| Show to aid rain of checks house records reveal haste in getting AAA gifts out before election recent disclosures indicate that the boll sol conservation act new A it was even a tar far more sweeping delegation of power to the agricultural dep debirt ment than was suspected at the time the measure was signed by ile tl e dent reb 29 As a matter of fact it now appears that congress in cl ar act new deal manner provided and left details to some body else the situation was fully revealed when chester C davis administrator of AAA appear appeared ei before the cittee of tt e house committee on ap on march 10 that was ten days after the let ct had been signed in former times congress exercised its right and duty to specify how bow money taken from the treasury should be used but since the 4 blank check given to the president early last 3 lear ear the old custom seems to have broken down how astonishingly n y lit t hg tie he congress knew about just how the tah e new AAA funds were to be used is 13 shown by two paragraphs in the tilt U offic til 1 printed record of the testimony of ad davis election year haste the following Is from the record mr ur woodrum As I 1 understand it the department itself does not know now what ile tl e specific conditions are that the farmer will have to comply to entitle him to shire under the act or what he will get or the amount of payment or anything of wit tl it kind mr davis iso ino not in any final form later in the hearing it was brought out that voting of the huge sum in bulk bull before dells details were knon as to its expenditure would mike benefit payments available to farmers before the election not only that but mr davis said as much as possible of the would be paid to 3 farmers in there would be only one payment to a farmer instead of several payments mr davit s 1 I ol 01 e of the peal of operations nest next fall happened in 1934 too the gentle rain of died cheel to the tamers promises to become a brisk downpour beginning in bf tei I 1 dembei ai J carrying on past election diy daiy depre senta tentative tive chester 0 colt bolt n of ohio called the administrators mention it to the tact fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars had been paid to failers in a october just before tl ti e elections he ile asked if it 1 is I s a coincidence that payments had been heaviest in october mr davis replied tl at no deviation I 1 ad I 1 een pen made in the regular method of ants another disclosure that interested some of tl ti e committeemen w s that the new aaa will hive an army of men in the field in 48 states working by the day around the time the shower of checks falls heaviest these rhese men will be paid d i echi v by bv tt e AAA but they will be selected by as soc lations ions in the varl various O 0 1 us counties these associations will h have ave the ad vice and counsel of 3 men in ta tie e field eld as direct employees of the new aad mr davis said these men will not be under civil service when asked why the merit system of harln hiring the ekak A personnel was not adopted mr davis said you see seed we are right in the middle of this thing now you can not have too much disturbance and de lay in personnel lloyd thurston of iowa made this comment mr thurston Tn urston but those positions were all filled here on a patronage basis surely back in the sta states they should not be strait jacketed by the same restrictions of approval from washington administrator davis said eventually the investigation of claims and the ai al lot ments of money will be handled by the states and that then there will be no interference |
