Evening star., 1932-06-24
Speaker IntimateS Smell "De-
CIined ResponSibiIity"-M-
nority Leader RetaliateS.
STATE LOANS INCLUDED
IN H0USE-SENATE BILLS
Conference Must Iron Out Differ
ences Between Wagner Measure
and Texans Program.
BY ire Associated Press

BY tf e Associated Press.
Tne House today sent to conference
with the Senate the $4,000, ,O00, 900 Gar
ner-Wagner relief bill
Negotiations will begin Immediately
in an effort TO reach a compromise on
differences between the two Houses over
the measure.
The Senate passed the Wagner bill
yesterday while the House approved the
Garner measure some time ago.
Speaker Garner appointed as House
conferees Chairman Collier of the Ways
and Means Committee, Representative
Crisp of Georgia, Rainey of Illinois,
Democrats; Representative Treadway of
Massachusetts, and Bacharach Of New
Jersey, Republicans.
Senate conferees, named yesterday
are Chairman Norbeck of the Banking
Committee and Senators Brookhart
Republican. Of Iowa and Wagner
Democrat, of New York.
Smell Declined Place.
Before naming conferees Speaker
Garner told the House he had planned
to appoint himself, Representative
resentative Rainey, the Democratic
leader, but that he had been COM
PEELED to do otherwise because Smell
declined to accept the responsibility"
Smell, apparently irritated, arose and
said:
THE Speaker has said did not want
to accept the responsibility. 1 want to
say to him and to the House and the
country that the minority leader never
has refused responsibility
What the Speaker proposes never
before has been done. This bill be-
longs to the Ways and Means Commit
tee and 1 am trying to protect my
men who are on that committee.
ANY responsibility that comes my
way I'll accept just as well as the
Speaker"
Garner then appointed the three
ranking Democrats and two Republic
ans from the Ways and Means Commit
tee which handled the Speakers relief
measure.
VIII Act Next Week.
Rainey. Ways and Means Commit
tee member, told newspaper men: III
will be late next week before we agree
on a relief bill"
And, of course. Congress can't ad-
journ until some time after that" he
added.
He said he would resist any effort
to keep out of the completed bill q
big public works program. financed
by quarter of cent tax on gasoline,
like the Speaker proposed"
He added he would oppose the pro-
vision of the Wagner bill making $780,
600, 900 available through the Recon
struction Finance Corporation for loans
to States.
States have borrowed from the Fed
eral Government before and they never
did pay back the money" he said. Be
sides that, If that provision Is to re-
main in the bill it ought to be on a
much broader base that would let loans
be made to municipalities and all polit-
ical subdivisions"
Rainey held that nothing in the re-
lief bill but the public works program
will go very far toward giving us what
we need-increased employment, more
people making money to spend"
Differences Are Broad.
The differences between the two
houses are broad. The Senate voted an
increase of $1,500,000,0 900 in the Re-
construction Finance Corporations bor-
rowing power to finance loans to States
and private corporations for construction
Of self-liquidating projects and fnanc-
ing foreign sale of crop surpluses. With
this went an additional $500, ,000
Reconstruction Finance Corporation au-
thorization to make loans to States for
relief purposes, and-opposed by the
President-a $500, 600, 900 bond issue for
specific public works.
The House bill provides 81 900, 1000, ,00C
reconstruction unit capital expansion
fol construction loans; $780, .00O
bond issue Financed by gasoline taxi
for specified post office, highway. water
way and flood control construction
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