The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-26
RELIEF AGENCY
BILL Is KILLED
IN HOUSE VOTE
Postpone Measure to Pay
$40 Weekly for Aid
OF Families.

Thousands Of unemployed and
starving persons who are not eligible
Tor aid from township trustees. to-
DAY found the avenue of aid
through finance raising measures.
blocked by the house of representa-
tives.
While the house killed, by vote
OF 81 to %. the bill which would set
up relief agencies in every county
and pay a maximum of $40 weekly
TO distressed families, the senate
painted picture of no more unem-
ployment in a bill introduced to
provide borrowing funds from the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton.
The senate bill, sponsors said,
would wipe out slums in rural dis
tricts as we'll as cities, thus restoring
property values and providing con-
struction work for unemployed.
Can't BE Reconsidcred
The vote which blocked relief by
the house upheld indefinite post
ponement of the Weiss-E. c. White
bill Under house rules the subject
of unemployment relief can not be
RECONSTRUCTED.
The house bill created a relief
commission in every county of the
state consisting of the circuit Judge
circuit court clerk and president Of
the board Of county commissioners.
The money for unemployment re-
lief would be obtained by a lO-cent
stamp tax on each legal document
requiring a notary seal. 1t did not
ask for funds imposed by direct
taxation
When the report was read Repre-
sentative John D. T. Bold CDemD g.,
Evansville, asked consideration of it
be postponed indefinitely. It's CO.
author, Jacob Weiss Dem), Indi-
annapolis, asked the motion be ia
bled.
Vote Is Even
A voice vote was close with an
apparent edge to the friends of the
bill But a division showed only
twenty for tabling the motion to
table against twenty proponents,
DO you members want to go on
record as opposing unemployment
relief?" Weiss asked. we haven't
adequate funds in any county to
give unemployment relief to thou
sands of distressed and starving.
FTAOVa az tl,@,,@o,,1l@ 90 j
who have some little property and
because of this they can not OBJ
tain township aid. We should help
these folks who, during the last
year, have come in thousands to
soup kitchens here and in other ur-
ban centers.
For Gods sake, reflect before you
vote TO postpone this bill Weiss
pleaded If you adopt that motion
you will kill the subject for the ses-
sion and there can not be any re-
lief
Local machinery to borrow
finance corporation funds and crea-
ton of a state slum clearance bu-
reau Of five persons, under the state
building council, already in exist
ence, is sought in the senate bill.
Act for Slums End
The bureau would make state
wide survey and recommend local
programs of slum clearance.
According to Senator c. Oliver
Holmes tRep), Gary, the bill is de-
signed along the lines of the New
York law, and is "a fine bit of social
legislation, badly needed at this
time"
Senators joining with Holmes in
introduction of the bill we're Win
field Miller, Indianapolis; Harry M.
Williams. FIT. Wayne, and Chester A.
Perkins. South Bend.
According to Holmes, limited
dividend corporations could be
created locally to finance the new
construction from the federal funds,
but under the provision that
reasonable rentals will prevail
Little good can come from the
abolition of Stun areas unless those
who live in them are provided with
better quarters he pointed out.