Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
ROOSEVELT RELIEF
PLAN WINS CHEERS
Governor Speaks Hour at SEES
sion, Urging $40, 900, 900
by Tax Raise.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, August 29.-Gov. Franklin
d. Roosevelt, who is regarded as q
possible presidential candidate in 1892
yesterday wrote prescription for New
York State unemployment involving a
$40, 100000 appropriation to be raised
by increased income taxes.
Breaking precedent, the Governor
appeared before the Legislature, in the
gallery Of which sat his wife, and spoke
vigorously for an hour, urging the
passage Of a six-point program he had
spent weeks In drawing up. When he
concluded an ovation was given him
by the legislators.
He declared that It was idle to spec
ulate on what the Federal Govern
ment might do: that New York State
must not wait for Washington to come
through with a definite constructive
program.
Six Points In Plan.
The plan he advanced, which will be
considered by the Legislature next week
or the week following, provides:
1. Appropriation Of $40, ZOO, 900 to be
distributed for relief work among the
municipalities and counties Of the
State and to be spent wherever pos
sible for the employment Of men dur
ing the Winter on public works.
2. An increase of so per cent in all
sac. 900, 900, the increase to be retro
active so it may be collected on tax
reports already filed for 1880.
3. Creation of an emergency relief
board of three members appointed by
the Governor to administer the fund.
4. Allotment Of $548.000 Of the 500
600, 900 for the payment of State
bonuses to ex-Service men who have
never collected the money voted to
them in 1924.
S. A five-day week for men engaged
on State and municipal public works.
s. Authorization for the issuance by
cities and counties Of three-year bonds
to raise money to be spent on the
have lived in the State for at least
two years.
No Waiting for Possibilities.
at is idle to speculate on actions the
Federal Government may take" the
Governor said 1T is true times NAV
get better. 1t is true the Federal Gov
eminent may eradicate some Of the
causes, Of our present trouble. It is
true the rSoeraI Government may come
forward with a definite constructive
program. And it is true IT may start
the wheel of industry, but the State of
New York cannot wait for that. The
time for platitudes has passed. It is
time now for action"
The action he sought was not Inn
mediately forthcoming. for the Legts-
lature recessed soon after he concluded
until Monday. Before 1t did, however
AsSemblyman Irwin SteinglIt, Demo
cratic leader of the Assembly. intro
duced bills based on the GOVERNOR
proposal and declared:
Party lines at time like this should
be forgotten"
Senator George Feraon, Republican
leader from Syracuse, met this declara-
ton with q call to his party: Lets
keep politics out Of this He said the
majority agreed with the "funda-
mentals" Of the relief proposal, particu-
larry the plan TO raise the money by In
creased income taxes.
Louis Cuvillier, Democrat, from New
York City filed q bill to memorialize
Congress to legalize the manufacture 81
beer and wine as solution of the ag-
ricultural problem and an aid to the
relief Of unemployment
The Governor, in his message to the
Legislature, estimated that between
500, 900 and 10000 were In need in
New York last Winter and that the
number probably would be twice as
large this Winter