WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt suffered his first rebuff in the new Congress today when a House Subcommittee sliced $150,000,000 from his proposed $875,000,000 appropriation to finance relief until July 1, and restricted its expenditure.
The Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed.
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