LONG OF LOUISIANA

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1935, Page 7

LONG OF LOUISIANA

WILD SPEECH IN, SENATE; [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.) WASHINGTON, April 22. Senator Long’s attack on the Roosevelt Administration reached new spectacular heights when, before the Senate, the galleries of which were crowded he threatened that Louisana State might refuse to pay it.s Federal taxes if the United States Government withholds relief and public works funds 'from that State. In a forty-minute speech, bristling with denunciation of Mr Wallace Mr Ickes and Relief Administrator Hopkins, Senator Long alleged the Roosevelt Administration “had called a gang of brigands” into Louisiana. “Norealm of rottenness and corruption can be saddled to my State,” he said. He referred to Mr Wallace as “the ignoramus of lowa.” He insinuated the President’s political advisers were trying to buy the voters of Louisiana by the manipulation of relief funds. He added: “We are going to make him pay ’ a good price, and then we are going to vote just as we please in the coming elections.” Various Federal Departments entrusted with the expenditure of relief funds have charged Senator Long with an effort to control the appropriation for Louisiana, and they have declared their intent to withhold the funds.