The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-09
Senate BLOC
FIGHTS relief
COMPROMISE
No Specific Provision Made
for Purchase of Food
From Loans.
FEAR EXTRA SESSION
Administration Is Worried;
Robinson Placed in
Bad Position.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The $780,
100000 drought relief compromise
agreed on by the administration and
some senate leaders will come in for
serious attack today, when it is
placed before the latter body for
formal approval and translation into
law.
Although it is agreeable to
minority leaders Robinson Dem.,
Ark, about twenty Democrats and
ProgresSives will line up against it,
on the ground that it falls far short
Of relieving distress.
They will asSail it because it does
not permit specifically the use of
loans to buy food" and because it
provides no assistance for I'M
employed in the cities.
The revolt is likely to place Rob-
inson in a difficult position. More
over, if the rebels against the COM
promise care to, they may blast
hopes of avoiding an extra session.
Senate Republicans, with this in
mind, will meet this afternoon to
plan a program for passage of the
ten supply bills and other essential
legislation.
Worry Over Extra Session
Eoover's chief worry now is that
trouble may arise over this ques-
ton or over the cash bonus issue,
and he has urged his senate
spokesman to use every means pos
sible to escape an extra session.
In an effort to placate critics,
Secretary Hyde formally has out
lined the relief plan, as now
planned by the administration.
Writing to Representative Will
Wood (Rep., Ind0, chairman of the
house appropriations committee,
the secretary of agriculture ex-
planned that distress In the cities
must be cared for by local chart
table agencies and in rural districts
by the Red Cross.
The earlier $45,000,0O0 appropria-
ton will be advanced to buy seed,
feed and fertilizer. and the $780,
100000 for this and other purposes,
including human supplies. The
total Of $65,000,00O, loaned out on
security on crops, agricultural in
vestment, or other collateral, will
be regarded as a fund devoted to
placing stricken farmers on their
feet AGAIN
Insurgents Not Satisfied
This relief program does not sat-
isfy. Senators Glass (Dem., Va,
Wheeler Dem, Mont.), and La
Toilette Rep., Wis.,, who are the
chief critics of the Compromise
They do not see where Hyde's plan
provides any help to farmers who
have no security, no food, no seed,
and fertilizer for crops and no feed
for their livestock.
These senators brand as futile
their colleagues assertions that
Hoover and Hyde, who have held
out bitterly against food appropria-
tions even in the form of loans, so
will administer the act to make re-
lief available to farmers having no
collateral.
1t is expected, however, that GER
tain G. o. P senators will try to
meet this situation during debate
on the floor. Acceptance of next
years crops as a basis for advances
may furnish solution to this prob
lem.
In his letter, Hyde insisted that
the administration had not compro-
missed on the issue Of "dole,''
thereby arousing the suspicion of
the Glass Wheeler Toilette
group.
The Republicans also will point
to reports from Arkansas by Col.
Campbell B. Hodges, Hoovers mill
tary aid, that the Red Cross is
caring adequately for the needy in
the hardest-hit counties.