Whittled Down; Funds Said to Be Misused Washington, Jan. 13.
A rebellious contingent of House of Representative Democrats and Republicans today joined in, demanding an investigation of alleged corrupt tion in the Works Progress Admini stration while the increasingly power. ful anti-New Deal coalition launched a fight to reduce President Roose-volts requested $875,000,000 appropriation for Wr A. relief by $150,- 000.000.
The House Appropriations Committee gave formal approval to the Appropriations Sub-Committee report which reduced the appropriation to $725,000,000 to give the President his first rebuff in the new Congress.
Mr, Clifton A. Woodrum, conservative Democrat of Virginia, urged that "career enrollees" be dismissed from the Federal relief rolls immediately.
Mr. John Taber, Republican Representative of New York, told the House that the Wr A. was guilty of "racketeering" and demanded full consideration of the recent Shepperd report which advised Congress that W.P.A. funds had been used to influence the primary elections in at least four states last year.
'A rough and tumble debate on the Presidents emergency relief appropriation request will reach its climax this afternoon when the bill comes up for amendment, political circles predieted. United Press.
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