The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-28
BOMB ATTACKS TO CLOSE THEATERS
GARNER DENOUNCES
HOOVER OPPOSITION.
TO HIS RELIEF BILL
CritiCiSeS President for
Failure to Cooperate
on JobIeSS Aid.
By United Press

WASHINGTON, May 28.-Speak-
er John Garner today defended his
relief program as a real benefit to
the masses" and attacked Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover for failure to
cooperate.
In formal statement, the Speak
er replied to the Presidents charges
that the Garner S2,146,00O 900 relief
plan was pork barrel legislation"
He declared that the Democrats
had not really expected the Presi-
dent to cooperate in any matter
benefting the masses, and those
who might be termed the middle
class Of American people"
THE Presidents allusion to the
proposed public works program as
a pork barrel comes with poor
grace" Garner said, from one who
demanded that congress cooperate
with him in passing the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation act.
1T would be just as logical to
refer to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation as pork barrel for the
banks, insurance companies, rail-
roads and financial institutions of
the country.
1T is not pork barrel nor can
any other program which will ex-
tend aid in this period of distress
be termed SUCH"
Charges Inconsistency
The Speaker charged the Presi-
dent with utter inconsistency" in
his attitude toward public works
for unemployment relief, quoting at
length from the chief executives
campaign speeches, in which he
urged s1,OOO,OO0,OOO worth Of con-
struction.
There can be no question, >"
Garner said, that the program OF
public works he so ardently advocat-
ed in 1928 is as necessary today as
It was then, and that the ex-
penditure at this time will have a
far reaching influence in the re-
storation of normal conditions.
The Speaker re-emphasized that
his proposed gasoline tax would
more than pay the interest and
sinking fund requirements Of bonds
to be issued for public works. He
estimates yield from this levy at
S42,000,000 annually.
The reconstruction finance cor
poration, the Speaker added, while it
has benefited large institutions, has
not resulted in aiding unemploy-
ment conditions.
1T is obvious" he said, that the
relief to the masses, promised by
administration leaders, has failed
TO materialize."
The principal difference between
the two points OF view on balanced
budget lies in the matter of increas-
ing the public debt, though this is
not brought out clearly in either
statement.
Estimates Cost Too High
While the gasoline tax would pre-
vent unbalancing the federal budget,
so far as current expenditures in
1898 are concerned, the amount Of
bonds issued for such OF those pub
lie works as are not revenue-pro-
ducing would be added to the public
debt
However, the administration plan
for balancing" the budget does not
include any sum for the annual debt
retirement payment.
Hoover in his message estimated
that the interest and upkeep Of post
office buildings to be constructed
under the Garner plan would cost
S14,000,000 a year, while rent and
upkeep Of buildings now in use
amounts to less than 100000.
Garner figures, however. that his
gasoline tax will yield S42,000000 a
year, only half of which will be
needed for interest, with the rest
available for maintenance Of COM
pleted projects.
Hoover, in addition to denounc-
ing the Garner plan as endanger-
ing a balanced budget, also char
acterized it as "the most gigantic
pork barrel ever proposed to the
American congress" and IAN I'M
exampled raid on the public treas
ury."
Hoover Lashes Measure
1T apparently is expected that
the cupidity of the towns and sec
tons will demand that their con-
gressmen and senators vote for this
bill" said Hoover.
Il Just do not believe that such
lack of intelligence or cupidity
exists amongst the people of the
United States. Our nation was
not founded on the pork barrel,
and it has not become great by po-
litical log rolling.
At hope that those many members
Of congress of both parties who, I
know, viii oppose this bill. will re-
ceive the definite support Of the
people Of their districts in resist
ing It,"