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limit. Under our constitution we can't appropriate any more money for ether relief or public works,” which was true. People have forgotten now that the states were broke. They had reached the debt limit in ever so many states. No monies could be brought out by the states. However, they all would cooperate.

This question of people moving over state lines looking for relief, of course, occupied a good deal of their time. Most of them were thoroughly opposed to it if they were in the line of travel that brought people from a poorer state to a richer one, but of course, the people who came from Oklahoma, or places like that, where the population was moving out of the state to go to what they believed to be a richer state, like California, hoping to get relief, couldn't find' it in their heart to blame the poor fellows for taking to the road and trying to get to California. California, for instance, got so many of these people that they set up a “bum blockade.” I can't remember whether it was before or after this meeting, though I think it was after, because at this time things were still chaotic. People hadn't really digested how great the movement of population was. They were coping with the as best they could. The relief agencies for public relief were doing what they could. Anyway, California was a rich state. It did have