The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-06
Rep. Rainey Claims Hoover Relief Bill Carries As Much
 Money As Democratic Plan
Replying To Republican Floor Leader She'll, He De-
 clares It Includes Features of Garner Proposal
 -Mills' Errors Exposed by Democratic Leader.

-MIllS ErforS EXpol
 Washington.-Democrafic lead- CT of the House, Henry T. .Rainey, made reply to a speech of the re- publican House Leader Shell in the Appendix to the Congressional Record of July 25, in which he took the latter to task for delaying his attack upon the democratic house until after congress had ad- tourned, when he had two full days in which to make his speech upon the floor prior to adjourn ment. ss.,
 T doubt whether more misrep- resentation of fact and more pure demagogy has ever been assembled in an alleged speech of equal length" said MT Rainey, referring to republican Leader Shells speech hidden away in the Congressional Record after adjournment. Forum ately, there were subsequent issues of the Appendix to the Record to permit a reply. as MT Rainey pointed out.
 The democratic leader said that Republican Leader She'll discusses President Hoover's constructive program" as he calls it, and con- demns what the president desig- mated as the democratic pork bar rel bill, and adds:
 "He' forgets to mention that the
 relief bill which finally met with
 the presidents approval
 carries just as much money as the
 democratic relief bill .. and
 the only features which were en-
 titled to approval were carried,
 all of them in the original Garner
 plan bill. The difference is that
 sented constructive method of
 financing through the years; the
 relief bill, as passed, under the
 presidents dictation, simply has
 the effect of adding the immense
 sum carried by it to the public
 dsSt This nanenxp s sSs nssy
 from the standpoint of republican
 leaders"
 Concerning MT Shells criticism of what he charges to be a demo- cratic delay in balancing the budg- ct, MT Rainey points out that the democratic majority of the House is compelled to meet the republic can deficit represented to them by Assistant Secretary Mills, now sec retary of the treasury, of $901. .000,- 900. He tells of a visit of the Honorable Bernard M. Baruch, a distinguished economist and a democratic leader, who pointed out to him that the approaching re- publican deficit for the fiscal year of 1882 would exceed that amount by $40O,0O0. 900 that Assistant Sec- retary Mills revised his figures from a $900,000.000 deficit to $1,- 100000.
 MT Rainey declared that the gen. eral manufacturers sales tax never was supported by the administra- ton.
 eff 1t had received the support
 of the president and of. the treas
 srs' srS sales uies tax would have been sn Y. the manufacturers' sales tax failed in the republican senate and 1t was apparent that 1t could not be adopted, the president in 8 communication to that body sug. gested 1t as 8 taxe which might Suggestion which came tod late. z It was intended to place repubU- can leaders in 8 position of saying that the administration favored that kind of a tax as defense against the irritating taxes which are now Imposed and for which the administration and the treas ury, department always stood" Referring to a heading in MT Shells speech. Democratic House Preached Economy and Practiced IExtravagance," MT Rainey wonders why MT Shell does not mention that "on account of democratic initiative, the budget proposed by the democratic house and finally carried into permanent legislation. effected q reduction of $1.1OO,0OO,- l0O0 under the republican budget fexpenditures of 1881. If this is not a substantial reduction. MT Rainey declared, made possible by |the democratic house. would like to know what you can call It. Whatever delay there was in the bill to balance the budget was due entirely to the incompetency of the treasury officials, who finally ad- mitted that their estimates were nearly $500, 100000 wrong" Referring to MT snell's criticism of the Garner plan as c pork bar rel bill, Mr Rainey declared: "Ths bill Emergency Relief, a pork barrel is--is the most perfect example of pork barrel iegislation in the history of the country. .. It does not specify any Of the buildings which are to be built or the river and harbor projects which are to be undsrs taken"
 MT Rainey called attention to the fact that under the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. republican eongresses appropriated and are now expending nearly eeb0,000s 900 | for public buildings and improve menfs in the District ef Columbia, "incIuding . ef4,o00s0o0 bridRe where bridge was not hooded and including Q ee,000. 600 roadway whore c roadway was not needed, A mere pittanee has been l disiFibuted throughout the United | states. The hjli which be fMr l Shelly Announced as . pork barrel biii, borrowing that phrase from