Evening star., 1939-04-01
(RoH Call on Page A-1f.)

By the Associated Press.
New Deal Senators today forecast
a determined effort to restore the
$50 100000 which the House cut yes
terday from the additional $3.50 OO0.-
900 asked by President Roosevelt to
finance the w. P. A. until July /.
Some economy advocates said,
however, the s100,000,000 which the
House voted late yesterday, 290 to
ITO, was acceptable to them. There
were indications this amount might
be approved by the Senate Appro-
priations Subcommittee, which Sem
ator Adams, Democrat, of Colorado
called to meet at 10 am. today.
Senator Adams said no time would
he lost in getting the relief bill to
the Senate floor. Some members
said it might be ready for con-
sideration either Monday or Tuesday.
Acting swiftly after the House
voted, the w. p A. modified by
100000 last night its order that
100000 persons be dropped from re-
lief rolls next week.
100000 Cut in Rolls.
Col. F. c. Harrington. w. P. A.
chief. said this meant employment
for 100000 persons during April,
as compared with 100000 in March.
Even if sl50.0O00OO had been ap-
propriated, he added, the work re-
lief agency would have reduced its
rolls by 100000 in April.
On the District. the rolls are
being reduced from 1890 to
10,890; in Maryland. the cut
schedule is from $4,000 to IA
05O, and in Virginia the reduce
ton is from 10000 to 27,240D
The original reduction order was
put out, officials said, on the as
sumption Congress might refuse to
grant any funds to supplement the
$725 100000 appropriated in Febru-
ary after the President had said
1915 900 900 was needed.
The House vote for an additional
$100, ,000, 900 came after the chamber
had refused, 161 to Ill, to cut the
amount to $55,000,0 and turned
down, 205 to 156, proposal to raise
it to the administration figure Of
$3.50 100000.
On the final count. 218 Demo-
Gratis, 68 Republicans, l Farm
Laborite, American-Laborite and
Progressives voted for the appro-
priation, while 81 Democrats and
80 Republicans voted against it.
Care for Needy Seen.
Representative Woodrum. Dem.
ocrat. of Virginia said the sum ap.
proved. although lower than the
President asked, did not mean adj
equate care would be denied the
needy. 1t did mean. he said, that
the w. P. A. should cut down its
administrative expenses and spend
this money in such way that every
dollar will reach the people who
need it,"
On the other side. Representative
Marcantonio, American Labor, Of
New York and other advocates Of
larger appropriation insisted that
not to grant all the w. P. A. asked
would mean suffering and want for
thousands of needy.
Involved in the relief fight were
bitter feelings engendered by the
earlier House struggle over demands
of members from rural areas that
$3.50 .000, 900 be appropriated for
parity payments, designed to raise
the purchasing power represented
in certain farm products to the
pre-war level.
House members from city districts
offered to trade their support for
the parity payments in return for
promises from farm State Repre-
sentatives of support for sl50,000, 900
for relief. Few promises were given
and the parity fund was defeated.
Some legislators said a desire for
vengeance on the part of farm Rep
resentatives contributed to the re-
lief slash.
Whether the struggle between
farm and city men would carry
over into the Senate was a ques-
ton that worried some leaders.
An indication that the relief con-
troversv might deVeloD hitter feel