Evening star., 1932-09-10
s2(O,ODO,O)O ADDED
To PUBLIC BUILDING
FUNDS FOR RELIEF
Projects to Be Speeded Up
to Be Announced by
Treasury Monday.
OUTLAY FOR YEAR NOW
TOTALS $750,OOO, 900
Secretary Mills Notifies President
Money Is Available to Proceed
With New Work.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
More millions were added today to
huge Federal outlays on public con-
struction which President Hoover says
nave more than doubled in recent years
as an employment aid.
Slightly less than 10000, ,o0O," was
Che Chief Executives estimate of the
sum to be expended Immediately under
the relief act
He said this amount would bring
this fiscal years total construction out
lay to over $75o, o,Ooo, 900, which, in turn,
would bring aggregate construction eX-
penditures since the depression began to
about $4,000 900 900.
Mr.. Hoover announced the Govern
ment's plan to speed construction with
relief act funds in formal statement
late yesterday accompanied by a letter
from Secretary of the Treasury Mills
saying the money would be available at
once.
Presidents Announcement.
The President said:
In order further to aid employment
have instructed the various departments
to undertake the speeding up of the
Federal construction program by the
amount of slightly less than $780,
100000, being the contingent appropri-
alton in the 1882 relief and construction
act
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
notified me that the necessary funds
he iInI D,, l..
addition of the amounts which can
be applied from this fund the total
Federal construction work during the
present fiscal year of all kinds will ex-
coed $3.50, 100000.
This speeding up from this addi-
tional fund will be largely in the river
and harbor, food control and public
building projects, which were authorized
from 2 to 5 years ago.
THE expenditure on all classes of
construction since the depression began
and up to next July will total about
$4,000, 600, 600. This sum is more than
double the normal pace, and the en-
larged work has, Of course, been under
taken solely in aid to employment.
Program Due Monday.
THE actual projects which will be
speeded up under this additional sum
will be announced by the various de-
partmentS"
The first of these announcements.
alloting the relief actss 100000, 900
public building appropriation, is due at
the Treasury Monday. Controller Gen
eral McCarl has ruled the 10 per cent
economy slash must be made in this
sum, but it still is undecided whether
this cuts the entire figure or the
amounts spent on individual projects.
Other departments are expected to
make an early apportionment of their
funds.
Secretary Mills Letter.
The letter from Secretary Mills, say
ing the money is now available, read as
follows:
LAS you are aware, the emergency
relief and reconstruction act of 1882
provides for the further speeding up
of certain Federal construction projects,
practically all of which were authorized
some time ago as part of the general
Federal building and construction pro-
gram, provided the sums appropriated
shall not be expended If the Secretary
of the Treasury certifes to the Presi-
dent that the amount necessary for
such expenditure is not available and
cannot be obtained upon reasonable
terms
Knowing your desire to provide all
the employment possible in the country,
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