The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-16
RELIEF FIGHT IS
 BEFORE SENATE
Appropriation Sub-Cofl- mittee Must Decide on
 Increase or Decrease
BY RONALD c, VAN TINE United Press Stan Correspondentl

BY RONALD G, VAN TINE United Press Stan Correspondent
 Washington, Jan. 16.--(Up "A senate appropriations sub commit tee took up today the houses S725,- 100000 deficiency relief appropria. tion and there were strong indica- tions that administration attempts to increase it to $875 100000 would be defeated.
 The house passed the bill after Q coalition of Republicans and anti new deal Democrats successfully re- belled against the higher figure re- quested by President Roosevelt to continue the Works Progress Admin. istration until July l.
 Senate advocates of drastic cur- tailment of government expenditures may attempt to make an even deep- CT cut in the appropriation. Plans also have been made to try to write into the measure more stringent re- strictions on the political activity of relief officials and workers.
 Urges Leaders To Hold
 MT. Roosevelt urged his legislative leaders at their usual Monday morn ing conference at the White House to make every effort to restore the original sum. But Senate Majority Leader Alben w. Barkley, D, Ken lucky, and Vice-President Garner probably will report that the admin istrations greatest cause for con- cern should be prevention of a fur ther cut.
 The subcommittee which will do the senate's preliminary work on the bill is headed by Senator Ava B. Adams, D., Colorado, who has call- ed Col. F. c. Harrington, acting WPA administrator, as first witness to outline the agency's needs. Har- rington will plead for restoration of the $150,000,000 cut made by the house.
 q feel that $725, 100000 is all that he should appropriate at this tine,' Adams said. we should proceed OH the theory that things are g citing better, not worse"
 will Not Discuss It
 Most members of the committee declined to discuss the amour of relief money they would favor. But Senator Joseph c. O'Mahoney, D., Wyoming, said he would not join any movement that has as its ob- jective the initiation of an economy program at the expense of those on relief.
 Chairman of the full 'ppropria- tions committee, which probably will approve the subcommittee recom- mendations, is Senator Garter Glass, D., Virginia, consistent foe of the administrations spending policies. He was represented as believing that SIPS ,000, 900 was more than needed by WPA to continue its work after the first of next month when pres- ent funds will be depleted.
 Aliens Are Hit
 AS approved by the house, the bill would deny relief to aliens who have not applied for citizenship papers, reduce tho scope of wage dif- ferentials paid by the WPA ir the north and the south and bar pay ment of salaries to WPA officials and employees attempting to- influ- ence the vote of relief recipients.
 The issue of political activity by relief officials was raised again over the weekend by the special senate committee in unemployment ane re- lief, which recommended broad changes in the social security relief and public works programs.
 It recommended making it a felony for any persons to influence WPA workers for political gain. It proposed creation of department of public works to absorb WPA, PWA, eco, and the national youth administration and it would estab- fish a rigid formula-based on a states total population and total unemployed-for allocation of fed- eral funds states would provide one- third of the cost of all relief and public works projects