Evening star., 1935-03-02
Resentment Grows Over
Effort to Blame Upper
Body for Delay.
ROOSEVELT HIT FOR
Baking COMMITTEE
Wagner Sees Successful Compro.
mise Providing Administration
Gives In a Little.

After do-nothing week. peace be-
tween President Roosevelt and the
Senate over the s48SO, 100000 work
relief bill is still not in sight.
Resentment is rising in the Senate
because of efforts of the administra-
ton to make it appear the delay in
the passage of the relief bill was the
fault of the upper house. Supporters
of the McCarran prevailing wage
amendment, so strongly resisted by
the President pointed out today the
bill could be brought out and passed
without the slightest doubt if the
White House would say the word.
1t is more than week since the
work-relief bill was referred back to
the Senate Appropriations Committee
after the administration had been
defeated in the vote on the McCarran
amendment During that time, the
committee has held no meeting to
consider the bill further. The word
has been passed there will be no meet
ing until the White House has the
situation well in hand and feels it
can pass a satisfactory bill through
the Senate.
Raps White House Control.
Here is a strange situation, it
seems to me-" Senator McCarran.
Democrat, of Nevada. said today. "A
committee of the Senate must await
word from the White House before
it can hold meeting When we
voted to recommit the bill. on motion
of Senator Robinson of Arkansas. it
was with the undertaking that the
committee would hold meeting and
consider this work relief DILL without
delay. Had we understood other
wise the supporters of the prevailing
wage amendment would not have been
so ready to have the bill recomitted"
Senator Dickinson of Iowa, Repub-
lican member of the Appropriations
Committee, described the plight of
the committee as ridiculous"
i never heard before that a Sem
ate committee had to wait the nod
of the President before it could even
hold a meeting" he said.
THE real delay of the relief bill
lies right on the White House door,
step" he continued. The President
sent to Congress an impossible S.
100000 900 measure and he continues
to insist on its passage"
Stands by Prevailing Wage.
Senator McCarran said he was anx-
ious to get action on the relief bill
and that he hoped further conference
would be held today. He is entirely
unwilling to yield the principle of the
prevailing wage, he said.
Democratic hackers of the McCar-
ran amendment decided last night to
make new efforts toward a compro-
mise, the Associated Press reported.
Senator Wagner, Democrat of New
York. whose vote was cast in favor of
the amendment when it won Senate
approval last week, indicated belief
the dispute might be settled today if
the administration forces will give
little"
The legislative jam continued to
grow more serious. The Senate Mon
day will enter its sixth week on the
relief measure which the House dis
posed of the way President Roosevelt
| wanted it in few days. Little can
be done, Senators felt. until this legis-
lation is out of the way.
InsiStent that the States do their
share in providing relief funds, the
Federal Relief Administration mean
! while has informed Minnesota, Idaho
and Washington that their March al
lotments were being held up until they
provide the sums demanded.
Half Grants Allowed.
Ohio, New Jersey, South Dakota and
Wisconsin received grants for only half
the month of March and were told
further allotmentS would depend upon
their agreeing to furnish additional
amounts themselves.
New Jersey was told that future
Federal assistance in providing for
( the States jobless would be condi-
! toned upon State cooperation in ac-
cordance with its ability to contribute.
1t was said, too. that there was
some question about Maryland S
grant"
/ All other States were declared by
Aubrey Williams, assistant relief ad-
miniStrator. to be complying fully with
| the F. E. r. AS demands.
simultaneously the relief admins
| traitor moved yesterday to increase aid
, to drought-Stricken areas Of the mid
West. In Chicago, Harry L. Hopkins,
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