Evening star., 1933-03-26
ROOSEVELT FACING
/. FIGHT FOR BILLS
Substitute Reforesting Meas
ure Will Be Reported to
Senate Tomorrow.
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the President will have full authority
to establish 81 day as the pay for the
men to be employed In reforestation
aid to place them in camps as he orgi-
nally proposed. If reports are correct,
the President is prepared to 60 ahead
with his original plans. He is ready, 1t
Is said, to accept full responsibility in
the matter, so as to give employment
and aid to the greatest possible num-
Der of the unemployed.
The opinion was expressed by Sen
ator Walsh that in the end the Presi-
dent may see that the pay of the men
is higher than 81 a day. He also ex-
pressed doubt that camps would be
used, as originally proposed. In these
surmises, Senator Walsh did not agree
with other members of the Senate, who
insisted that the President would 60
through with the program he had pro-
posed.
Fav0rs Increase in Pay.
Chairman Connery of the House
Labor Committee made no effort to
forecast what kind of bill his committee
would bring out or whether 1t would
take the Walsh substitute He said that
ne himself favored increasing the pay
OF the men under this measure to $50
a month fer single men and $50 a
month for married men and $50 a
month for single men who have de-
pendents.
The administration farm bill, which
passed the House without any change
Whatever last week, will be held before
tne Senate Committee on Agriculture
tomorrow and Tuesday for further
hearings Chairman Smith said last
night. Then it will be taken up in ex-
ecutlve session for action and report to
the senate. He intimated that it might
pe thursday or even later before a re-
port was made. Senator Smith himself
has substitute for the farm bill which
ne will urge upon the committee.
Whue the congressional committees
are working on the reforestation bill
and the farm bill, the administration
has gone ahead rapidly with its draft
ing OF the farm mortgage bill.
notwithstanding the assaults made
on the farm and reforestation bills, the
President is still likely to have his way
to large extent in the final passage of
Doth these measures. Evidences that
the country is strongly behind the
President continued to pour into Wash
ingtcn. And as long as that situation
continues, opponents of his legislative
to get far In Congress.
Rainey Sounds Battlecry.
Speaker Rainey of the House yester-
day sounded the battlecry of the ad-
ministration forces in the House.
Permanent improvement in the
United States depends" he said, upon
putting into effect the administration s
entire reconstruction program. We are
on the edge of precipice. 1t must be
bridged The bridge is the admins
tration's reconstruction program. If
any part of it fails, the bill bridge will
not be complete"
Mr. Rainey included in his list of ad-
ministration measures which must be
passed the bank bills, the economy law,
the beer law, farm bills. unemploy-
ment bills, and transportation bills.
The Speaker predicted that the re-
forestation bill will be passed by the
House as the President wants it. He
said the rank and file of the House
were back of the President.
He took issue with the criticism
levelled at the reforestation bill by
President Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. who had charged the
passage of such legislation would lead
to Fascism. Socialism or worse.
IF we don't pass this BILL" said Mr.
Rainev, well have Fascism or Social
ism, I should say. This bill is meant
to take men out of bread lines in this
country and to put them into whole
some camps They will be released
when they can obtain better jobs out
side. OF course, there must be a meas
ure of discipline in the camps. When
We are engaged in war we resort to
martial law. This is war we are en-
gagged in now.
People Give Support"
"How fast Congress acts to put
through this administration program
depends on what we hear from the
country. At present We hear of tre-
mendous support for the President on
the part of the people. We will win
this economic war for the people if they
will stay with us"
Mr.. Rainey said he expected the
President would send to the Congress
early this week his bill dealing with
farm mortgages. The small home
mortgage bill, he added, would be taken
up later and as a separate measure.
"The farm mortgage bill will be given
the right of way in the House as soon
as it comes to U.s." said the Speaker.