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Show HOUSE VOTES TO CONDUCT RELIEFPROBE WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.R) The house today authorized auth-orized an exhaustive inquiry into the Works Progress Administration, Ad-ministration, while an offstage off-stage struggle developed over attempted log-rolling on an extra-budgetary $250,000,000 appropriation for farm' parity payments pay-ments and $150,000,000 for relief. House administration leaders joined Republicans in supporting the resolution and for an investigation investi-gation of WPA by the house appropriations ap-propriations committee. Charge Mismanagement Republicans cnarged the inquiry would show that relief is rife with "politics, graft, corruption and mismanagement." The Democratic Demo-cratic leadership asserted the inquiry in-quiry would clear WPA of such charges and reflect credit on administration ad-ministration of relief. The vote was 352 to 27 for the investigation. The investigation resolution was approved as the house headed head-ed for a showdown tomorrow on the relief and farm appropriations which may decide the fate of economy econ-omy and business appeasement moves in the 76th congress. Metropolitan Met-ropolitan congressmen were attempting at-tempting to organize a united farm and urban front in support of the $150,000,000 relief appropriation. appro-priation. In return, they proposed pro-posed to support the extra $250,-000,000 $250,-000,000 for farm payments. |