Evening star., 1938-05-03
ROOSEVELT ACTS
TO KEEP AID RULE
Protest to Curbing Control
Is So Vigorous Present
Plan May Continue.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
White House objections, an informed
person said today, probably will kill
congressional proposals to restrict the
Presidents discretionary powers over
pump printing" and relief funds.
A spokesman for President Roose-
velt adviserd a House subcommittee,
this informant said, that it would vio-
late the expressed wishes of the Chief
Executive if the practice of appropri-
ating relief money to him we're discon-
to the Works Progress Administration
and other spending agencies.
Subcommittee members virtually
had decided on the latter course as
means of ending blank check" re-
lief expenditures.
So vigorous was the White House
protest. however, that Representative
Woodrum, Democrat. of Virginia, in
charge of drafting the legislation,
said it was probable the present sys-
tenn would be continued. Efforts to in
sert restrictions may be made by
group of Senators, nevertheless.
Wants More Speed.
Some committeeman said the Pres
ident wanted to retain his control over
the ALLEGATION of relief money and the
approval of individual projects in
order to obtain more speed and better
coordination in providing jobs for the
unemployed.
The subcommittee completed hear
ings on the huge spending-lending
program yesterday by receiving in
dorsements from William Green, pres
ident Of the American Federation of
Labor; Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of
New York. head of the United States
Conference of Mayors, and John L.
Lewis, chairman of the Committee for
Industrial Organization.
While the three were calling the
legislation imperative because Of in
creased unemployment. the program
was assailed at the annual meeting of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce by Winthrop w. Aldrich, chair
man of the Chase National Bank of
New York.
by following this course" Mr..
Aldrich said, I'VE are risking our ma
tional solvency, the credit of the Gov
ernment and the future of the cur
rency. We are facing, therefore, the
gravest economic, financial and social
convulsions if it turns out that the
theory is wrong"
New Wage Bill Move.
While the House subcommittee was
trying to complete the spending-lend-
ing bill, hackers of the revised wage
hour measure began a new attempt to
pry that administration proposal from
the House Rules Committee.
An informal steering committee
made up of members of all parties and
headed by Representative Healey,
Democrat, Of Massachusetts,, solicited
promises from legislators to sign a
petition to force the legislation to the
House floor. Chairman Norton, Demo-
crat, of New Jersey, Of the Labor Com
mittee spoke optimistically of getting
the required 218 signatures at once.
Other House leaders, however, said
about half the 80 Republican members
would have to sign to make the petition
effective. A hasty survey, they said,
showed that probably no more than
ITS Democrats would be willing to
sign.
Although a Senate banking subcom-
mittee arranged to discuss elimination
of bank holding companies, there was
considerably more talk than action at
the Capitol on the Presidents anti
monopoly recommendations.