Evening star., 1935-01-08
Specification of Projects by
Congress Continues to
Be Discussed.
LUMP SUM APPROVAL
CONCEDED, HOWEVER
Roosevelt Hint at New Taxes il
Bonus Is Passed Is Found
in Budget Message.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
As Congress went to work today on
the $3.50 100000 budget President
Roosevelt has submitted, Democratic
leaders predicted his s4O0O.000 900
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 today
among some Democrats as we'll as Re-
publicans that Congress should choose
the specific projects on which the
money will be spent instead of giving
it 10 the President in a lump sum to
allot as he sees fit.
There also were expressions of belief
from Western progreSSives that $4,000
O00,C00 will not be enough and that
wages prevailing in industry" should
be paid to relief workers instead OF
the Presidents plan to pay less.
COncede Lump Sum to Pass.
But many Democrats expressed ap-
prOval 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
go through without major change.
Some routine tasks delayed until
Thursday the initial consideration in
the House Of the thing President
Roosevelt wants first. This is the
$3.50 900 900 for immediate relief dur.
ing the dole-to-j 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 l.
100000 'unemployables" to the care
Of the States.
Buchanan Reserves Comment.
Chairman Buchanan. Democrat. Of
Texas. of the House Appropriation
Committee. had reserved until today
his comment on the Presidents budget
proposals:
THE budget for this year-1935-
was SS,58l 100000. For next year it
is $S,520,000 900. Receipts for 1885
will be S3,7l1 100000 Receipts for
1895 will be 1891 10000
THAT shows that the receipts are
going up and the expenditures going
down-not as fast as would like. but
that's an encouraging sign. The re.
ceipts show recovery in the first in
stance and the expenditures economy
in the second.
THE ordinary expenditures of the
Government next year will be, under
this budget. less than the receipts.
That shows that when things pick up,
We can have a balanced budget"
Sees No Alternative.
Although he has a long time record
of opposing lump-sum appropriations,
Congress could do anything else now.
Neither this committee nor all the
committees in Congress working to-
gether could allocate all this money
in time for its expenditure to do any
good" he contended
Yesterdays reaction to the budget
ranged from the remarks of Senator
Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic
leader, that it revealed "a gratifying
situation" to a comment of Represent
ative Smell, Republican floor leader in
the House. who said: 1T looks like
we'll all have a lot of money by
and by"
There was some cloak-room talk
today about one statement in the
Presidents message that escaped par
ticular attention yesterday. He said,
Il do not consider it advisable at this
time to propose any new or additional
taxes for the fiscal year 1885,"
Hint ON Bonus Seen.
Some who preferred not to be quot
ed by name pointed to that as thinly-
veiled hint that if Congress passed the
S2,lO0,O00,O00 bonus, the President
would ask new taxes.
They found additional weight for
that belief in a speech last night by
Speaker Byrns. He said that unless
some exceptional and unforeseen bur-
den develops, don't look for any sub
Stantial change" in taxes.
AS for the administrations social
security program. Senator Robinson,
Democratic leader, has said the Pres
ident probably would send a special
message this week urging unemploy-
ment insurance and old age pensions.
He said 1t would cost the Federal Gov
ernment $l00,000,000 the first year,
with States taking more Of the burden
later.