Evening star., 1935-01-26
PRESIDENT SLATED
TO CONTROL FUND
Roosevelt Is Expected to
Handle $4,000, 900, 900
Works-ReIief Program.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Assurances that President Roosevelt
will personally administer the $4,000
100000 work relief fund were given
today by high administration au-
thority.
AS if in reply to congressional oppo-
sition to continuing Secretary Ickes as
the public works director, word came
that the President will do the job
himself, dealing through existing
Government agencies and allocating
funds as he believes necessity dictates.
This information was made avail
able Just as Senate Republicans gath
cred to discuss the big money bill,
which includes also $3.50, 100000 of
direct relief cash in addition to the
work relief fund.
Advisory Group Expected.
Authoritative spokesmen said presi-
dental direction and ALLEGATION would
mean that Ickes, who handled the
first public works money, presumably
will be in charge of only those funds
given his department by the President.
The same would apply to Harry l..
Hopkins, Federal emergency relief ad-
miniStrator.
It was believed that in all probabil-
ity the President will have an advis-
ory group-composed possibly of cabi-
1RE hut lilyo1xy Of tonhTiPol
experts-to make recommendations on
the ALLEGATION of the funds.
No new set-up would be made except
for the advisory group.
Senator McNary of Oregon, the
minority leader, who summoned the
Republican conference, advocated call
ing Secretary Ickes and Relief Ad-
ministrator Hopkins before the APP
preparations Committee to ask them
how the money would be spent.
Meanwhile Senator Robinson Of
Arkansas, the Democratic leader, pre-
dicted the bill would be passed, though
he foresaw quite a contest with
many amendments being offered.
McNary said:
McNary Wants Plans Barred.
eve want to find out what they
have done and what they are going to
do. We want Ickes and Hopkins and
the National Resources Board to tell
us about their plans for the future"
Many Senators are known to be
determined that Ickes, who handled
the $4,000, 100000 public works fund,
shall not have any major role in the
new work-relief agency. They hope
to put through an amendment requir-
ing that the official the President
designates to handle the fund must
be confirmed by the Senate.
begin Monday.
The measure, as it passed the House
Thursday, would give the President au-
thority to revamp emergency agencies
and create new co-ordinating set-up
to take 100000 employables off the
relief rolls and put them to work
through a $4,88O,00o,O00 lump-sum
fund.
An indication of the Senate oppo-
sition to the vast powers given the
President developed in debate yester-
day when Senator Couzens, Republic
an, of Michigan, renewed his attack
on the author of the measure. He
had declared Thursday the man who
drafted the bill should be hanged, not
in efigy but physically"
Il understand" Couzens said, that
the President denies the authorship,
according to the press; but under
stand that the real author Is MIR. John
Richberg donald Richberg is head of
the Emergency CounciD and Benny
Cohen (attorney for P. w. A. and one
of the so-called brain trusters)."
Couzens said I'VE have orders to pass
the $4,000, 100000 bill"
Glass Shows Discomfort.
Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, who will handle the bill in
the Senate, asked Couzens about the
orders and then added:
You have orders, but I'm not in
that class"
While Glass declined to discuss the
measure for publication, he has indi-
Gated he did not favor the broad
power it delegates the President.
Hearings, he said, probably would
begin Monday.
Senator La Toilette, Wisconsin Pro-
greSsive, announced he was going to
offer an amendment to increase the
total Of the bill to probably $10,000,-
o00,000s