Evening star., 1935-02-03
Row Forces Committee to
Delay Conference Set
for Monday.
COMPLETE REVISION
OF BILL is PREDICTED
Republicans Will Act Independ-
emily, Looking to Conservatives
to Aid Amendments.
BY the Associated Press.

by Iue hSSOCldLcu fIcsS.
A secret conference of Senate Ap-
propriations Committee Democrats
yesterday was marked by such con-
flict over the administrations S4,-
$50, 100000 work-relief bill that the
scheduled meeting of the full COM
mittee tomorrow to report the meas
ure was postponed.
Rarely has meeting Of a Senate
committee been SO carefully guarded
as the Democratic parley yesterday.
Some of the Senators refustG even
to admit they had attended a meet
ing. But out of it all came reports of
a complete collapse of efforts to reach
accord.
In one sense the result symbolized
the general situation. At the Capt.
tol, as Congress headed into its sec
ond month. little has been accom-
plished despite the huge Democratic
majorities in both houses.
G. o. P. Take Hands Of.
The Democratic meeting on the re-
lief bill yesterday was held after Re-
publican members of the committee
abandoned their plan to act as group
in consideration of the measure.
After their meeting, the Demo-
Gratis made public the testimony at
the executive hearings on the relief
bill, disclosing for the first time new
details of the program and showing
how completely the administration
Tended off committee efforts to learn
where the money would go.
Admiral Christian j. Peoples, the
chief witness at the hearings, testi-
fed individual items would be drawn
from huge reservoir of desirable
projects" amounting in all to S32.-
600, 100000, but that no specific prof.
ects had been selected in advance.
Inquirers Referred to Glass.
The Democratic members of the
committee gathered in the Office of
Chairman Glass of the Appropriations
Committee yesterday and were in ses-
sion more than two hours AS they
broke up the members who admitted
there had been meeting referred all
questions to Senator Glass.
Newspaper men waiting for Glass
and Senator Byrnes. Democrat. of
South Carolina, who stayed behind
with Glass, never got chance to talk
to either, as they slipped out of a
side door.
One of the Democrats, however,
said that, while he could not be quot
ed. there was a great divergence of
view. Another. who also did not wish
his name used, predicted the bill
would be completely redrafted from
beginning to end
The publication Of the hearings bill
also disclosed many ritical comments
from committee members, although
the bill had its defenders.
Sales Plan Challenged.
Peoples suggested the Government
could sell gasoline along the high
ways from which it could derive pro-
fits.
Senators O'Mahoney of wyoming
and Truman of Missouri, both Demo-
Gratis, suggested this would put the
Government into competition with
private business. Peoples later ex-
planned that the gasoline could be sold
through concessions along the high
ways.
Peoples told the committee "the
whole bill anticipates that this will
be the last needed stimulation of busi-
ness, will break the back" of the de-
preston.
He testified segregation of items in
the program was clearly impossible
because the fund must be kept flexible
But, pressed by committeeman. on his
third day of testimony, he finally gave
this general break down of classifica-
tions within the reservoir" from which
projects might be selected:
How Fund Is Divided.
Slum clearance and urban housing
$1,000, 100000.
Rural housing, $4,000, 900 900.
Grade crossings, $4,000, ,000, 900 up.
National highways, $4,000, 900, 1000.
Rural electrif1cation, $500, 900, 900.
Reforestation, submarginal lands
$3.50, 900, 900.
Soil erosion, 100000, 900.
Special Federal projects, $3.50. .0OO, 900.
Community sanitation and health
control, $125. 100000.
Non-Federal projects, $7,5OO,OO 900
Rivers and harbors, $4,000, 100000.
Stream pollution. $3.50, 100000.
Committee members sought to find
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