The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
HOUSING FUNDS
ARE OMITTED
Roosevelt Fails to List
Money for Co-0rdinator
of Transportation.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times SDecjaI Writer

WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.-Items
omitted from President Roosevelt's
1887 budget caused as much COM
ment today as items included in it.
No funds are provided for admin
isterlng the Potato Act. The Admin
istration opposed the act from the
beginning, but its political oppon-
entS, ignoring this fact, enlisted
wealthy women to grow potatoes on
their formal terraces as the basis
for Boston Tea Party" potato re-
bellion. The Presidents answer is
a recommendation, emphasized by
its position in the final paragraph
OF his message, that the act be
amended along lines suggested by
the Department of Agriculture.
Nothing, of course, is included for
immediate payment of the bonus. In
a cryptic paragraph, well under
stood by members of Congress, the
President warns that "as we emerge
from the depression no new activi-
ties should be added to the govern
ment unless provision is made for
additional revenue to meet their
cost
Nothing for NRA
Nothing is included for NRA, old
or new.
No funds are provided for hous-
ing
No provision is made for con-
tlnuing the Office of Federal Co
ORIGINATOR of Transportation The
act under which Joseph B. East
man is now occupying this office ex-
pires next June. Considerable op-
position to making it permanent
exists in Congress, and the orig
inal Administration plan apparently
has been dropped.
No funds for the ReSettlement
Administration are included. The
work will go on. financed from last
years work-relief appropriation
But by leaving it out of the budget
the President has prevented Con-
greSSional verdict this session on
Administrator Rex Tugwell.
Nothing is included in the budget
to carry out the congressional man
date, adopted in the last minute
rush of the last session, requiring
the Secretary of Agriculture to
spend rrroximately 100000, 900 a
year for encouraging expectation
and domestic consumption of agri-
cultural commodities The Presi-
dent suggests this should be re-
pealed.
Direct Relief Stopped
No funds are provided for FERA,
making it clear that the President
does not intend to resume direct
Federal relief. No provision is
made for the National Emergency
Council, the New Deal co-ordinat-
ing agency formerly presided over
by Frank Walker
The Public Works Administration
gets no new appropriations. 1t will
continue. apparently, to administer
revolving funds already set up out
of relief appropriations, making
loans and grants to states and cities
only as the revolving fund provides
cash.
On the other hand Comptroller
General McCarl. whose adverse rul-
ings have hampered many New Deal
projects is allowed an extra $780,
600 for 1887.
j. Edgar Hoover's G-men get an
additional 100000 to hire l43 addi-
tional workers in headquarters ara
las field employees.
The secret service gets an extra
$225 900 to fight counterfeiters.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission and Federal Power
Commission get substantial in
creases to administer the new Utili-
ties Act. and the Department of
Justice gets extra funds to push the
legal fight for this and other New
Deal measures.