Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29
$25,O)O,OIO RELIEF
BILL IS REJECTED
IN LOWER HOUSE:
Appropriations Committee
Votes, 18 to II, to Disap-
prove Senate Proposal.
PAYNE SHARPLY DENIES
RED CROSS IN POLITICS
Plans Continue in Senate fol-
Agency to Administer
Refused Fund.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House Appropriations Committee
today voted to disapprove the Senate
425,Ooo,ooo Red Cross proposal for relief
The vote was 18 to IL.
Representative Cramton, Republican
Michigan, in charge of the bill, said thu
measure would be reported to the House
disagreeing with all of the Senate
amendment to the Interior Department
supply bill.
The committee also rejected by TIT
same vote the proposal by Representa-
that the fund be made available to an
other Government agency to be desig'
mated by President Hoover.
As the argument in Congress con-
tinued, Chairman John Barton Payne
of the Red Cross issued a statement
emphatically denying the charge made
in the Senate yesterday that his or
ganization was playing politics"
Payne asserted his organization was
not in position to administer the
fund.
Friends Will Not Be Deceived.
mo thoughtful member or friend Of
the Red Cross will be deceived by the
charge made in the Senate that in
refusing to administer SOS, 100000
general relief fund the Red Cross is
playing politics." he said.
Payne said the welfare of the Red
Cross required that lit continue its
historic voluntary role and refuse to
be drawn into politics" Payne said the
actual work had been done through
local Red Cross chapters, adding that
neighbors and friends of the sufferers
in their home localities had extended
the actual relief and determine the
amount and character of the ration
TO be given.
1.-THE bill under discussion is a gen.
eral relief bill and not a drought bill,
he said.
Relief Agencies Active.
It would require, he declared, thai
the money be expended anywhere with
Ia the United States. He said unem-
ployment relief was being given by
splendid relief agencies in the cities
such as the Salvation Army, the great
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant chart
table organizations. Red Cross officials
Eaid today it was feeding 1882 more
people In the drought area than yes
eeEday, raising the total to 701, 500, add
aEg that 44,2O7, 94l had been raised Of
he $10,OO0.00 fund.
The House committee action was
Raken after q heated executive session
The Byrns proposal would have pro-
Wided that If the Red Cross declined to
distribute the money appropriated, the
President would have been empowered
immediately to designate some govern
mental agency to make the distribution
for the relief of humans.
Should the House fail to give unani-
nous consent to send the measure To
conference 1t will be necessary to pro-
vide special legislative status and a vote
will be had on the Red Cross proposal
This means that there may be several
days Of delay.
Senate Continues Plans.
Plans continued in the Senate. how
ever, for some other relief agency to
administer the fund that the Red Cross
has refused.
Democratic Leader Robinson said he
was considering proposals to ask the
Salvation Army, the Public Health
Service or some agency to administer il
If the Red Cross stands by its refusal
Robinson to Meet OnlciaIs.
Robinson was to confer today with
officials of the Salvation Army with a
view to arranging for them to dis
tribute relief funds from the Federal
Treasury.
He also was considering a return to
the original plan of making food loans
through a Federal agency.
Senator Caraway said he was inclined
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