Evening star., 1932-02-17
'STATEL0ANS URGED
AS SENATE REJECTS
75(lM|LL|ON RELIEF
Democrats Renew Proposal
for Government Advances
to the States.
LA Toilette MEASURE
VOTED DOWN, 48 TO 35
Wisconsin Senator Pleads in Vain.
Black Blames Defeat on Re-
fusal to Compromise.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
With the Senate now strongly on
record against Federal donations to un-
employment relief, the Democratic
members today renewed their proposal
for jobless aid in the form of loans to
the States
The $750,000,0O0 La Toilette Costigan
direct relief bill was defeated decisively
in the Senate last night The vote was
48 to IS against it, with party lines
split. The most eloquent appeals of the
measures supporters failed to jar the
majority determination that no prece
dent of direct aid be established.
The Democrats, however, Immediately
introduced their S75U 100000 bill for
loans instead of gifts, a proposal which
previously had been rejected as sub
stitute for the La Follette-Costigan
measure. To succeed with this bill they
must receive the cooperation OF the
independent Republicans who lined up
with the administration forces to defeat
the substitute.
Hope to Unite FOrceS.
Senators Black, Democrat Alabama,
and Buckley, Democrat. Ohio, offered
the fresh bill in the hope of uniting the
many Senators who have shown during
the past two weeks of debate that they
favored some form of Federal aid.
They contended that a clear majority
has voted for one relief plan or another,
but that this majority has not been
brought together because Of wide dis
agreement about the manner of dis
tributing the funds.
To reach the vote last night the Sen
ate had to remain in session long after
the usual adjournment hour, listening
to a last-minute furry OF debate be-
tween opposing leaders
Senator La Toilette, Republican, WIS
consin, pleaded for enactment OF the
bill to prevent millions Of Americans
being reduced to the animal level OF
subsistence
Black in turn charged La Toilette
and his followers with responsibility
for killing the relief plan by their re-
fusal to compromise.
La toilette asserted, This issue OF
preservation of human life is irrepressl-
BILE and will not down
He assailed FeSs, Reed and Walsh 1or
their opposition to the measure, assert
ing the Ohio Senator's speech against
the measure should go down in history
with the famous remark OF Marie An
toinette of France in asking why starV,
ing citizens did not eat cake instead
of bread"
Philadelphia Figures Cited.
"On the day that Senator Reed was
asserting that Pennsylvania could take
care of her needy" the Wisconsin Sen
ator said, the chairman of the Rellef
Committee at Philadelphia issued a
statement saying their relief amounted
to s4.38 per family per week.
Els voice rising, La Toilette shouted
that only last session Senator Walsn
had introduced a bill providing that
the Federal government should contrib
ute so per cent of the relief burden OF
the States"
La Toilette said the facts presented
were in his opinion enough to convince
any fair-minded Senator that the Dill
provided a workable and satisfactory
method of providing relief and woulo
provide human ccale OF living lnsteao
OF the animal basis OF survival OF the
fittest.' ;,
Organized labor leaders to the man.
La fOlleLLe SdlQ, IldNc odio bAAAo SAAA -
needed and badly needed
Senator Black, one OF the authors
of the Democratic substitute defeated
Yesterday. denied that human life was
the issue.
The issue is not whether We want
to feed the hungry he said, but
whether we want to create new Fed
eral bureau in Washington.
Black charged that sponsors OF the
La Toilette Costigan bill were to blame
for defeat of relief legislation, because
they would not yield on the issue OF
administering the fund through Gov
ernment bureau.
Answered BY COstisan.
Senator Costigan, Democrat, Colo
RADIO, the co-author of the bill, repEeo
the Senate would not agree to appro-
priating so much money without Great
ing some form of Federal supervision
over its use.
The roll call was as follows:
For the bill: Blame,
Borah, Brookhart. Cutting, Davis, Fra
zier, johnson, Jones, La Toilette, NOR
beck. Norris. Nye, Schall, Stelwer,
Thomas of Idaho-15.
Defnocrats-Ashurst, Bratton. Bulk
lev, Caraway, Copeland, Costigan, Dill,
Fletcher, Hayden, Logan, McGill, NC
Kellar, Nicely. Sheppard, Smith, Tram
NELL Wagner, Walsh of Montana and
wheeler-19.e
bor-Shipstead-1.
Total-35
Against the bill: Republicans-Austin,
Barbour, Bingham. Capper, Carey, Cou-
zens, Dale, Dickinson, Fess, Goldsbor-
ough, Hale, Hastings, Hatfield. Hebert,
Kean, Keyes, McNary, Oddie. Patterson,
Reed, Robinson of Indiana, Smoot,
Townsend. Vandenberg, Walcott, Wat
son and White-27.
Demoorats-Bailey. Bankhead. Black,
Broussard. Byrnes, Connally, Coolidge,
George. Glass. Gore Harrison, Hawes,
Hull. Kendrick, King. Morrison, Pitt
man. Robinson of Arkansas, Stephens,
Tydings, and Walsh of Massachu-
setts-21.
Totals.
Pairs Announced.
The following pairs were announced:
For-Republican - Howell. Demo-
crats-Barkley, Bulow and Thomas,
Oklahoma.
Against-Republica Glenn
and Waterman. Democrat-Swanson.
Senator Lewis, Democrat. Illinois,
voted present" No announcement
was made regarding Senators Harris,
Long, Metcalf and Shortridge, who were
absent.
Cold Hits Alberta Cattle.
CALGARY, Alberta, February II LH).
Shortage of water and feed for live