Programme to be Centre Of Congress Attack Washington, Apr. 23.
'Transcending party lines, the bitter fight brewed by the Adminstration' spending programme begins in earnest on Monday when hearings on President Roosevelt's spending requests will be held before the House Appropriation sub-committee, it was learned here today.
Meanwhile, timing his charges to coincide with the Adminstration's drive for more relief funds, Mr. Bruce Barton, Republican representative of New York, announced he wanted to introduce an amendment to the Corrupt Practices Act.
Mr, Barton charged political auntism with having pressure on the Adminstration's relief distributions, His amendment calls for fixing a penalty of a fine of U.S.$5,000 and three years imprisonment to any official distributing Government funds to influence the political acts of the recipient.
Mr. Barton specifically mentioned Pennsylvania where a representative Aubrey Williams, Deputy Emergency Relief Administrator, was investigating charges that Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, was coercing Works Progress Administration workers for political purposes.—United P:
Neutrality Law Washington, Apr. 23.
On Monday, he will present to the Senate a motion revising the United States Neutrality Law so that it can be held inapplicable in the case of war, Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota, told Havas today. He hoped for the support of several Senators in tabling this motion which would lead to the lifting of the embargo on United States arms and ammunition destined for Spai resolution will be the first coacerving Spain to come up before the Upper House. He himself is well-known as a Radical and as one of the sponsors of the Neutrality Law. In connection with the latter, a resolution proposing the entire abolition of the Law was presented by Senator William H. King, Democrat of Utah, some time ago. But it was never even discussed by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate.—Havas, significant Support Detroit, Apr. 23. Wholehearted support to the Administration's proposed recovery relief programme given by Mr. Frank Murphy, Governor of Michigan, in a radio broadcast, caused little surprise today but observers considered it as significant.
Mr. Murphy said the spending programme promises an early revival of trade and increase in national come.—United Press,
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