Evening star., 1936-01-05
Budget Details
Are Eagerly
Awaited.
A. A. A. RULING
is EXPECTED
Hastings Attacks
Roosevelt Talk
as "Bitter."
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

With President Roosevelt'S dramatic
annual message back of them, congress
sional leaders planned yesterday to
press forward with two major meas
ures, the new neutrality bill and SOL
diers' bonus bill
The neutrality bill has the blessing
Of the President.
Whether the President will sign
bonus bill is still conundrum, al
though some Of the administration
leaders on Capitol Hill predict he will
do so. among them Senator Robinson,
the majority leader.
The President in the past has indi-
Gated that if a. bill for the immediate
cash payment of the bonus is sent to
him, he will insist that Congress pro-
vide the means for raising the money,
some $4,000, ,000, 900, to make the pay
ment.
Budget Message Awaited.
Tomorrow the President will send
to the Congress his budget message.
He said in his message Friday night
that under these policies (the poll
cies of the Roosevelt administration
we approach a balance of the national
budget" His message dealing with the
finances of the Government during the
fiscal year 1897 are. therefore, awaited
with the keenest interest He eX-
pressed the belief, too, in his annual
message that no new taxes. over and
above the present taxes, are advisable
OF necessary"
The passage of a bonus bill, with
or without his approval, may throw
the budget into disarray, or add ma
terially to the public debt. Much will
depend on whether new taxes are un-
dertaken to raise the needed addi-
tional revenue or whether the Gov
ernment simply borrows the money.
1t has been suggested in some quar-
ters that the President might use
the s2OOO,0Oo,OOO allotted to the
"stabilization fund to care for the
bonus.
While the congressional leaders
made their legislative plans they kept
an ear cooked toward the Supreme
Court. Tomorrow that tribunal re-
assemblies, after the Christmas holi-
day 1t has been generally expected
it will hand down decisions on some
of the New Deal laws, particularly
the A. A A. and its processing taxes.
Substitute A. A. A. Considered.
If the court deals body blow to
the A. A. A. and its processing taxes
1t is believed that the administration
will Immediately take steps to adopt
q substitute plan. 1t has insisted
that the benefit payments to the
farmers, running into hundreds Of
millions of dollars, must go forward
no matter what the court decides.
Reverberations of the Presidents
address to Congress continued to roll
yesterday ana are expected for some
time to come. Generally speaking,
the Republicans denounced the ad-
dress as political effort The Demo-
Gratis, on the other hand. expressed
their pleasure at the address. They
consider that the President has taken
the offensive, has aligned his enemies
with big business. and has extended
again a hand to the little man"
They believe that it is good political
medicine; that it sets the pace for the
coming campaign.
Said Senator Hastings of Delaware,
who has been chairman of the Re-
publican Senatorial Campaign Com
mittee:
1T was bitter speech 1t sounded
like the words of a clever politician
who had his back to the wall.
He spent 20 minutes abusing the
countries of the Old World This was
unnecessary, unbecoming in a Presi-
dent and, in my judgment, extremely
dangerous. If this country is to fol-
low Washington's advice and avoid
foreign entanglements. why should the