Evening star., 1934-12-26
PLANS
SWING FROM DOLE
Maps Work Program as
Aides Keep Eye on
MLeftiSts."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, approaching
the moment when decisions of tre-
mendous import are to be made pub
lie, worked today on program which,
among other things, is expected to
mark a definite swing from the dole"
to work relief.
While the President labored on
the message he will deliver-perhaps
in person-to Congress on January 8,
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill
cooked a wary eye to what, for want
of a better tenn, is generally called
the left" They strove to forestall
any rising which might spell major
upset in the administrators pro-
gram.
Knowing that suggestions which,
added together. would spell s30,000,-
600, 300 more spending are in the
air, some legislators are talking again
of scrapping the famous "l45 rule"
under which that number of sigma
lures on a petition cSn force bill
to rhe foor. The proposal is that
majority-2l8-be required.
Confers With Aides.
Mr.. Roosevelt meanwhile scheduled
a final series of talks with aides on
the legislative program.
He said there would be no one gen.
eral conference on the congressional
program, but rather number of
talks with cabinet members, the di-
rector of the budget, the leaders of
the Senate and House and others.
The Presidents first business caller
today was DR.. Rexford Tugwell, the
Undersecretary of Agriculture. At
torney General Cummings was
luncheon guest.
DR.. Tugwell, who still occupies the
intimate position as one of the Presi-
dents closest advisers, came during
the early forenoon. Senator Nye'S
visit was his first appearance at the
White House since the President
created his special committee to take
the profit out of war" at the head
of which he placed Bernard Baruch
of New York, economist and financier.
Senator Nye has been engaged in the
investigation by the Senate Committee
of munition makers activities and
profits, and at the time President
Roosevelt's committee and its pur-
poses was announced, was accredited
with remark to the effect that the
White House might be trying to steal
the Senate show.
Report Still Unread.
In response to inquiries at his press
conference today, Mr.. Roosevelt said
he had been unable, over the week
end, to read the report of the White
Sulphur Springs business conference
but would do so as soon as possible.
Mr.. Roosevelt also said he was
seriously considering charging local
communities a share in the cost of
a flood control and navigation i'm
provement.
Likewise, he said he was seeking
to establish the principle that boats
using water highways should pay a
small share toward the cost of de-
veloping and maintaining these routes.
He feels that if Federal, State or
local governments make private prop
erty tree of floods there might be a
just right in asking that the owners
pay a snare OF CIle COSC.
Mr.. Roosevelt emphasized that the
proposition was still in the study
stage. He pointed out that. in the
case of city property owners, they
shared part of the cost of street i'm
provements.
lnfiationists to Meet.
Those leaders who want to leave
money alone for the present are
weighing the chances of inflation-
lists agreeing en- an expansion pro-
gram at rouud-table meeting called
for January 16 Senator Thomas of
Oklahoma, other legislators, Father
Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, rep
resentatives of the Sound Money
League, the committee for the Ma
ton and of farm groups are listed
among those to attend. The aim,
Thomas said, Is in accord on a "ra-
tional" imitation plan.
Should they all agree, most OBJ
servers feel, their opponents will have
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