Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
CONGRESS PASSES
S311,Q()D,0)D RELIEF
AND TAKES RECESS
Session Ends After Midnight
as Senate Yields on
Emergency Measures.
$116,00o,oOO WORK BILL
GETS QUICK APPROVAL
$45,o00,o00 for Drought Loans
and $15o,oOO,ooo for Farm
Board Voted.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Clocks were at 1905 am. today as
Congress quit for the holidays after
voting $311 100000 in emergency re-
lief as its Christmas gift to the Nation.
The recess will be over on January 5.
It was a snarling. strife-torn Senate.
however, that yielded long enough to
permit enactment of the emergency
legislation, and the anxious leadership
looked ahead with misgivings last night
to the prospect of finishing the regular
business before March 4.
The Senate began its session at IL
o'clock in the morning, and at IL o'clock
at night debate on the Farm Board ap-
preparation was at high pitch. House
members, their work long since finished,
looked at the clock, told stories and
yawned as they waited.
Cooperation All But Buried.
The heralded Republication
cooperation movement to speed legisla-
ton and to avoid an extra session OF
Congress in the Spring was all but
into both parties.
None of the regular appropriation
bills carrying the funds to meet the
Governments expenses during the next
year got through the Senate for final
enactment-and these must be disposed
of before March If the extra session Is
to be avoided.
Beginning with apparent cordiality
toward the President, the mood of many
Senators changed quickly after he is
sued a statement that "the Senate was
playing politics at the expense OF hui
man misery.
The Senate had passed a drought re-
lief pill for 100000 900, instead of the
lower figure wanted by the administra-
ton and amendment to the $116,000,-
900 for immediate use on public i'm
provements had not been to Mr..
Hoover's liking.
Work Accomplished.
In addition, bills carrying authorize
tions Of hundreds of millions beyond
the program outlined had been intro
duced. Hardly 9 day passed after the
criticized and assailed on the Senate
floor, Western progressives joining
Democrats In the attacks.
The substance Of the accomplish
ments for the first three weeks Of this
session-ard most of 1t was enacted to-
day in the closing hours Of the Senate
Passed $4,000, 900 appropriation
for immediate use in public improve
ments.
Passed authorization of $45,00o,o0o
for loans to drought-stricken farmers
to put in next years crops.
Passed additional appropriation of
$3.50, 1000, 900 for Farm Board, giving 1t
a total of $400. 000, 600 of the $500 ,000,-
900 fund at its disposal.
Confirmed nominations of flve ap-
pointees to the reorganized Power Com
mission.
Hoover Signs Bill.
President Hoover late yesterday signed
the bill putting $4,000, 900 Immediately
at his disposal for new jobs on Fed
eral improvements throughout the
Nation.
This emergency measure got through
Congress early in the afternoon and
together with the measure authorizing
$45 200 900 for loans to drought-stricken
farmers to put in next years crops was
promptly signed
The $45. 0OO, 900 must still be appro-
priated. This will be done Immediately
after the holidays and meanwhile ar
rangements will be perfected for get
ting the loans TO the farmers.
The $116,000.000 Is available at once
and will be put into immediate use. In
his recommendations and in his public
statements cc.:"erning them, the Presi-
dent has emphasized that work can
begin Immediately.
Technical Phases Complete.
All the technical phases such as OBJ
tanning sites, architectural planning and
engineering have been completed on all
the projects included under the recon-
mendations. Mr.. Hoover has said actual
employment under the bill can start
in most cases within from one to three
months.
The bill, in addition to allowing
actual labor to start on buildings and
other projects. will provide labor in
various industries, such as steel. brick
Quarrying and in machinery manufac-
turing, which will supply materials.
The legislation completed the emer-
gency program recommended by Presi-
dent Hoover. but as the Senate gave
final approval TO the $1l6,000,0 900 il
heard new appeal for additional
relief.
Senators La Toilette, Republican
Wisconsin, and Walsh. Democrat, Mas
sachusettS, asSailed the appropriation
as a drop in the bucket" They read
reports from an independent survey o.
employment conditions in more thai
200 cities conducted by themselves and
demanded that Congress enact direct
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