The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-14
Senate IRE
Flares ANEW
over RELIEF
Refusal to Provide for
Human Food ASSaiIed
by CaraWay.
NEW TACTICS ADOPTED
Democrats VIII Permit
Drought Aid Bill to Pass,
but Keep Fighting.

b. JnHcd Pr,ss
WASHINGTON. Jan 14.-Dem
ocrats in the senate have decided
TO abandon their efforts to add 6
Sl5,000oo0 food loan provision to the
administration drought relief bill
Senator Carauay Of Arkansas tolc
the United Press today
They later will try to add the
disputed 100000 10 the deficiency
appropriation bill, Caraway said.
Senator Jones rep, Wash) pre-
sented TO the senate at noon the
conference report on the drought
appropriation and asked for its inn
mediate consideration.
CaraWay made an impassioned
plea for relief for hungry farm
families. He read accounts Of rag
ged children in The lower grades of
school lining up daily for soup,
and said these children in the soup
lines are just as human and just
as good as the grandchildren OF the
President at the White House who
lately enjoyed a Christmas tree.
Are we so hard hearted a ma
ton" he asked, that to save few
dollars Of taxes we are willing to
deprive millions Of Americans and
send many of them to their graves?"
Lashes at Hoover
President Hoover poses as a de-
fender Of children, and yet he re-
fuses to allow children in twenty
two states enough food to sustain
thei: lives
THE administration has no rea-
son to believe the picture of dis
tresS is overdrawn by the press and
from others who have no direct in
terest in this relief. A family OF
five gets Sc a month. They can't
live on that"
Caraway described the meager al
lowances for food as torture"
He attacked the project before
the senate to spend $3O,00O,o00 for
battleship modernization. and in
come tax refunds and attachments
totaling $126000,000, while people
are in need OF food and clothing.
Red Gross AsSailed
President Hoover is on the side Of
the house in the relief controversy
that has ragged for six weeks. The
Red Cross has been made party
in the impending battle.
Two Democratic senators, Wheel
er (Mont) and Thomas (OklaO
have threatened in interviews to
demand an investigation of that Or
ganization.
Some senators assert the Red
Gross Joined with Mr.. Hoover to
minimize the extent of rural dis
tress.
Wheeler and Thomas complain 1t
is refusing to use vast available re-
sources at its command for relief
purposes.
The house says no funds shall be
appropriated for human food. The
senate wants $15,000,000 food loan
amendment added to the original
s45, 0OO, 900 relief bill.
Drive for Relief Funds
The Red Cross itself has Just
describe the drought problem as
the greatest peacetine emergency
the organization ever has been
called upon to face, and President
Hoover has called on the nation for
$4,000, 600 additional funds for use
by the relief organization.
The relief problem was returned
to the senate Tuesday by a 215-134
vote of the house, which supported
Mr.. Hoover'S opposition to federal
appropriations for human food.
The latest senatorial storm over
charges that Edgar B. BrosSard of
Utah is unduly friendly to the So
called sugar interests had subsidized
today with the senate'S confirmation
Of Brossard as member of the re-
organized tariff commission.
Brossard, Dixon Confirmed
Favorable action on BroSsard and
Lincoln Dixon Of Indiana completed
the senate's approval of the six
tariff commissioners named by Pres
ident Hoover. All have been Serv-
ing for several months under recess
appointments.
Confirmation Of BroSSard, for sew
eraI years a controversial figure in
tariff matters. removed one more
threat to the administrations pro-
gram of avoiding special session
of congress.
Reiteration of his charge that
John Raskob, chairman Of the
Democratic national committee, has
~clapped a first mortgage" on the
Democratic party, was made today
by Frank Kent, political writer for
the Baltimore Sun.
Previous similar statements by
Kent had brought from Raskob a
vigorous denial that he had bought
and paid for" the party and was at
tempting to pick its presidential
candidate next year.
"You brought the party out of
bankruptcy" Kent wrote in reply,
.stood it on its financial feet and
then clapped a first mortgage on it.
You are the first mortgage holder
OF the Democratic party today, ana
in my Judgment that is not good
thing"