Evening star., 1932-02-11
SENATE INCREASES
+ DIRECT RELIEF BILL
Fund Voted in Amendment
! Brings Total Carried
to $3.50, 1000, 900.
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sitic spirit toward the National Gov
ernment."
Peckham also questioned statements
regarding the need of Federal relief
by Gov Clifford Pinchot Of Pennsyl-
vania. He said:
If the rest of his statement was no
more true than the impression he tried
to create that Pennsylvania, one OF the
richest States In the Union, was un-
able to keep its inhabitants from starv-
ing, then all the rest of his testimony
should be ignored"
Miss Kilbreth likewise attacked Pin
chot'S testimony.
Il hold" she said, that this silence
.of 48 Legislatures and of At Governors
sall the. the advocates of this bill. No Gov
Sernor has applied for help except Gov
Pinchot and Gov. PinChot's testimony
amounts to virtually an appeal to Con-
.gress against the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature and the Pennsylvania constitu-
tion."
- BOrah and FeSs Clash.
~ Borah stirred the Senate yesterday
; as it has not been moved in years with
5 an excitingly vivid demand for aid te
The people, now Fess struck back
phrase for phrase, eXpounding again
: the oft-repeatsd Hoover principle that
: jobless aid is a local problem, that
: Federal help is dole.
- = Borah waved all this aside, uncaring
holding fast to the point that there is
a crisis requiring unprecedented effort
to control His voice thundered as he
pronounced:
"A government which will not pro-
tect those who protect it, is flying a
flag which is dirty rag, contaminat-
ing the air in which it flies"
For more than two hours the schol-
arly Fess and the powerful Borah
dueled on the Republican side of the
chamber, failing their desks and
pounding out questions and answers in
raised voices.
An intent membership filled the floor
and listened to the debate. Several
times the applause of the gallery
drowned out attempts of the presiding
officer to quell it Once no attempt was
made to check the demonstration
a Charging that Borah was making
the dole the foot ball of politics" Fess
- Warned that once eStabllShed there
would be no end to it.
q I'VE are simply undertaking to con-
troll crisis" said the Idahoan. Thou
sands are unable to take care Of them
selves. There is not a senblance of a
:: dole here. If this is a dole, then
Illinois, Pennsylvania and other States
are paying a dole.
Terrible Suffering"
! IT am convinced there is widespread
and terrible suffering in this country
Thousands and millions Of homes have
not had a day free from care in le
is taking away children.
Il sometimes doubt if the great wal
Itself entailed greater misery, more
agony of heart and mind than this
Z crisis True, the armies left their dead
y and dying, but you can paint a picture
of desolation and ruin and blasted
hopes behind this army Of unem-
= ployed,"
Senator Fess opened the debate with
the first attack upon the direct relief
bill voiced by the Republican opposi-
:. direct relief bill as matter of princi-
pie and to the s750,000,000 Democratic
substitute because he was not con-
vinced of its necessity.
- Il am opposed to the Federal Gov
ernment entering on this relief pro-
gram because when it does there will
be no end" Fess said, 1T will be pro-
gressive 1t is not the length Of the
first step that is dangerous. 1t is the
direction"
F., "No Limit to Demands"
Fess said the only difference between
him and sponsors of the Democratic
substitute for loans to State was
whether there would be actual starva-
ton unless the Government took a
/; hand
II don't believe that point has been
reached" he added. once We start
. appropriating for the unemployed the
/, flood gates will be opened. There Is no
! limit to the demands Of men out OF
/ work. They will demand that the Gov
+ ernment take care Of them and say the
Government owes me living.
Borah said the moral effect on cltl-
zen was no different whether he got aid
from the Federal or State government.
The Ohioan contended the dlstlnctlon
was "as wide as the poles" that there
was a world of difference" between a
T. person receiving help from his neigh
:; bors and from a Federal bureau IN
Washington.
X" The Idahoan characterized as a
''libel upon American citizenship an
intimation by Fess that an American
citizen couldn't stand to be fed unless
1t undermined his character"
1T is not in the general welfare to
destroy every fibre Of our American
Government by this proposition OF
giving money away" Fess said.
Asserting that you can't find any
authority for the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation except in the Soviet
dictatorship in Russia" Borah said
I'm complaining that men who
voted to take money out of the Treas
ury to revive business are now un-
willing to take money to save human
lives. The issue is matecialism against
humanity"
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, entered the debate at one point
to say the substitute bill offered by
his party for loans to States in
corporated the same principle as that
embraced in the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation act"
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