PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 17

PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.

DISSENSION OCCURS.

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received December sth, 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 4. The first serious dissension in the present session of Congress occurred upon the transmission by President Hoover of a request for 150,000,000 dollars to b<J appropriated immediately Soi unemployment relief, by spending it on public works, the money to be administered by the President, The request way immediately attacked in both Houses, a demand being made that Congress should indicate how the money should lie spent. It intimated that an amending proposal would be introduced for appropriating SoO.OOO.OOi) dollars to provide work for 1,000,000 men for three months on post roads throughout the nation.

UNITED STATES NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS. EIG BUILDING PROGRAMME. WASHINGTON, December 4. While President Iloover's Budget message allotted to the Navy Department only 28,300,000 dollars for construction in 1032, a reduction of 28,512,000 dollars compared with appropriations for the current fiscal year, it is learned that President lioover has given his tacit approval to a separate 120,000,000 dollars naval construction programme, which will be submitted to Congress in the present session.