Evening star., 1934-01-08
NOMINATIONS WAIT |
ON SENATE QUERIES.
Reports Are Requested From
Treasury on Debts, and
Wallace on Taxes.
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to maintain this Government two par
ties were absolutely necessary and that
II was the duty Of the minority to call
to the attention of the country the
errors of the majority.
Meantime, the House Rivers and
Harbors Committee was to open hear
ings today on projected 10000, ,00O
omnibus bill. Other committees also
are to organize for work.
In his statement, Fish said. TO re-
store all the benefits taken from the
veterans whose disabilities last March
we're rated as being Of war origin would
cost about s114.OoO, 900. or approximate
ly l per cent Of the proposed Roosevelt
budget that has bewildered and dazed
the American people"
He added that the merciless misrep-
resentation OF the administration and
the resulting chiseling of the disabled
veterans whom fate has already chiseled
is one Of the tragedies Of the new deal
The New Yorker, who represents
President Roosevelt's home district in
was paying the disabled veterans with
a debased dollar and cutting their com.
pensation at the same time"
Forsfotten Men, He Says
He offered the view that the veterans
became the forgotten men Of the ad-
ministration" under the economy pro-
gram put through at the special session
of Congress last year.
What a travesty and a farce!" he
said. Just six months later President
Roosevelt announces boldly that there
will be a deficit of two billions this
year and proposes to further unbalance
the budget next year by $1,000, ,oO0,0 ,0OO
What crimes have been committed
in the name of the budget toward the
disabled veterans The insincerlty OIL
pretending that the budget must pe
balanced to preserve the national credlt
and the integrity of the dollar at the
expense of the veterans Is Amos.
fraudulent in view of the monetary de-
velopments. and the Presidents recent
budget message.
while billions are being lavlshly
used to unbalance the budget 70 nelp
farm and industrial recovery, the ois-
abled veterans are being treated IN q
shameful and inhuman manner.
Vandenberg Asks Facts
Senator Vandenberg, in an interview
last night praised President Roosevelt
frankness in his budget message, ou'
suggested he carry that stralgnt-1or-
wardness still further and give congress
in intimate detair' the breakdown OF
all emergency expenditures.
Vandenberg emphasized he 1ound ne
quarrel with the President, but thougn'
Congress had the right to know Jus'
where all of the huge outlays Tor re-
lief and other purposes were going
particularly "in view OF the TACT tht
President himself says there has beer
no audit for 10 months.
II am not objecting to the fund!
spent for relief" he said, but we ought
to know how much has been spent 1ol
bureaucracy to run the relief.
Vandenberg said the country coule
stand a public debt of S32, 900 900 ,O0(
by 1886. provided both ordinary anc
emergency budgets are balanced then
Il hope the administration" he SAID
won't find itself mistaken IN 1886 a.
in 1884. when the budget message Il
compared with the Presidents message
of last March saying we can balance INT
budget this year."
Declaring the call to the Republican
Party today was mot partisanship, ou
vigilance" The Michigan Senator SAX
| he stood with Mr.. Roosevelt's Statement
of last March that too often in hlstor!
| liberal governments were wrecked OF
loose fiscal policy.