Evening star., 1933-06-11
HUGE FISCAL BILL
Nj STUCK IN SENATE
La Toilette Blocks $3,459,.
100000 Appropriations
After House Passage.
ny the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Nations biggest peace time ap-
preparation bill, putting $3,459 900 ,00o
on tap as fuel for the Roosevelt recov-
cry machine, was pushed forward rap
idly yesterday in Congress, but struck
q snag in the Senate last night.
Passed by the House on a 287-to-84
to the Senate, where Senator La Toilette,
Republican, of Wisconsin, objected to
consideration under a unanimous con-
sent agreement, thereby adding another
stumbling block to adjournment.
Presented to Senate.
Shortly after the House passed the
bill, Senator Bratton, Democrat, of New
Mexico, presented favorable report on
it to the Senate and asked for its i'm
mediate consideration.
'I object" the young Wisconsin SEN
ator shouted above the hubbub in the
chamber
"I object and it can only be consid-
cred tonight by unanimous consent, /"
LaFollette said, until / know the fate
of the conference report on the indus
trial control and independent offices
bills"
Bratton submitted the report anyway,
but made no further effort to obtain its
1mmeQ1ate consideration.
Only One Precedent.
Only once has Congress passed a
bill making available more money than
was carried in the measure asked by
the President to let him begin operat-
ing his economic recovery program. The
other was wartime BILL passed July
9, 1918, and appropriated $10,225, ,000,-
600 for the War Department.
The newest bill provides funds for
many phases of the administration pro-
gram, notably $3,250, ,000, 900 for public
works under the industrial bill and
$50, ,000, 600 for initial work in the Mus
Gle Shoals Tennessee Valley develop
ment project.
Asked for by the President only Fri
day night, the bill was approved by an
Appropriations Subcommittee that met
until midnight. 1t was reported by
the fun committee in 30-minute ses-
sion yesterday morning, brought up on
the floor and passed within less than
two hours.
In addition to the public works and
Muscle Shoals funds the bill carried
$4,000, 600 for the revolving fund Great
led by the farm credit act and 100000
for administration of the act; 81 5000
for the new national employment serv-
ice to be set up under the Wagner
Peysers bill; $50,000,0 to be paid in to
the surplus of Federal land banks as
provided in the farm mortgage bill;
Sl5,000,000 to meet reductions in farm
mortgage interest rates by Federal banks
from to Az per cent; $50,000,000 for
subscriptions to preferred shares in Fed
eral savings and loan associations es-
tablished by the home mortgage bill;
$265, 900 for the Federal Trade Com
10, cfo "a cnrr1vfftnc arf.
$125, 900 for expenses of the American
delegation to the London Economic
Conference and several thousands more
for claims against the Government.
Provision Stricken Out.
One provision asked by the President
was stricken out yesterday in the House
on point of order by Representative
Wadsworth, Republican, of New York.
That would have authorized reimburse
ments for expenses in the Muscle
Shoals Tennessee project incurred at
the direction Of the President before
passage of the bill
The House Appropriations Commit
tee also rejected a request for $780,
086 to pay whites evicted from Pueblo
Indian lands for improvements they
made.
As the bill passed the House. Rep
resentative Taber, Republican, of New
York, said: THE Federal budget with
the bill now before the House is un-
balanced almost beyond the dreams of
wartime.
Take out the savings he said, "and
you have increased the expenditures
$3,269 600, 900 for the year."
In connection with the Muscle Shoals
funds, Arthur E. Morgan, who retired
as president of Antioch College in Ohio
to be chairman of the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority already has made plans
to combine education with construction
of the Governments $4,000, 900 dam
at Cove Creek
He intends to pick 500 or more young
workers who live in the nearby hills
and teach them the arts of trade dur
ing the four-year construction period
Construction at Cove Greek will get
under way soon. Morgan expects to
start within a month or two on the
power plants, which must be built be-
fore actual construction of the dam
gets under way.
The project includes reforestation,
food control, water power development
with Government operation of the huge
Muscle Shoals plants, reclamation and
agricultural rehabilitation and navi-
CATION improvement.