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President Hoover's Christmas could be merry after all because last week he won his legislative fight with Congress, wrung from a reluctant and bickering Senate the bills he wanted for Drought and Unemployment relief (see p. 8). It was late when the measures reached the White House for signing. Only two newscamera-men had remained on the chance of getting a picture. When they were ushered into his office, the President raised his head, smiled broadly, asked: "Well, only two photographers...
House Work Done: The House of Representatives last week: ¶ Passed a bill appropriating $150,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board's stabilization operations; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution for Drought Relief after cutting its total from $60,000,000 to $30,000,000; later agreed to a $45,000,000 conference report; sent it to the Senate (see p. 8). ¶ Agreed to the $116,000,000 Unemployment Relief conference report; sent it to it to the Senate (see p. 8). ¶ Passed the $213,043,702 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill...
...Passed a bill to loan drought-stricken husbandmen $60,000,000 for feed and food; sent it to the House (see below...
Half a hundred newsmen jostled their way expectantly into President Hoover' circular office at noon one day last week. Word had spread that the President was thoroughly displeased at Republican mismanagement of his relief programs (for Drought and Depression) in the Senate, that for the third time he would have sharp-stinging things to say.?A pleasant hearth fire crackled in the hushed room as the President lifted a paper from his desk, began to read aloud. His face grew red with feeling. His voice was harsh and annoyed. Excerpts...
...Administration for "niggardliness" in its relief plans. Declared Senator Walsh: "There are worse misfortunes tHan heavy taxes. One is the failure of the Government to remove the spectre of starvation and misery and idleness and unrest." Another provocation was the Senate's preference for a $60,000,000 drought relief program over the administration...