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Show MORE VPA CASH WILL BESOUGHT WASHINGTON, Jsa. (UP) President Roosevelt Intend asking a oongreaa lata Uiia week for approxi- i mately 1700.000,000 ta continue the L works progress administration until June to. ,. Administration advisers said jr special message en relief, outlining needa and eUtlng that last year's appropriation ef fl,s3o.000.000 wis nearly sxhauated, probably would i be aent to tha capital Friday. Relief became the number one Is r sua of the new congress when tha senate campaign expenditures committee com-mittee recommended revisions in the law to divorce politics from re- lief. The committee found that re- j lief funds had been diverted to poll- 1 tlca In several states during the last . election campaigns. ' Expect Quick Action ' ' Despite controversy over W P A I activities, congressional leaders said the relief treasury would be re- filled quickly. They said $700,000,000 J would be sufficient to care for -t.MO.000 persons an til the end of the fiscal year. Bone senators sought support for 4 long-range program Intended to cushion relief rolls against depression depres-sion crowding. They would restrict W P A relief to 1,000,000 persons, and aid the ether unemployed through more liberal compensation benefits under the social security act and direct relief In which the states would share the cost equally. Win Ues Report Senators seeking to defeat eonflr -nation nf U-rrw I - Mnn 1 I na farmif W P A administrator, aa secretary of commerce, planned to ua tha campaign expenditures report. Republican Re-publican Leader Charles L. licNary of Oregon, said he would ask the senate to send the report to the commerce com-merce oommtttec, which will consider con-sider Hopkins' nomination. Although It did not censure Hopkins, Hop-kins, the report condemned some W P A practices and charged that some underlings la the relief agency had been guilty ef Indefensible" campaign tactics. It rebuked Aubrey Au-brey Williams, former deputy W P A administrator and now head of the national youth administration, administra-tion, for tolling group ef W P A workers that "we've got to heap our friends la power. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis D, III.) predicted that President Roosevelt Roose-velt would recommend transfer of many W P A activities to tha public works administration, which Is headed by Secretary ef Interior Harold L I ekes. |