Milford chronicle., 1934-04-27
HOUSE APPROVES
$l,5OO,OOO.OOPLAN
FOR AID TO IDLE
EContinued from Firm Paa1l

II. McGOVern, Democrat, Wllllam
DUPONT, Republican; Kent county,
Charles B. Brown. Democrat: Wal
lace S. Handy, Republican; Sussex
county, Henry B. Mitchell, Demo-
crat; Frank J. Hurley, Republican.
The vote in the House was % in
favor of il and against it. The
members who opposed the act were
Representatives English. McCabe.
Owens. Phillips. Thompson. Wheat
ley, Wilson and Speaker Robinson,
all Sussex Democrats, except Mr..
Wilson who is a Kent Republican.
The members voting for the bill
were: Representatives Abrahams.
Bennett. Bonham. Cleaver. Dugan,
Eaton, Elliott, Ford, Green, Hop
kins. Hughes. Jackson. Jones, Kelly.
KeltOn. Nlinner. Outten. POOre.
Price. Pryor. Rees. Scott. Simon.
Representatives Burris. Jester and
Van Solver were absent. There is
one vacancy in the House member
ship.
Financing Method
The most important amendment
which was introduced by Represen-
tative Rees changes the plan of
providing the money with which to
finance the relief program. The
original act set mp fund of ST.
500,00O which was to have been ere
ated by a bond issue in this Sum
which bond issue was to have been
authorized under separate bill
which had been introduced by Rep
resentative Simon. The ReCs amend
mcnt provides that the fund shall
be created by the transfer of S750,0Oh
from the fund of the State Highway
Department and $75O.0nO from the
fund of the State Board of Ednca- !
tiOn. the moneys so transferred tu he |
deposited in what will hC known as |
the Works Relief Fund" The mon |
ey from the school fund will he So
cured by divCrtinG from it the pro-
ceeds from the franchise tax until |
the total reaches S750.000.
Mr.. Rees stated the original hill
was dependent upon tho successful
passage of the bill to authorize the
bond issue which hill would have
required % votes and he admitted
il was impossible to get - of the
House members to agree to support
o bond issue. Because of this il was
decided at the last minute to change
the plan of financing the program
by taking the money from the high
way and school funds thereby max
ing il possible to pass the bill with
only majority vote in the House, or
Is.
Economist Heard
Professor NJ. NJ. Daugherty, econ
umist at the University of Delaware,
informed the House Wednesday at
ternOOn that at present there is a
balance of $3.900,n00 in the school
fund and that OH January ]. 1855.
the highway fund WI have an uh-
expended balance of $3S3.r00. He
pointed out that under the law C,'e-
ating the State Highway Department
that hoard has the authority to is
sue bonds to finance any work it I'M
dertakes. and that these hCuds Can
lie issued without any legislative ac-
tion to authorize this action. He eN-
planned that should the highway
fund become exhausted the depart
ment has full authority To issue
bonds in sum necessary to finance
whatever projects it may have ,
adopted.
REPRESENTATIVE Simon questioned
the legality of taking any muney ,
from the highway fund. claiming the '
fund itself cannot he touched AMI
that il would he necessary to divert |
revenues going into that fund T." /
provide the &750.O00. Stewart lynch. I
II 4 L.. lsat
any fund not restricted by ronsti- b
tutional limitations can he iii poSed I
uf nv legislative action and that TIC
legislature could set up an appro- I
priatiOn from any fund not so limit 5;
ed :
The amendment was adopted - I" |
& Representatives English. Met ahc. y
Outten. Owens. Phillips. POOrc. I
and Wilson voting against a
it,
Three More Amendments j.
Mr. Jackson introduced three :
all of which were
to- correct typographical err a
rors in the hill or omissions i'm typ .
ing. He submitted another which h
added new paragraph and which
specified that the amount to he paid f;
for labor on any project in Will y
shall he established by I'M
animous agreement of the two COM :
missiOners in charge of relief in u
hat city. This provision is in the T
bill for the three counties hut had II
been omitted in reference to Will v
nington This was adopted. l.
Another amendment he offered
added another new section to the +
bill and specified that when the two fc
for any district have "
agreed on work project they shall :,
lie with the commission as whole
budget setting forth the sum of il
money necessary for the work and II
he commission shall allocate that
ium to the district. Mr.. Jackson eX- eI
planned this was designed to make tn
possible immediate payment of all
ills. This amendment was adopted. ri
Another important amendment
ldopted makes it possible for the II
to give aid to the farm vi
RS. This section reads: 1.-THE com W
nissioners shall adopt rules and reg
lations providing for the rendering be
f aid to any farmer or farmers resi- r.
ent of the county and in need of
ssistance, the commissioners hav-
ne full power and discretion to deal c,
nth any applicant seeking relief un- r
er this authorization as the needs
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