EMERGENCY MOVE FOR AMERICAN RELIEF
Contentious Last-Minute
Decision
(Received June 29,11.20 p.m.) . WASHINGTON, June 29.
Barely 24 hours before the closing of the fiscal year, when the Treasury found its-elf without funds to continue the relief programme in the succeeding year, the Senate in an all-night session approved an 1,818,009,909 dollars measure, the principal parts of which have already been passed by the House.
However, because the Senate increased the appropriation by 73.000,009 and introduced a large number of controversial features into the Bill it is feared a protracted delay may attend the inter-House conference necessary to straighten out the many existing differences of opinion concerning what relief projects should be discontinued and what sums should be spent on those to be continued. The appropriation, which is 800.000.009 less than the previous year’s, allows 1,477,000,000 for the Works Progress Administration and 123,000,000 for the National Youth Administration.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 233, 30 June 1939, Page 9
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