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What brought relief matters close to a head last week was a six-day debate on the Costigan-La Follette bill which was made the Senate's unfinished business. For weeks in committee the Insurgent-Demo-cratic heart of Edward Prentiss Costigan and the Insurgent-Republican heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...
...issue," said Senator Costigan, "may be postponed by a reluctant timid or suppliant majority of the Senate, driven or hypnotized by the allurements or hostility of White House, financial or industrial interests. It cannot, however, be evaded. ... It involves nothing less than the inalienable right of American citizens to life...
...Senate Manufactures Committee were two bills for human relief: 1) a $250,000,000 appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...
...procession filed up to tell their tales of woe. Senator Costigan felt more & more satisfied with himself. To a suggestion that his bill proposed a "dole," he answered hotly: "Americans must not starve while we quibble over words." Evidence lay before him from the American Association of Public Welfare Officials that only ten States were able to take care of their distress...
Last week, though they had not yet heard from Senator Costigan, the Zoo officials announced they were considering three courses: They could move loud Crane Anson to a special pen further away from the apartment house; perform tonsilectomy on all the cranes; put all the cranes in the giraffe pen, move the giraffes, which, unable to make any sound with their mouths, sometimes have an unpleasant smell, nearer to Senator Costigan...