Evening star., 1930-12-14
PRESIDENT PRODS
. c. O.P. SENATORS|N
|. CO-OPERAT|ONROW
Will Take Issue to Nation II
Failure to Defend Him
Is Continued.
SCORES VICTORY OVER
RELIEF FUND CONTROL
But Submission to Such Moves as
La Toilette Resolution Likely
to Widen Breach.

President Hoover and Republican
Senate leaders were reported deadlocked
last night over party responsibility as
the second week of the short session of
Congress closed. The President scored
during the day when Senate conferees
informally agreed to his controlling the
proposed emergency construction fund.
But the broad question of co-opera-
ton between the President and his
party leaders in the Senate remained
unsettled. with Mr.. Hoover threatening
to take his case to the country at the
first provocation.
The first test was expected To come
on the La Toilette resolution declaring
the Senate determined ito put human
suffering in this emergency over the
consideration of wealthy taxpayers. !"
The resolution as offered by Senator
Robert M. La Toilette, Wisconsin. Re-
publican insurgent, was considered a d.
rect slap at the President.
yesterday that Republican Senate lead.
erS expected the resolution to pass after
some modihcation tentatively agreed
upon earlier in the day. It resulted Ia
nouce IN unmistakable terms that Mr.
hooVer would make an issue" of the
matter before the Nation if a resoIus
lion misrepresenting his position were
petmitted to pass without Republican
Let Criticism Pass.
tnat the President last week had stood
undefended by members of his oun
party in the face Of the worst Denno-
cratic Senate criticism he has vet er1-
countered and that his relief proQrarn
nad been over-ridden in the senafa
with Republicans offering no voting
In the eyes of high administration
omcials the issue presented by RepubN-
can senatorial failure to stand up for
gne administration, especially in relief
!eglsIatlon, was OF such transcendant
Importance as to make q mere inci-
dent Of the Senate conferees canitnIa.
tlon TO the President in the emergency
fund control.
1t has had the effect Of focusing at
tentlon ON the subjects wherein the
PRESIDENT and the Senate stand diga-
greed. They are principally these:
emergency construction fund. THE
PRESIDENT sought free hand. TO allo-
cate the money to relieve unen1ploy-
ment as changing conditions seemed
70 MN 10 warrant. The Senate, with
UuG republican dissent, stripped the
control.
Drought relief-The President Thought
$3O,OOO,OOO sufficient to insure cYops
next year in drought-stricken areas
ana recommended that cases Of individ-
usl distress be left to the Red Gross
Inc Senate passed measure. spon-
Sored by an administration Republican
senator Charles l.. McNary of Oregon
raising the amount to $50 0O0, 900, wfiicI
was to be loaned to farmers not onI
Tor iced, seed and other supplies, but
also Tor human food
Inc PRESIDENT recommended $50.
100000 for the emergency constrI,c.
tion fund. The House cut It down
with the administration approval. tc
$110,000,000. The Senate raised It tr
S1I6,OOO,OOO, and, in addition to tho
denial OF presidential control, inserted
q clause TO restrict Federal projects T.
scales. ""e
Bonus Issue Raised.
AT the same time, administration Re
pupllcanS were Offering such proposa]
as that OF Senator Arthur II. Vanden
oerg, Republican, of Michigan, to casI
soldiers adjusted compensation certifi
Gates at cost to the Treasury of abou
So,oUO,UOO,UUO tremendous agitation
Tor this proposal has developed. and tn,
President is anxious to hold II down
Mr.: Hoover was represented to be de-
termlned to hold out against the pro
vision Tor food for farmers, although
not particularly insiStent on cutting
ooWn the total Of the drought relief bill
from the $60,000,000 Senate figure. The
law would permit the administration TO
ulstrlpute so much of the $50. .OOO. GOO
as seemed necessary, and so the effect
would not be to take $4,000, 900 directly
out of the Treasury
With Mr.: Hoover depending ON the
these Senate measures which are ~
lecClonable to him, Nicholas Lonrworth
the Speaker, is confronted by a serious
TEST OF his power tomorrow. one of
tne alternative courses which he has
70 plock the human food provision re-
CURED two-thirds majority ana hjo
as as the present Republican majority is
Cnere Is serious doubt as to whether 4,
Is Dig enough, with such other aid &C
1llgnC De picked up, to produce the
necessary two-thirds. VA
Opposition Found Waning.
There. were indications meantime n,
gradual recession of the Opposition
% PRESIDENT Hoover's relief policies bI,f
= was py no means certain yet that thu
would succeed in nre.
lentlng extravagant legislation in IN
laMe OF emergency relief.
me INFORMAL agreement of Senate
On, on control of the emergency
,iL ing was one indication. A report last
'.a naSn' tnaC Republican Senate leaders
~ NJ e4pectIng Senator La Toilette To
~ thiinlaIe ,n tne offensive" preamble of
10 10 ttsooluLlon t was another sign. With
~ .tle preamble, many administration
ne resolution. Ts0a'
In fact great many of the less nor.
plcuouS Republican Senator'S have ~
onally assured President Hoover af
heir support, but have protested e.
ording to administration leaders t,st
ney have looked to Senator watson fcr
eaderShip. There are in the RepubIicSn
enator1al contingent many personaI
riends Of the President, men who krsw
I'm long before he went into President
Larding's cabinet.
Looking TO 1882.
In the Senate, 1t was pointed out YES.
,rday, the $4,000, 900 drought rsIief
III was bound to pass, regardless of
1ythtng the Republican leaders rnirht
" or do about 1t. That being the
lse. 1t was argued, there was no point
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