HOT ATTACK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12536, 24 April 1935, Page 5

HOT ATTACK

X®**LONG v. ROOSEVELT GRAVE INST NIT ATT ON S (U.P.A. by Elec. Ter. Copyright.) WASHINGTON, April' 22, Senator Iluey Long’s attack on the Roosevelt Administration reached new and spectacular heights When before the Senate, the galleries of which were crowded, lie threatened that Louisiana might refuse to pay federal taxes in the United States Government withholds relief arid public works funds irom .that State. In «, 40-minute speech bristling with a denunciation of Mr Henry Wallace, Mr Harold Jokes, and the relief > dniinistrntor, Mr Hopkins, Senator Long alleged that the Roosevelt Administration “had called a gang of brigands’ into Louisiana. “No realm of rottenness and corruption. can he saddled on to mv State”, lie said. Senator Long referred to Mr Tokos ns the ‘chinch hug of Chicago” and to Mr Wallace as the “ignoramus of lowa.” Ho insinuated that the President’s political advisers were trying to buy the voters of Louisiana by the manipulation Off relief funds, and added : “We are going to make him pay a good price, and then we are going to vote just ns 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 appropriations for Louisiana, and have declared their intention to withhold funds.