Evening star., 1933-01-26
SENATE GETS AID
BILL ALONG LINES
ROOSEVELT FAVORS
Committee Drafts Compro-
mise Containing Features
of Two Measures.
PROPOSALS OF WAGNER
DECLARED ACCEPTABLE
La Toilette Says General Relief
Action Will Be Sought at
First Opportunity.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A general relief program. understood
by its sponsors to carry out suggestions
of President-elect Roosevelt, was agreed
upon today by the Senate Manufactures
Committee and report of the measure
to the Senate was authorized without a
record vote.
This latest proposition combines the
La Toilette Costigan and Cutting bills
which had aimed at different angles of
the relief problem.
Senators La Toilette of Wisconsin and
Cutting of New Mexico. Republican in
dependents. who supported the Demo-
cratic presidential ticket. conferred at
Warm Springs recently with the Presi-
dent-elect and said they found him
Sympathetic"
The new bill authorizes direct grants
to the State with total fund of $780,
100000 to be available. and increases by
like sum the notes, bonds and similar
obligations which the corporation is au-
thorized to ISSUE
Board of Three Provided.
1t sets up Federal emergency relief
board cf three members to be ap-
pointed by the President, the board to
allocate the funds, certifying to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
which shall act as fiscal agent, what
payments are to be made.
The combined bill removes the pro-
vision of the La Toilette Costigan bill
that the chief of the Children's Bureau
shall be the executive officer of the
board and substitutes authority for the
board to select its own executive officer.
After La Toilette and Cutting re-
turned from Warm Springs they gave
Roosevelt's views to Senator Costigan
Democrat. of Colorado). and then La
Toilette called the committee together
to formulate combined bill.
The composite measure retains much
of the La Toilette -Costigan bill. but
discards the provision for floating a
$500, 100000 bond issue
.4. 40 Per Cent for States.
Provisions making available 40 per
cent of the total fund for apportion-
ment among the States on the basis
of population are kept in the bill, along
with the stipulation the payments shall
not exceed two-thirds of the States
relief expenditures from public and
private funds
llc w -UCl CSllt, Will llIC
exception of the SIS 900 ,0cO for transient
relief and s350000 for administration.
is set aside as a reserve fund to be
allotted on the basis of need
Both the transient and the other
relief moneys would be administered by
the States under their own rules and
regulations.
Amendments Germane.
La Toilette told newspaper men there
was no attempt to combine in the bill
proposals advocated by Senator Wagner,
Democrat, Of New York, for liberalizing
the existing relief machinery but added
that amendments Of this character, if
offered on the Senate floor, will be
entirely germane."
Cutting, commenting on the incorpora.
tion of his transient relief proposals in
the bill, said if the boil failed of ap-
proval he would renew the fight for
Federal help in this field by bringing
up his bill separately.
La Toilette said the combined meas
ure would be reported to the floor as
soon as possible and action sought at
the first opportunity.