-11
Raps Hoover
for Bread
Line Relief
Wagner Makes Plea to
Rush Permanent Jobs
Program.
By United Press


WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.--A plea
for permanent unemployment
measures and criticism of bread
line relief" which he said was
forced by administration delay, was
voiced in the senate today by SEN
ator Robert F. Wagner Dem,
N. ".
II am not opposed to emergency
proposals now pending" Wagner
said. But I plead for a better way
in the future. A place on the bread
line is, after all, an unkind reward
for workmen."
Wagner deplored the need of
New York's $6,O00000 bread line
fund and characterized the admin
istration's $110,00o,000 road and
public works bill as insufficient and
the result of delay.
Thus he injected into the short
session a demand for consideration
of his three unemployment bills,
now In the house.
CriticiseS President
Wagner criticised President Hoo
yer and his leaders were charged
with holding up his employment
program in the house.
"These bills have almost reached
the end of their legislative journey, -
Wagner said, ''but now the Presi-
dent, in his annual message, bids
us wait.
"Our people do not want charity.
They want an opportunity to earn
fair living. They expect us to
time the flow of jobs even as Joseph
in ancient Egypt timed the flow of
flood.
"We rightly expect of the gov
ernment to organize the effort of
job finding and to eliminate the
cruel waste of men and money that
Is now a regular part of it.
A fight over the world court devel-
oped today with the prospect that
the project of American adherence,
thrust into the senate Wednesday
by President Hoover, would shatter
party lines and possibly destroy ad-
ministration plans for the short
session.
Oppose Court Idea
First opposition to the court idea
came from Republican, Senator
Johnson (Cal.)
Johnson, with Chairman sBorah
OF tho SoraSnrx, roIo tio,1c nC,,, nj iffoo
Republican Floor Leader Watson
and President Pro Tenn Moses of
the senate, will fight his party
chieftain on this issue.
When any defense of the Presi-
dent on the. world court is made in
the senate some Democrat, such as
Senator Swanson of Virginia, proba-
bly, will make it.
World court strategy is being for,
mulated now by both sides. Borah
will expedite committee action and
bring the project to the floor if he
can.
The court men probably will at
tempt to keep the issue in commit
tee - until congress meets year
from now. They believe they have
the votes to do it.
Dirge for Harmony
Unless the debate is postponed,
legislative machinery may not be
able to dispose of the essential ap-
preparation bills. An extra session
could not then be avoided.
Watson warned Mr.. Hoover OF
this danger of an extra session but
the President submitted the court
project over the protest.
The formula for American adher-
ence to the world court was
worked out by Elihu Root, former
secretary of state, who sought to
bridge the conflicting opinions OF
the senate and the courts members.
He was assigned this mission by
President Hoover.
Defiant Democrats have buried
with a dirge all thought of harmony
with President Hoover, and are
accompanying their onslaught on
the administration relief program
with attacks on the President which
are without precedent in recent
years.
Headed by Democratic colleagues,
the metropolitan press, and finally
by Mr.. Hoover's sharply critical
statement on emergency relief, Mi
nority Leader Robinson publicly has
discarded the harmony or co-opera-
ton role
Robinson read himself out Of all
bipartisan responsibility in a
speech of firmly measured modera-
ton designed as rebuke to the
President.