The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-08
CONGRESS LEADERS
TO SPEED PASSAGE
0FBUDCEY REQUEST
SoIons May Choose Specific
Projects Instead Of Offer
ing Lump Sum
PUSH DOLE TO JOBS PLAN
Routine Tasks Delay considera-
ton Of $3.50, 900, 900 Inn
mediate Relief Fund
PUSH DOLE TO JOBS PLAN

Washington. Jan. S.-R)-As con-
gress went to work Tuesday on the
$s,s2o. 900 budget President Roose.
welt has submitted. Democratic lead
ers predicted his $4,000, O00. 900 plan
to swing from the "dole" to jobs
would 60 through swiftly despite STIR
rings Of criticism in two sectors.
There was still some talk Tuesday,
among some Democrats Is well as
Republicans, that congress should
choose the specific projects on which
the money will be spent instead Of
giving 1t to the president In . lump
sum to allot Is he sees tit.
There also were expressions OF be-
lief from western progressives that
q, 600, 900 900 will not be enough and
that wages prevailing In industry
should be paid to relief workers in
stead Of the presidents plan to pay
less.
Democrats Approve
But many Democrats expressed ap-
prevail Of the plan and with that
party,s majorities SO huge, even the
bitterest opponents Of the lump sum
idea agreed privately that it would
60 through without major change.
Soma routine tasks delayed until
Thursday tho initial consideration II
the house Of the thing President
Roosevelt wants first -This Is TIN
$3.50 900 900 for immediate relief dur.
ing tho dole-to-jobs transition.
Leaders were seeking to get the re.
lief and works proposals out Of the
way before the pressure starts" al.
ready some legislators are receiving
protests about the plan to return
100000 'unemployables" to the care
Of the states.
Chairman Buchanan D-Tex.) Of
the house appropriations committed
had reserved until Tuesday his com.
ment on the presidents budget pro-
posals:
"The ordinary expenditures Of thu
government next year viii be, under
the budget, less than the receipts
That shows that when things picl
up, we can have Q balanced budget
Although he has q longtime rec
ord Of opposing lump sum appropria
tons, Buchanan said he did not sex
how congress could do anything els
now.
/ Reactions Vary
Mondays reaction to the bulge
ranged from the remark Of Senate
Robinson Of Arkansas, Democratic
leader, that 1t revealed "a gratifying
situation" to q comment Of Rer
Smell, Republican floor leader In tn
house, who said: ut looks like wei
all have q lot Of money by and BY"
There was some cloak-room tall
Tuesday about one statement In tn
presidents message that escaped par
ticular attention Monday. He said
Il do not consider 1t advisable .
this time to propose any new or I'd
ditional taxes for the fiscal yea
1884,"
i Some who preferred not to b
quoted by name pointed to that Tues
day o . thinly-veiled hint that !
congress passed the $2.l00, 000.0 90
bonus, the president would ask nev
taxes.
| A. for the Administrations socia
security program. Senator Robinson
Democratic leader, has said the pres
ident probably would send . speeds
message this week urging unemploy
ment insurance and old age pensions
He said It woulc cost the federal gov
Ierment 4l00,O 900 tho first year
with states taking more Of the bur
den later.