Evening star., 1935-08-27
Filibuster Kills
Appropriation
oflO2 Million.
PLOT CHARGED
TO PRESIDENT
LOuisianan Says
Farmers Given
DOuble-CrOss.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Seventy-Fourth Congress is
gone in a whirl of strife-not to re-
turn to Washington until next jan
uary. Its first session, almost eight
months long, ended at midnight last
night
Today the administration is casting
about to see where, If possible, funds
may be found to set in motion the
operation of the economic security act
and other activities provided for in
the third deficiency appropriation bill.
This measure was talked to death by
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana.
1t carried in all about Sl02 ,000, 900, OF
which $76,000,000 was earmarked for
the economic security act administra.
ton, with its old-age pensions and
other benefits.
Long, a bitter enemy of the Presi-
dent. in his hlibuster against the de-
ficiency bill last night charged that
the wheat farmers had been thrown
overheard and that the President and
Senators had entered into a conspir-
acy to prevent a vote in the House on
the cotton and wheat loan amendment
to the deficiency bill.
Deaf to All Pleas.
He turned a deaf ear to all pleas
and threats. Charges that he was
preventing the aged and the crippled
from getting the money provided for
them under the economic security bill
ran of his back like water of a
ducks. Long held the floor against
all comers until midnight arrived and
the Vice President declared the Ses-
sion at an end. The House, which
in the hope that the Senate might
still take action on the deficiency bin
had turned its clock back, then also
adjourned
A compromise" agreement between
the President and the cotton Senators
entered into after long conferences
yesterday, under which the cotton
farmers are to have 10 cents pound
loans on cotton instead of cents
and are to be paid the difference be-
tween their selling price and II cents
q pound, made possible adjournment.
The wheat State Senators received
nothing. The proposed Government
loans of 80 cents bushel on wheat,
carried in the Senate amendment to
the deficiency bill, were thrown into
the discard.
Appropriated S1O.25O, ,O0O. 900.
The Congress IN the session just
closed has demonstrated its spending
sbility-the greatest total appropria-
tions and authorizations ever made in
a single congressional session in peace
times. The appropriations reach the
Stupendous sum of $10,250, 900, ,000
The second session of the Seventy
third Congress, the first New Deal
Congress, appropriated approximately
$500 100000. Even when the S2,000,-
10000 gained by the Government
through the devaluation of the gold
dollar and then appropriated for the
exchange stabilization fund is added
to this sum, the total appropriations
for that session fall considerably be-
low those for the fiscal year 1896.
Although the President has found
1t necessary to compromise" here and
there with Congress, as he did yes
terday on the cotton loans, he has been
uniformly successful in obtaining the
passage of his bills to carry forward
the New Deal program.
The griSt of the session now closed
was heavy with legislation of far
reaching import. Standing among
these measures are the economic Sc
curity act, with its old-age pensions
and insurance against unemployment:
the banking act Of 1885 designed to
give the Government greater control
over the credit facilities of the Ma
ton; the public utility holding COM
pany act, with its modified death
sentence" clause, and the Presidents
'share-the- wealth" tax act, something
new in the revenue laws of the coun.
try.
Neutrality Bill damned Through.
Driven forward by the fear of
America being involved in the war
threatened between Italy and Ethio-
pia, Congress jammed through in its
(See ADJOURNMENT pooe s1