The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-03

BY RICHARD L. HARDNESS
United Press staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, M a + c h
3.-The New Deal with
all it's "spending-masters
general" doing their utmost
was able in 1885 to dis
pose of only one-third of
the $4,88O,OOO,0OO work.
relief appropriation, the
Republican National Com
mittee said today in quoting
a purported Suppressed re-
port" to Congress.
Publication of digest of the
report said to have been made by
President Roosevelt, conceded
with release by the New Deal of a
condensed account of the Pres
ident's stewardship since 1888
showing all but $311, 6O6,OOO of the
work-relief appropriation had
been distributed" up to Dec. 81,
1885.
The Republican committee as
serted two copies of the report
have been filed with the Senate
and House committees on ap-
preparations showing that more
than $3,000,000,O00 remained on
Dec. 81 to be expended from the
work-relief fund by June 80, 1886,
under provisions of the Federal
Emergency Relief Act of 1885.
THIS report, it said, was made
Il by the President before the
10th of January as required by
the act, but for some unex-
planned reasons has never been
published nor made accessible to
the press
Quoting from the current is
sue of its facts and opinions"
the committee statement said:
"Of the $4,800000,O appropri-
ated by Congress last session to
enable the President to carry on
his Federal relief program in all
its phases, only $1,672, 1894, 306.18
actually had been expended,
Dec. 81, 1885. The relief appro-
priations act was signed by the
President April 1885: the
funds apprOpri6, n
mediately available ana to re-
main available until June 80, 1886.
This means" the committee
said, that in the e-months pc
Rod ended Dec. 81, last, and
President and all his spending
masters general doing their ut
most, were able to spend only one
third of the amount which Con-
gress appropriated, and that there
remained at the disposal of the
President for expenditure during
the remaining six months of the
period covered by the act.
two-thirds of the total relief ap-
preparation"
The statement said that mot
withstanding the requirement of
law" the Presidents accounting
of spending of relief billions has
been held under lock and key,
and still is withheld from the
public and from most Senators
and congressman"
MOST of the spending agencies
1Vk set up to relieve distress and
unemployment have been unable
to function efficiently, and the
majority have begged down with
a surplus of funds which they
know not how to use, the COM
mittee said.
The statement listed work-re-
lief expenditures shown in the re-
port as 1894, 047, 582 by the FERA;
1927, ass, 343 by the CCC; $685.
147,315 by PWA, and less than
$50,000,000 by any other spending
agency.
"All this means" the committee
said, that the spending program
of the Administration, other than
through Harry Hopkins and the
Civilian Conservation Corps, has
all but collapsed. The money is
not being spent"
The Republican statement pre-
coded the expected request of
President Roosevelt for $2000,000,-
900 to carry on work-relief for the
fiscal year beginning July l. The
125-page Administration report of
stewardship made no mention of
probable 1887 relief needs.
The Administration report was
issued at the start of the 1886
presidential election campaign,