Show Roosevelt Hits Back I In Congress Attacks I S On Federal Job Bill Executive Launches Counter Move as Couzens Couzens Couzens Couz- Couz ens Vents Wrath on Work Act Drafter in New Lump Sum Drive WASHINGTON Jan 24 2 UP The UP-The The house In effect toda today approved ap proved the tho administrations administration's plan to pa pay unemployed o d 50 a s month under the work relief bill WASHINGTON Jan 24 AP AP-A AP A p personal counter counterattack against conI congressional congressional con con- Jre gressional moves to itemize the relief relie fund was sent congress I by President Roosevelt today as new v differences flared over th the lump- lump Isum sum method of appropriating r Senator Couzens outspoken Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan Republican said that if ever er theman the theman theman man is found who drafted the work relief bill biJJ he ought to be han hanged hanged- ednol ed- ed not nol in eI effigy i but physically His statement was made during a 3 senate nate committee hearing on another matter while Mr Roosevelt's agent traveled to the capitol through heavy snow with a new presidential mes meso sage saJe Transmitting ll ng voluminous reports on orderly development of or public projects and expressing ing the hope the thet government ev eventually will ill spend annually for these purposes purposes pur pur- poses Mr Roosevelt elt had this to sa say about efforts to itemize the big work relief bill It 11 is only because of the current emergency of or unemployment and because because because be be- cause of or the physical impossibility of surveying weighing and testing each and every project that thal a segregation segre gation gatlon of or items is clearly impossible lat at the moment His message arrived as the house opened a second days day's debate on the Continued Ut on Putt Pie u Two o ROOSEVELT HITS JOBS CRITICS Continued from P pue One sum lump bill with a a. vote hoped for forby forby by nightfall Snell of New York the he t Republican lender leader said his party parly ta tc c cohorts were willing to appropriate a any ny sum that Is necessary for tor the relief re rc li lief liet et of unemployment But we oppose lic a lia further yielding of the powers of or c congress to the executive branch Couzens In his attack added thai th tha the e measure would be strongly contested con con- t tested ested In the senate He said if it he a assailed the house on the gag rule the papers wouldn't print it and anc i h house ouse members wouldn't speak to tc tome tome I m me e. e It Isn't the amount but the method meth o od d that J is being criticised ob observed I S Senator Wheeler D D. Mont Their expressions coincided with witha I a second day of house debate on the S m measure with Speaker Byrns planning plan n mn ning ing to prolong the session until a I v vote ote is had Ware Wage Flint FIrM Looms A A. fight light ov r wages the government government govern govern- ment proposes to pay persons per s sons ons threatened as administration I sl l leaders aders strove to get the 0 relief program through the house b before nightfall A cry of or scab wages came from Irom I R Representative ive Connery D D. Mass c chairman of the house labor committee com corn cornI as he attacked a proposal to tc I p pay ay an art average of or 50 a month He HeI S s served notice he would offer oller an as I sa a amendment to force the payment ol of wages prevailing In various local i ties I In 1st administration quarters quarter the p plans lans were defended as aiming iming at se security security se c pay which would provide a I cli li living ving for th the destitute President I R Roosevelt had said the pay should I b be e higher than th the dole but not I l large arge enough to discourage I f from rom taking private employment After winning committee a assent ent teI to te C a amendments curbing pow powers rs which I th the e dole to jobs measure confers on or I P President resident Roosevelt Democratic Insurgents In s said they would tIght light for fos f further urther curtailment tOda today before beLore th the b bill ill is passed d along to the senate enate A Among mong the men who attacked the S v vast ast authority th they y said the measure w would give th the chief executive were R Representatives Bulwinkle of North 1 C Carolina arolina and Driver of Arkan Arkansas I Feel Confident Speaker Byrns and other administration administration adminis adminis- t ration le leaders were confident the measure would go through quickly g giving iving the president the t to o spend at his hs discretion An agreement agreement agree agree- agree agree- ment meat on the lump jump sum Idea hadeen had b been een reached despite earlier drives t lo to o earmark the money for tor particular l lar ar projects Among amendments to which the h house ouse appropriations committee a agreed greed at the behest of ot insurgents was one generally regarded as aimed a at t Secretary Ickes public works administrator ad ad- This amendment would d delete elete the clause claue giving the president p power ower to prolong an any agency until J June une 30 30 1937 P W A expires next J June une 16 This amendment had to be acted acle upon by the house today AS lUI did others They Included proposals to tomake tomake make all types of projects eligible for work relief relict to restrict the presidents presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's power to abolish or co consolidate consolidate consoli consoli- ns date all agencies by writing in the I words emergency agencies and to I Idelete delete a year two-year prison penalty for tor violations of regulations laid down by the president |