INDIGNANT SPEECH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 124, 24 April 1935, Page 7

INDIGNANT SPEECH.

BY SENATOR HUEY LONG. TAX REPUDIATION THREAT. WASHINGTON, April 22. Senator Huey Long’s attack on the Roosevelt Administration reached new and spectacular heights,, when, before the Senate galleries, which _ were crowded, he threatened that Louisiana might refuse to pay the Federal taxes if the United States Government withholds relief and public works funds from that State.

In a 40 minutes’ speech bristling with denunciation of Mr H. A. Wallace (Secretary of Agriculture), Mr H. I;. Ickes (Secretary of the Interior) and the relief administrator (Mr Hopkins). Senator Long charged the Roosevelt Administration, saying that it “had called a gang of brigands’/ into Louisiana. “No realm of rottenness and corruption can be saddled into iny State,” said Senator Long. He referred to Mr Ickes as “the cinch bug of Chicago,” and to Mr Wallace as “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, and added: “We are going to make him pav a good price, and then we are going to vote just as we please in the coming election.” Various Federal Departments entrusted with the expenditure of relief funds, have charged Senator Long with an effort to contol the appropriations for Louisiana, and have declared that they intend to withhold the funds.