WORK RELIEF PLAN IN U.S.A.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20066, 25 March 1935, Page 7

WORK RELIEF PLAN IN U.S.A.

FOUR BILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION EX-PRESIDENT’S ATTACK ON NEW DEAL United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 24. 7.20 p.m.l WASHINGTON, March 23. Before hard driving tactics of the Administration leaders, the Senate passed the 4,880,000,000 dollars Work Relief Bill, by 68 votes to 16 to-day. but at the last minute was forced to accept several amendments that the Administration hopes to remove in conference with the House leaders, before the measure can be presented in its final form. One is slightly inflationary, and would require the printing of silver certificates against all silver in the Treasury. Haste was made to complete the passage before Senator Long could return again and start his filibuster against the measure. ATTACK ON NEW BEAL EX-PRESIDENT OPENS CAMPAIGN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 24, 7.20 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 23. Mr Henry Hoover to-day issued a broadside attack on the New Deal, which is widely interpreted as the first move in the mobilisation of the Republican strength for the 1936 campaign if not a personal bid for the party leadership, in a campaign fight against President Roosevelt. A statement from a paper read before a gathering of young Republicans urged the nation to reject the Democratic Administration as “un-American, and employing bureaucracy regimentation.” Mr Hoover said the standard of living could only be raised through the productive genius of the people. “The theories of this Administration do not work. They are no longer the propagandised millenium. They are self exposed.” PAYING SOLDIERS’ BONUS INFLATIONIST VICTORY IN HOUSE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 24, 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 22. The United States to-day initiated inflation, when by a three-vote margin the House of Representatives passed a Bill for the paying off of the soldiers’ bonus by issuing 2,000,000,000 dollars in new money. The Bill was then sent to the Senate. The inflationists caused a surprise when they brought forward the socalled Patman Bill to pay veterans’ adjusted compensation certificates, which are not due until 1945. The Bill proposed the issuance of fiat currency. Administration leaders pointed out that President Roosevelt would veto the measure, but the inflationists, showing unexpected strength, pushed through the vote over the protests.