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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...
...Follette eyed the chamber coldly and remarked that unless something was done pretty quickly "there would be some empty seats in the next Senate." It was about this time that the weather-vane abruptly whirred about. Aware that final say on the matter would be up to a Demo-cratic House, the Senate's Republican majority sat by and let Democratic Senators fight it out among themselves...
...rich." With equal promptitude, stocky, ruddy little Speaker Garner of the House-to whom William Randolph Hearst referred last fortnight (and again last week over the radio; as the Hope of the Democratic Party-retorted: "Ogden Mills is talking through his hat! If he knows what the Demo-cratic tax program is, then I wish he'd tell me!" Also without ado, Speaker Garner summoned Floor Leader Rainey, Congressman Collier and Senator Harrison to his office and in good plain plainsman's language, for two and one-half hours, told them there was yet no Democratic tax plan...
...into the Treasury and dole out money to those in need [applause]. Is there a man on the Democratic side who now wishes to rise and dissent from committing his party to the dole policy [nobody rises]. Very well, then, the issue is clean cut. The Demo-cratic party in the House would commit the Government to the dole...
...Vacancies. To help out harassed Republican leaders in the House, the Republican New Jersey Legislature met extraordinarily last month, ordained a special election in the 5th Congressional district on Dec. i?in time for the victor to speed to Washington and participate in House organization. Last week's Demo-cratic sweep in New Jersey (see p. 15) dampened G. 0. P. hopes that a Republican Congressman would succeed to the Republican vacancy...