The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-08-12
by WALTER W. LIGGETr

F0rdney Tariff Bill-Deta
BY WALTER w. LIGGETT
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Presiden'
Harding succeeded in blocking the
Norris farm export bill, but the Kel,
eogg bill, offered Is the administration
substitute, was too raw even for the
reactionary senate to swallow.
As q consequence il was laid on the
shelf and now q bill drafted by Sena.
tor McNary Of Oregon passed the
senate and was sent to the house with
administration support
The Norris bill was opposed by
Harding, Mellon, Hoover and admins.
tration Spokesman such as Lodge and
Edge because it went directly to the
bottom Of agricultural distress and
proposed to curb matters by creating
government corporation which would
direct and sell it abroad. It virtually
dispensed with tie bankers, profess
sional exporters, grain buyers and
other middlemen and this is Why il
aroused opposition. The Harding ad-
ministration looks upon life with big
business viewpoint and is not sympa-
thetic with any measure that would do
away with any social parasites.
The Kellogg bill, which was drafted
Ut the request Of the administration,
was designed to help the bankers in
stead of the farmers. 1t provided that
advances should be made to bankers
by the War Finance corporation and
then the farmers might get assistance
BY giving new mortgages and paying
high rates of interest. There was
practically no provision for exporting
grain to starving Europe and it was
careful to protect the interests of the
middlemen at every turn Of the road.
NORRIS FLAYS KELLOGG BILL
Senator Norris exposed the iniqui-
ties Of the Kellogg bill, and the irreg-
ular manner In which it was drafted,
in one Of the most sensational speech
es heard in congress in recent years.
The Nebraskan was thoroughly angry.
He dispensed with the usual "sena-
torial courtesy" and called spade a
spade. Eve wanted to eliminate the
middlemen and the bill which the agri-
cultural committee reported (the Nor
ris billy would have enabled the or
gained producers Of agricultural
products in this country to carry their
own products from the farms to the
markets abroad" he said.
"lf the operation of this bill had
been a success and think it would
have been-there is not any doubt that
these producers themselves then would
have taken the very machinery that
this bill set up temporarily and would
have made it permanent, and they
would have had to great extent a per-
manent elimination of the middlemen. y
NOTHING FOR FARMERS
This, of course, was exactly why
the administration opposed the Norris
bill and brought in the Kellogg meas
ure. This rank bill, which was con-
cocted at White House conferences
and never came before the agricultural
committee, Norris handled without
gloves. ut provides nothing for the
producer" he declared. He is left
out entirely. The bill deals with bank
ers, with middlemen, with trust COM
panies, and confers all its favors on
them. There is no provision in it un-
der which anything can be done for
the farmers without q rake-off to a
banker, or dealer, or Spectator, I"
and he pointed out that it, administers
ton would b in the hands Of tle War
Finance corporation directors "whose
only knowledge Of agriculture has
perhaps been acquired in their tedious
trudging over the golf links" Norris
boldly asserted there had been fire.
quent conferences at the White House
Tor the express purpose of blocking
his bill and directly accused Secretary
Hellon Of looking. at conditions solely
through big business viewpoint.
Norris wsll-aimsd attack 20 thor
cughly exposed the vicious provision,
Of the Kellogg bill that the admins.
erataon ran 20 cover and withdrew tn,
measure. Thsn McNary Of Orseor
drafted . substitute, which also turn,
0vof the administration Of farm cred
II 70 the War Finance corporatio,
and protects the middleman, but doe
allow advances 70 individual producer
and associations Of producers a. vel
- 70 bankers and spectators. Tn
neEiculturalo committee, reported thi
bill by vote Of 10 to2.
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