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its obligation to the individual citi-
zen," he said, "and the distribution
of relief money should be made to
the citizens on the basis of need"
Passage of the relief bill cleared
the House decks Of legislation ready
for immediate action, and leaders
expected only routine meetings the
first half of next week.
The Senate faced a busy schedule,
however, having yet to act on the
nominations of Harry L. Hopkins
to be Secretary of Commerce, Prof.
Felix Frankfurter to be member
of the Supreme Court and Fra TX
Murphy to be Attorney General.
Many members of both ma jor par
ties predicted all three nominations
would be confirmed.
Echoes Of Hopkins Quiz.
Echoes of Senate Committees
investigation of Mr. Hopkins quail
fications for the Commerce post
were heard during House debate on
the relief appropriation.
Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican, of Illinois recalled that the
former w. P. A. administrator had
said some w. P. A. supervisors who
had mixed in politics in Kentucky
ought to have been fired" His
statement came during discussion of
the Presidents order to blanket su-
pervisory employees of the work re-
| lief organization into the civil serv-
ice.
Much of the House argument CEN
tered around parliamentary ma
neuver which prevented "a record
vote on the question of reducing the
sum recommended by Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Representative Cannon, Democrat.
of Missouri, who advocated appro-
priating the full s875 900 900, attrib-
uted this maneuver to Representa-
tive Woodrum, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, leader of the Appropriations
Subcommittee which first trimmed
off sl50,000,OO0. Had the trimming
been left up to the full House and
a record vote taken, members sensi-
tive to the votes of relief workers
might have been resistant to cut
! the fund.
I'm not interested in putting any
body in this House on the spot,
Representative Woodrum told his
critics. I'm interested in trying to
accomplish something constructive
with this bill"
Stand Not Recorded.
Representative Canons plea to
appropriate the full amount lost by
a teller vote of 1877 to 226, in which
the stand of individual members
was not recorded. Many Democrats
Joined Republicans to defeat the
Presidents request.
The proposal to limit pay differ
entails, made by Representative
Tarver, Democrat, of Georgia won
over Representative Woodrum's op-
position.
please do not write into this tenn
porary measure restrictions on ad-
mlnlStrative procedure which may
tie up the whole program" the Vir-
ginian said. But the membership
especially Democrats from the
South, shouted approval.
A Republican, Representative Cole
OF New York, put in the first anti
politics amendment, providing for
withholding pay from either officials
or benef1ciaries guilty of trying to
influence a w. P. A. workers vote.
Later the Democrats put through
an amendment by Representative
Voorhis, Democrat, of California
aimed only at political activity of
w. P. A. officials.
Six Democrats and 10 Republicans
voted against the bill as it passed.
The Democrats were: Representa-
tlves Cox, Georgia; Owen, Georgia: ::
Peterson, Georgia; Robertson, Vir-
ginia; Smith, Virginia and West,
Texas.
The Republicans were: Repre-
sentatives Cole, New York: Craw-
ford, Michigan; Hawks, Wisconsin:
Heinke, Nebraska: Mclean, New
Jersey; Reed, New York; Rock efeller
New York; Short, Missouri; Taber.
New York, and Wadsworth, New
York.