Evening star., 1934-05-15
Asks Congress to Assign
Main Portion, $94O, $685.
600, to Him for Relief and
Public Works Purposes.
BROAD DISCRETIONARY
POWER IS REQUESTED
Appropriation Would Increase
Public Debt to All.Time Peak
of $31,ss4, ,Oo0,o ,oOO-Chief Ex-
ecutive Warns Against Exceed
ing Sum Asked.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt asked Congress
today for 1892 900, 900 TO taper off
the emergency recovery expenditures
during the coming Government year.
The main portion of the fund
S94O ,9O5 ,000-was assigned by the
President for general relief and pub
lie works purposes. He asked discre-
tionary power to use it as demands
required
Out of this, however, he has tagged
500 100000 for road construction.
$40 900 900 for starting the Navy ship
building program, S48000000 for the
Tennessee Valley Authority, S35,000,-
900 for public buildings construction
and S5000,00 for the inter American
highway.
The appropriation would increase
the Government debt to the all-time
peak of S31 ,834 900 900 for June 30,
1885, as fixed in the two-year budget
submitted to Congress in January.
Warns Against Increase.
Pointing to pay-as-you-go basis for
the 1886 fiscal year, the President
warned in his message today:
In my Judgment an appropriation
in excess of the above amount would
make more difficult if not impossible
an actual balance of the budget in
the fiscal year 1886. unless greatly
| increased taxes are provided.
The present estimates should be
sufficient as a whole to take care Of
the emergencies of relief and of
! orderly unemployment at least until
the early part of the calendar year
! 1885. If at that time conditions have
not improved as much as we hope to-
day. the next Congress will be in ses-
sion and will have full opportunity
to act"
simultaneously strong intimations
came from high Government sources
today that the administration expects
the banks to do a greater share of
carrying the load and putting out
credit to carry the recovery drive
along.
Completes Recovery Fund.
Today's appropriation request COM
pletes the S3,l66, 100000 emergency
recovery fund proposed for the 1884
1925 fiscal years in the Roosevelt
budget of January The President
| trimmed down today's estimate to
| take care of within the S3l66. 900 900
limit, the extra appropriations voted
by this Congress, including added al
| lowances for veterans and Govern
ment salaries
The Civilian Conservation Corps
would get S285,00O,O0 of the fund
proposed today.
The $100000,000 tentatively tagged
| by the President for road construc-
ton contrasts with the $780, 900 900
road authorization bill recently voted
by the House.
However. it is the opinion of Mr..
Roosevelt that planned civil works IS
a quicker method of providing work
relief and spreading Government ex-
penditures, and there is every indica-
ton that he has a renewal of the
Civil Works Administration in mind
on a more planned basis than the
emergency c. w. A. put quickly into
operation last Winter.
Deficit Is Under Estimate.
The deficit for this fiscal year end
| ing June 80 so far stands as little
more than $3,000,000 900. whereas the
original Roosevelt budget contem-
plated $1,000. 100000 deficit for this
year and $4,000, 100000 next year.
The peak of construction under the
$4,000 100000 public works program
launched year ago by the Govern
ment is expected by the administra-
tion to be reached during August of
this year. About s500.000,0 900 of to-
days appropriation is earmarked for
continuation and expansion of this
program.
Text of Message.
The text of President Roosevelt's
message to Congress today, request
ing supplemental appropriations, fol-
lows:
In my budget message to the
Congress of January 3, 1884, said
to you:
1T is evident to me. as I am
sure it Is evident to you, that pow
erful forces for recovery exist. 1t
is by laying a foundation of conf
dence in the present and faith in
the future that the upturn which
We have so far seen will become
cumulative. The corner stone of this
foundation is the good credit of
the Government.
1T is, therefore, not strange
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