The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-14
Playing In Hoover
 Yard About Relief
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Some senators assert the Red Cross joined with MT Hoover to min- imize the extent of rural distress. Wheeler and Thomas complain it is refusing to use vast available re- sources at it's command for relief purposes.
 The insurgent republican-demo- cratic coalition which out-voted the administration on power last week and was in turn out-voted on the tariff commission yesterday, may be functioning again in this dispute over the appropriation of federal funds for human food. The house says no funds shall be appropriated for this purpose, the senate wants a $15.00O,000 food loan amendment added to the original $45,000,000 re- lief bill.
 The Red Cross itself has just de- scribed the drought problem as the greatest peace-time emergency" the organization ever has been called upon to face.
 Chairman John Barton Payne fore- casts it will exceed the proportions of relief required by the Mississippi cared for 325, ,000 persons in refugee camps. Drought assistance already has been given 405,0O0 by the Red Cross. Seventeen states are affect ed.
 Payne told the senate appropri- ations committee last week the $4,- 500,000 relief fund on hand was ad- equate for the present. Increasing calls for assistance, he said, in a Red Cross statement to-day, "indi- cate the peak is not yet in sight, The statement was in explanation of President Hoover's call for a $10,000,000 popular subscription to the Red Cross.
 This call for contributions may serve to lessen somewhat the sen- ate's insistence on the food loan amendment. Its effect was evident in the house yesterday.
 The relief problem was returned to the senate yesterday by 215- 134 vote of the house, which SUD- ported Mir Hoover's opposition to federal appropriatoins for human food. This majority of 81 was at- tributed to most observers to the presidents weekend call for the special Red Cross drive.
 House conferees were unable la- ter in the day, however, to persuade representatives of the senate to ac- cept the formers rejection of the food provision. But refusal of the senate conferees to recede was a mere formaliity, as two of the three Senator Smooth. repn. Utah, and Senator Jones, repn, Wash, are op- posed to the food provision. They supported it in conference only with the intention of voting against it on the floor.
 Jones told the United Press he would submit the conference report to-day and expected it to take pre-. cedence over all other senate busi- ness. He said Majority Leader Wat. son agreed with him in the opinion it should precede consideration o1 the nomination of Eugene Meyer Jr, to be governor of the federal reserve board, and debate on 8 reso. lution authorizing appropriation oi S30,000,00O for modernization o1 three battleships. The senate has agreed by unanimous consent tc take up the battleships resolution to-day.
 The whole situation with respect to the relief program has changed since the senate surrendered before the holidays with scarcely any de. bate on the food provision. Minority Leader Robinson returned from his home in Arkansas expressing con. cern over conditions there. Many senators from drought states are re. ceiving great volumes of mail com.