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Show wmjipbj w w mm House Passes Relief Bill by 397 to 16 Vote Congressional Opposition to Spending Program Develops as Leaders Await Reaction to $150,000,000 Cut in Fund ' 1 By JOHN M. HIGHTOYVEB WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (AP) Democratic insurgency against the administration'! relief program spread to the senate -today after the rebellious house had lopped $130,000,000 from the appropriation asked by President Roosevelt to finance WPA for the next five months. ' Leaden ef ths senate's economy bloe predicted that the 1718,000,000 fund voted by ths house would win senate approval, probably late next week, desplts ths president's request for 1871,000,000. ' The house massed the relief bin Jaat night, 1ST to IS, after an Informal Infor-mal coalition of Republicans and many Democrats had reduced Its amount and Incorporated prohibitions prohibi-tions sgatnst political activities In ths WPA. Reaetloa Awaited ' This first major legislative action In the new congress was Interpreted widely as evidence that the election-strengthened election-strengthened Republicans, working with a substantial bloo of Democrats, Demo-crats, might curtail other phases of ths president's spending program. Leaders awaited signs of ths noun-try's noun-try's reaction, however, before venturing ven-turing definite predictions. Mr, Roosevelt had advocated that . the appropriation be made without etrings and that eongross take further fur-ther time In which to work out legislation against politics la relief. Instead ths house wrote these provisions lata) the measure: That none ef the money should bo used to pay WPA officials and administrative employes under the civil eervtoe this to forestall a presidential order blanketing thousands thou-sands of them Inte the civil service February L Limits ray Variation That for the same er corn parable work In different states the WPA could not vary relief wages more than IS per cent That none of ths money could be used to pay salaries or benefits to any official or beneficiary who tried to influence the vote of a WPA worker. This amounted te a statement state-ment of policy, alnco no elections are scheduled In the five-month period. That no relief funds be paid te aliens. That ths WPA reverse a recent order and continue on work relief 1 men and women ever M, .all of whom ths WPA had classified sa unemployable and ordered turned over te local relief agendo. This order was te be effective January Janu-ary SI. That ths farm "security administration adminis-tration bo prevented from using any of ths money te establish hosiery hos-iery mills en federal homesteads, Hearings Open Monday Chairman Adams (D, Colo.) announced an-nounced senate appropriations subcommittee would begin hearings on the bill Monday morning. Ha predicted that both his committee, and ths full appropriations committee commit-tee would approve ths house figure, at the most, and said some sffort might be made to reduce it. There were some Indications that senators would go oven farther than house members In writing restrictions restric-tions on WPA policies. Chairman Byrnes (D, 8, C and his unemployment committee have worked out a program for distributing distrib-uting WPA funds under rulee laid down by congress instead of authority author-ity delegated, as for the last six years, to ths administration. Byrnes was expected ta announce details of ths proposal lata today. Boms persons understood that h had In mind, poeaibty as a long rang objective, ultimate replacement replace-ment of the present relief system' - uj m new vm hhh on inf iom ok tying together the United States unemployment un-employment service and the unemployment unem-ployment compensation work ef the social security board. Byrnea is a member of the appropriations appro-priations subcommittee, and Adams (ContlniMKf on rr Two) (Column Blsbtl HOUSE PASSES WPACUT BILL (Continues Wrmm Peae One) aald It would be "dispoeed to hear" hia auggaetion. Adam expreeeed peraonal disapproval, however, of trying to write a formula for relief distribution. Byrne and other have dlacud apportioning th money by atate on th been of population, th number of )obla and poaalbly area Adam declared any formula would raault In inoqultiee. Th federal government ow it obligation to th Individual citiun." he said, "and th distribution of re- lief money ehould be made to the citliene on the bail of need." Pa-sag of the relief bill cleared the house decks of legislation ready for immediate action, and leaders expected only routine meeting th first half of next week. The aenata faced a busy schedule, however, having yet to act upon th nomination of Harry L. Hopkina to be secretary of commerce. Professor Pro-fessor Felix Frankfurter to b a member of th luprem court and Frank Murphy to be attorney general. gen-eral. Many member of both major parties par-ties predicted all three nomination would be confirmed. 5600 Utahns Face Lost of Jobs Five thousend six hundred Utah W P A worker will lose their Joos by June 30 if th appropriation bill now before congress la paased, tha United States Conference of Mayor May-or In Washington, D. C, estimated Saturday. The conference, according to an Associated Press dispatch, estiuiat- d th 1.151,500 worker who would be dropped from W P A roll in th nation would Include the reduction in Utah from 14.900 on December 31. 1938, to 9300 on June 30, 1939. - Darrell J. Greenwell. Utah stste ' W P A administrator, who waa reached by telephone in Ogden Saturday, Sat-urday, aaid he believed these figure to be correct, although h had no official notification of th cut from Washington, D. C. Six hundred worker must yet be trimmed from Uteh roll by th end of January, sine th maximum quota for the month ha been et at 12.500, Mr. Greenwell pointed out How the I72S.O0O.O0O house-approved W P A appropriation bill will affect next month's quota, Mr. Greenwell wa unable to atate. Tha house, cut 11.10,000,000 from President Roosevelt' Roose-velt' original relief request. - Despite th propoeed cut facing the state, sewer construction work for 400 men in Salt Lake City waa being planned Saturday. Eugene S. Peiroe, city engineer of aewera, aald th 400 will complete their work in Country Club Acre by th middle of next week, and will ba out of work unlesa a new project now being planned 1 authorised au-thorised by th city commleelon and W P A officials. It wiU bs submitted to the commissioners about Tuesday, Mr. Peirc said. Th project would include installation instal-lation of new sewers in a district bounded by Second South' street Ninth West street and Jordan river; also north of Eleventh avenue east of th Veteran' hospital. New trunk line would be constructed on Ninth East, Seventeenth East, Nineteenth East and Twenty-first East streets between Seventeenth and Twenty-first South streets. |