The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-26
NEWS REv!EM " Of
CURRENT EVENTS
President and Senate in a
Wordy Warfare; Relief
Measures Passed.
By EDWARD w. PIcKARD

DRESIDENT HOOVER and the
senate, or part of that nominal
ly august body, came to verbal
blows over legislation. The Chief
Executive, who seemingly doesn't
feel so restrained now that the
election is over, was veXed because
of the introduction of measures
which would impose an expendi-
ture far beyond the sum he had
recommended. land mostly under
the guise of giving relief of some
kind or another" as he said TO the
White House correspondents. He
directly accused some members of
congress of playing politics at the
expense of human misery"
The President obviously referred
to the proposal for immediate pay
ment in cash of the soldiers bonus
and the Shipstead plan, a $5O0,OO0,-
600 bond issue for river and harbor
work His statement also was re-
garded as directed at Senator
David !. Walsh of Massachusetts,
who had criticized Nj. Hoover for
the inadequacy of his relief pro-
gram.
When this statement reached the
senate the war broke out tiercely,
and the President was bitterly at
tackled by Senators Robinson, Cara
way, Glass, Harrison and other
Democrats. Next day in pre-
pared speech Senator McKellar of
Tennessee scathingly assailed MIR.
Hoover for what he called his
TRADE of abuse and declared the
President owed an apology to every
member of the senate. His reputa-
ton and his sincerity were i'm
pugned.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania
alone came TO Mr.. HoOver's de-
fense, and he showed little enthu-
siasm in his task.
The senate on Tuesday passed,
without a record vote, the drought
relief loan fund bill amended to
appropriate $60,000,000. which is
more than twice what the admin
istration considered necessary and
which in that form provided not
only for seed purchase loans but
also for loans for the purchase of
food for distressed farmers. To this
latter feature Secretary of Agri-
culture Hyde had objected on the
ground that il was "perilOusly near
the dole system" and this ELECTED
cauStic comments from the anti
administration senators.
WITHOUT opposition the house
wv passed the bill appropriating
S1I0,OOO,00O for an emergency pub
lie construction fund, which is the
administrations chief step in the
relief of unemployment. 1t had
been revised to meet the objections
of the Democrats. who opposed the
granting of blanket authority to
the President in the expenditure of
the fund. so that he could only
transfer funds from one of the
specified purposes to another. The
senate removed even this authority.
added SS,000,000 to the total, and
passed the bill. OF the total, $780,
100000 is for advances to the states
for federal aid highway projects
and is TO be paid back within five
years by deductions from federal
contributions. Rivers and harbors
gets 500, 100000.
MIR. HOOVER transmitted to the
lN1 house of representatives a
formal request for the immediate
appropriation of another $15O,0O0,-
600 to the federal farm board from
it's $5O0,OO0.O00 revolving fund.
The money is needed, he said, lin
order that important operations of
the board, now in prospect, may be
carried through promptly" and it
was understood this meant further
Outlays for the stabiliZation of
wheat prices.
COME leaders in congress, both
~ Republicans and Democrats, ex-
pressed a fear that the submission
of the World court protocols to
the senate would result in legis-
lative jam that might make neces-
sary the calling of an extra session
of the new congress in the spring.
In his message transmitting the
protocols the President asked for
early consideration of the question.
He said that the protocols as re-
yiSed free us from any entangle-
ment in the diplomacy of other ma