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Show 40 GOVERNORS OFFER BACKING TO ROOSEVELT Stat Exacutivaa and Thalr Ripraiantativas Confar With Praaldant 1tt9 tatM0dJ Pt'Matt WASHINGTON. March S-ThS governors of 40 state Indicated today, to-day, personally or through Ibair rep-raaantallva rep-raaantallva at tha governors aoa faranra here, that they would la oa racord la support Of President Itooaa volt's prof ram for aconomla re habile-Utlon. habile-Utlon. Tha atala executives wbo conferred lib Mr. lloosevell bad outlined to tham aa agenda dealing with tha banking altuatlon, fadaral unemploy-man! unemploy-man! rtllaf, farm mortgages and agrl-cultural agrl-cultural matters. They eppolnted a rommlttaa of thrao to draft a resolu-tlon resolu-tlon expressing confidence in tha Roosevelt proposals. That rommlttaa, composed of Gov. arnora Whlta of Ohio, Buck of Dele-wara Dele-wara and Grran of Rhode Island wara to call on Treasury Secretary Wood In tfurtnf tha aftarnoon to ductus tha formulation alto of a raaolutlott on (ha banklnf situation. Mr. Room r It opanad tha confer-anra confer-anra In tha aat room of tha Whlta Houaa with a M-minuta racltal of bla actlvitlaa of yoitardajr, which culml natad In tha call for an antra aoa aioo of confraaa. bank hoi Ida r and an ambargo on gold. At tha conclusion conclu-sion of hia ramarka ha laft tha (ovarnora (ov-arnora to thraab out tha mattara ba fora tham. Among those present were Oover nors Plnrhot of Pennsylvania, White of Ohio, Rosa of Idaho, Moors of New Jersey, Herring of Iowa. Bhnlta of Florida. Laffoon of Kentucky, Winant of New Hsmpahlra. Buck of Delaware, Brann of Mains, Allen of Louisiana, Blackwood of South Carolina, Pollard of Virginia, Schmedeman of Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, Conner of Mississippi and Wilson of Vermont Mr. Roosevelt prior to entering the discussion with the state execuuvea received a request which he took under un-der advisement from Herbert Benjamin, Benja-min, reputed communist leader of New York who led a hunger march to Washington soma months ago. Benjamin requested that ha be allowed al-lowed to bring in a delegation of IS to discuss various mattara affecting the unemployed. Later he asked to be allowed to parade with soma of his followers. He was told by White House attaches that permits ion would have to ba obtained from the police. Governor C. Ben Ross of Idaho submitted sub-mitted to tha conference a plan to put (.000.000 man at work 00 federal and state projects. Governor Ross ss Id tha work would ba financed by the federal government govern-ment paying the men in noninterast-bearing noninterast-bearing notes of II and upwards. There would be not more than (20 000.000.000 of these note which the workers could use as rash. Tha no Irs would be retired after a term of years and redeemed in rank. |