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Relief. Chief topic of anxiety was Relief-how much and how little. After pondering that question for three month; the only information that the President gave was one sentence, a request of $1,500,000,000 for work relief in fiscal 1938. This figure, biggest in the Budget was the...
This news put Congressmen in an economizing mood. Senator Byrnes made another proposal, to knock a flat 10% off the Budget estimates for all expenses except payments on the public debt. In the House Republican John Taber of Aubun N. Y., moved to send the Department of Agriculture $925,000...
No particular incident last week caused discontent in the officers' mess. Among Congressmen the growing suspicion that before summer's end they would be called upon to vote more taxes was disquieting. Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Bob Doughton, the Administration's Congressional tax champions, were in...
When debate resumed this week, Sena tor Byrnes changed his amendment to apply to all Sit-Downs affecting interstate commerce, but many a colleague still objected to having it tacked to the Guffey Bill. Denying assertions that a vote against the amendment would be a tacit endorsement of the Sit...
Having salved their consciences by such objections, virtually the entire contingent of Administration Senators joined in killing the Byrnes' Rider by 48-10-36 - but only after Leader Robinson had promised that a separate Sit-Down resolution would get early consideration.