Evening star., 1932-06-26
Wagner and Garner Retort
HeatedIy to "Pork Barrel"
Charge by Hoover.
N0RBECK SEES NO HOPE
OF REWRITING PROVISIONS
Plans for Adjournment Next Week
Hinge Largely on Outcome
Of Controversy.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The possibility of revising the huge
$4,000, 0,0o0,0 900 unemployment relief bill
to meet President Hoover's wishes al
most vanished yesterday as its sponsors
shot back hot retorts to the Chief Ex-
ecutive's charge Of pork barrel" legis-
lation.
The bill was vigorously defended by
Speaker Garner Of the House and Sen
ator Wagner, Democrat, Of New York,
as the House and Senate conferees be-
gan negotiations which President Hoo
yer hopes will result in a rewritten
measure.
Wagner rose in the Senate to reply to
the President and advised the public to
reject the criticism of "one who has
throughout the depression been wrong,
late and futile"
Garner Answers Criticism.
Speaker Garner, at his daily confer
ence with newspaper men. said:
I'VE loan the shipping interests many
millions Of dollars at a very low rate OF
interest and it's all right. When we
try to do something for all the people
it's pork barrel To serve special in.
terests IS craftsmanship; to serve the
people Is pork"
The conferees, facing the tremendous
task of ironing out differences between
the Garner House bill and the Wagner
Senate measure, made little progress
and agreed to resume their work Mon
day.
Chairman Norbeck of the Senate
group, however, said it would be vir-
tually impossible to write the bill as
the President has asked.
To do this, he added, would be very
much resented by the authors of the
bills" and would be difficult to the
point of impossible"
Meanwhile, plans for the adjourn
ment of Congress next week hung
largely on the outcome Of the relief
controversy.
The Senate worked on the remaining
appropriation hiils which must be ap-
proved by June 80, while the House,
with nothing to do, was in adjournment
over the week end.
Wagner charged that President Hoo
YER. in his attack Friday on the relief
bill had not been candid" and was
"defying the light and the TRUTH" but
be also aSsailed the Presidents record
On relief
Continuously Wrong"
"Mr. Hoover has been continuously
and invariably wrong on unemploy-
ment," he said. He was wrong when
he resisted the effort during times OF
prosperity to prepare for the possible
Say of depression.
"He was wrong when he announced
On March Z, 1880, that within so days
the depression would be over.
"He was wrong more recently when
he declared that the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation would contribute
to the resumption Of employment ana
The stabilization of prices and that no
more direct methods were necessary.
I'm view of this record declare that
the public will do well to reject the
criticism Ct one who has Throughout the
depression been wrong, late and futile.
Wagner contended his bill would help
balance the budget and said there was
no warrant for the Presidents state
ment that the money would be spent
where it was not needed.
He charged Mr.. Hoover with being
mot quite candid" when he estimated
the public works provisions would give
4 eOlDlCyIlellb QncCl1y W O4A4y AOOtoOOs
The New Yorker estimated 100000
would find employment from the public
works program and that 100000 jobs
would be created by the entire bill
without taking into consideration the
Jobs provided by the money they would
spend.
House leaders, meanwhile, expressed
concern over the slow progress on sup
ply bills. Only 2 of the IL annual ap-
preparation measures have become law
and the fiscal year ends Thursday night.
I'VE are not going to pass any con-
tinuing resolutions" Representative
Smell, the Republican leader, t2ld news
paper men. THAT would nul-ify all
the economy efforts made by the House
this session because it would mesn re-
appropriating the same amounts the
Government is spending this year.
This would unbalance the budget.
It is up to the Senate to get these bills
on the statute books by Thursday night.
If it doesn't, then it's the Senate's re-
sponSibility."