Evening star., 1935-12-26
ROOSEVELT FACES
FIRE ON TWO SIDES
Liberty League and G. 0. P.
Send Broadsides Against
Administration.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Roosevelt administration was
again under fire today from the
American Liberty League and the Ma
tional Republican Congressional Com
mittee.
From the league came a call for
q 12-point constitutional recovery
program, designed to put the Govern
ment's house in order" and check
the trend toward dictatorship"
The Congressional Com m ittee
charged relief money was being used
"to build up the New Deal political
machine"
Gigantic Waste" Assailed.
In outlining its program, the league
attacked Democratic legislation and
policies, aSsailed gigantic waste" and
demanded q balanced budget and
sound" monetary system. A state
ment asserted the league would con-
tinue to oppose measures which con-
tribute to the overthrow Of our form
Of Government"
It proposed Congress carry out the
following program:
| l. Reduce expenditures to the level
Of Treasury receipts.
2. A moderate" appropriation for
direct relief for limited period, with
provision thereafter for loans to
States.
3. Stop 'boondoggling, but continue
program of productive" public
works on greatly reduced" scale.
4. Revise revenue laws which are
aimed at redistribution Of wealth,
broaden present base Of taxation and
slash expenditures to permit. the
lowering Of taxes"
| S. Plan for revision Of monetary
laws "along sound lines" and reject
infiationary currency proposals and
measures extending political control
over the banking system"
Economic Planning Opposed.
8. Refuse to extend or re-enact N.
R. A, defeat all economic planning"
measures and pass bills necessary to
withdraw Government from compe-
tition with private business"
Z. Repeal death sentence" In the
utility holding company act and curb
activities of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority "in so far as they encroach
upon the field Of private industry"
8. Study and amend the social Sc
curity act, which 'infringes upon con-
stitutional limitations" postponing
meanwhile the imposition of taxes to
pay unemployment insurance and old
age pensions.
9. Amend agricultural adjustment
act with q view to elimination Of
methods in conflict with the Consti-
tuition" and repeal the potato control
act.
10. Revise reciprocal tariff act to
require congressional ratification Of
trade treaties negotiated by the Presi-
dent.
II. Investigate "entire field of exec
utive usurpation of legislative power"
and overhaul "the vast bureaucracy
created by executive order"
IL. Oppose constitutional amend
ments which would overthrow the
dual form Of government or break
down the division Of authority among
the executive. legislative and judicial
branches"
Relief Held as Club.
The Congressional Committee as
serted that Gin innumerable instances
people have been challenged to vote
the New Deal or be denied relief
money"
The Kentucky election last Fall. the
committee said, was marked by the
spending during the preceding 10 days
Of "$42. 900 900 in relief money"
within the State.
States having Democratic Gov
ernors who denounced the vagaries Of
the New Deal" 1t continued. were
J threatened deliberately and cold
heartedly with being cut of from re-
ceiving relief funds. There are Gov.
Talmadge Of Georgia and Gov. Davey
of Ohio as examples. And there was
also the late Senator Huey P. Long"
Recalling the 1884 congressional
campaign, the committee asserted that
Chairman Farley of the Democratic
National Committee had tried to i'm
press on people who had unwittingly
been made pawns in his reelection
game, that relief money came only
through the beneficence of President
Roosevelt"
The statement also charged that
Federal workers were exploited
through solicitation of campaign funds,
"prohibitory laws Notwithstanding"