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...with only a few minor amendments to the measure passed by the House. One of them, as a safeguard against possible unconstitutionality of WPA, shifted control of the relief fund from WPAdministrator Hopkins to President Roosevelt. Another, aimed at preventing any more such huge false starts as 'Quoddy Dam and the Florida Canal, provided that no relief project could be begun unless sufficient funds to complete it were set aside from this year's appropriation. When this amendment was read in the Senate, the President's faithful Joe Robinson rose to offer an amendment...
...refused to appropriate money to continue them, President Roosevelt washed his hands of the two ventures. He had started them on relief money without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk $5,400,000 in the Florida ditch, and well he knew that Republican campaigners would not let U. S. voters forget his headlong largess...
...Republicans, Senators Hale and White were against the canal. But as men from Maine, they were for the dam. Hence Senator Hale forced a division of the Robinson amendment to provide separate votes on the two projects. Florida's canal came first. Senators Hale. White and 28 colleagues voted against it, but 35 Senators put it through...
Then came the dam. "Aye." voted Senators Hale, White and 26 colleagues. "Nay!" voted 39 angry Senators...
...Pacific States were dull. Undistinguished were pictures of San Francisco Bay, cod fishermen, miners, deserts and the Rock Island Dam...