SPECTACULAR OUTBURST

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 April 1935, Page 5

SPECTACULAR OUTBURST

CRITICISM OF ROOSEVELT. “ROTTENESS AND CORRUPTION.” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). WASHINGTON, April 22. Senator Huey Long’s attack on the Roosevelt Administration reached new spectacular heights when before the Senate, the galleries of which were crowded, he threatened that Louisiana might refuse to pay Federal taxes if the United States Government withholds relief and public works funds from that State.

In a 40-minute speech bristling with denunciation of the public works administrator, Mr Wallace Ickes, and the relief administrator, Mr Harry L. 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 my State,” he said. Senator Long referred to Ickes as “the chinch bug of Chicago” and to Hopkins ns “the ignoramus of lowa.”

He insinuated that 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 tin effort to control the appropriations for Louisiana and have declared their intention of withholding funds.