Evening star., 1936-08-30
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improper receptacles, but said pub
lie record of every loan or land pur-
chase is being kept in court, house
or Government building, and is avail
able at all times.
James r. Roads Of the Mail and
Files Section of r. A. was named by
the Republican press statement as
author Of the report which was dated
June Is, 1896.
The report shows" the press state
inent said, among other things, that
notes representing money loaned by
the New Deal in many instances have
been stolen or mislaid, that millions
of dollars worth of this paper are
carelessly stored in firetraps and that
the obligations have been treated by
Federal employees as just so much
waste paper"
The blast against the Tugwell
agency was one item Of weekend
indictment of New Deal policies and
campaign practices.
Representative Bacon Of New York,
vice chairman Of the Republican Con-
gressional Campaign Committee ac-
cused the New Deal of trying to
coerce employees to vote the New Deal
ticket In November. He said COM
mittee engaged in an effort to influ-
ence employees to deliver" their en-
ployers was headed by Senator Clark
Of Missouri.
Farley Is Challenged.
The Republican National Commit
tee, in a second press statement. chal-
lenged the assertion Of James A. Far
ley, Democratic national chairman.
that Gov. ALT NJ. Landon in his re-
cent campaign tour in the East had
made votes for President Roosevelt.
Another press release of the COM
mittee undertook to reply to Senator
Robinson's defense of the New Deals
spending policies. 1t was only natu-
raj, the committee replied, that Sem
ator Robinson should approve the
New Deals fantastic fiscal policies"
as his State, Arkansas, had greatly
profited in New Deal booty"
In return for contribution to the
Federal Treasury in the last three
years Of less than sl0,000,000, the
Federal Government has passed along
to Arkansas in the form of direct
grants, allotments, Federal loans and
guaranteed private loans up to March
81, 1885, total of 5000, ,730, ,943, the
statement said.
The national committee backed up
It's summary of the findings of DR..
Tugwell's investigator with quotations
from the report.
The survey on which the report is
based" the committees statement
said, was ordered by Dr.. Tugwell to
determine what was happening to the
loan paper, without which the New
Deal will never be able to recover the
money it has advanced.
No Check on Papers Charged.
1.-THE report is filled with instances
sof chaos, and worse, in every section
.of the country in the offices charged
swith keeping check on the bor-
srowers Scores of offices, the report
Says, have no check whatever on the
spapers vital to any subsequent suit by
sthe Government to collect the money.
/. Important papers dealing with the
sGovernment's claims against borrow
sers are left in unlocked desks or filing
.cabinets permitting any dishonest
sclerk, or interested outsider, to steal
sentire files on any loan.
7 THE report said important papers
shad been scattered through several
soffices in the same city, making it
Unnecessary often that four or five people
sbe assigned to look up all documents
son one case.
: Fire hazards were particularly dan
sgerous, the report said, naming Offices
swhich we're housed in old buildings
scalled fire traps by the fire prevention
sauthorities"
.(Copyrieht 1886 by the New York Herald
. Tribune0