The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
|ReiefCosts To Reach
 Ne1v High For Nation
Over $2 OOO, ,OOO More Than Last Year=COnn. to Have 100000 Persons on Relief Rolls, With Costs of
 $6,0OO,O0O Above Previous Figure

Illinois 900.000 unemployed are gradually becoming welfare bur- dens as their bank accounts shrivel away, official report. 1t Is expected the relief needs there will approximate $125,000,000 compar- ed with 06,000,000 in 1884. Min. I nesota, carrying along many drought-stricken counties, spent $27,757.235 last year and may ex- pend $54,564,760 this year. owa, hopeful of rising farm prices, is confronted with rising relief costs over 1894, when 1t spent $11,002,- 900. An estimated $26,000, 00( was turned over to Kansas relief last year. antdhe relief load is now heavier than its December load of 105.703 persons.
 The state of Ohio, with indica- tions that relief is showing pro gressive increase" expects it's re- lief burden to amount to $126,- 262,384 in taking care of 1885, GOO persons.
 Missouri heads the states opti- mistic over present and future re- lief burdens. ts 1894 peak was
 156,593 cases and for the year the
 state spent $46,574,o2o on relief.
 "The case load should increase
 to 130,000 by June and, if crops
 are fair, should not go over that figure for the latter part of July" Wallace Crossley, administrator of
 the Missouri relief and reconstruc- ] tion commission, said.
 Conflict of Opinion
 Conflict of opinion regarding New Yorks relief problems leaves that state in the doubtful column, although for the month of Febru- ary. 1885, 1t expended $22,S00, 900 more money than the states of New Mexico and Wyoming contem- plate spending this year. New York spent $217,951,S35 on an average of 519,278 persons during 1884, the TERRA reported, adding that recent load increases are be- ginning to decline. This trend Is disputed by the Mayors commit tee on unemployment relief.
 The following states, predicting no change in relief costs, with their 1884 load and expenditures: Colorado, 22,000 on relief at $26,- 802,239; Maine, 75.809 at $10,- 800, 900; Massachusetts, ,450,000 at $23, 3,000,000; Michigan, $60,000,- 900 for 600, 900 or more: Missip- pi, $14,712.359 for 100000 per- sons Utah, $9.490,000 on 110,- 700, and Louisiana, $32.S50,379 for 383250 persons. Officials in Louisiana do not estimate possible change.
 Compromise Relief Bill Washington. April 4.-(UP)-A gleam of hope appeared today for New Deal leaders who for more than two months have been trying to push their $4,88O,000,000 work relitf bill through q stubborn sem ate. It was indicated a compromise reahced late yesterday would per- init final enactment of the meas ure. Leaders were heartened by a decision last night of house and senate conferees to continue dis cussions today.
 It was reported that the basis for settlement was a face-saving device for the administration and a part victory for the truclent Sen. CdTlSE SidS5s D.p Nds oidoc, SheliT- man of the senate appropriations committee, has been holding out for inclusion of Language which would prevent the government from using work-relief money to purchase electric power plants. To do that Glass championed an amendment requiring that one third of loans or grants to states or municipalities be used for "di- rect work'--labor.
 In yesterdays conferences 1t was decided to propose a com promise in which the president would be given the right to deter mine the percentage of money used for labor, but which would retain the one-third requirement.. The new version also would read
 work" instead of direct work" thus saving a legal quarrel over the types of labor which could be in- cluded in the latter classification.