New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-01-07
RELIEF BILL FOR
EVERY ILL READY
ALLEGES SPECIFICS FOR ALL
NATloEAL COMPLAINTS ARE
BEFORE CONGRESS.
THOSE FOR FARMERS IN LEAD
Both Senate and House Trying to De-
wise Means to Help the Agricultural
interests Through the Present
Crisis.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

Crisis.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washington.-The hoppers of house
and senate are full of bills for the re-
lief OF every real and imaginary Ill
with which the body polite is afflicted,
supposed TO be afflicted, or threatened
with afhiction. All of these bills. their
Trainers believe, are specifics for the
confronting complaints. That they are
not specifics goes without saying, al
though 1t is possible that one or two
OF them may be so considered by the
legislators.
1t Is impossible that all measures
can be cures for the diseases in hand,
because some of them recommend
treatment directly counter to the treat
ment recommended by others. If it is
not contempt of congress so to say,
there are a good many quack doctors
In the membership of one house or the
other.
Farm relief legislation Is certain to
be attempted at the coming session.
Senator Gronna, who is chairman of
the senate committee on agriculture.
has introduced a resolution which will
revive the war finance corporation.
which will have powers to relieve CON
dltions inimical to farming and to 9TH
er interests of the country. This reso-
luton has been adopted.
The bill clerk of the house has been
busy separating and filing the bills in
tended to extend relief to the farmers
of the United States. The government
printing Office today Is working all
hours to put into plain print the meas
ures, good, bad and Indifferent, which
have been introduced to relieve all
kinds of critical, supposedly critical
and near critical situations in the varl-
Gus Industries of the United States.
Many Farming Bills.
The sO-called farming bills today are
In the majority. One measure directs
the committee on banking and cur
rency TO find out what legislation will
be necessary to permit the proper
financing of farmers and stock raisers.
Another bill authorizes the federal re-
serve board to take action necessary
10 extend liberal credits TO the cotton
farmers. Another bill prohibits gam
bling In foodstuffs and speculation in
stocks and bonds. Still another one Is
aimed to prevent the sale of cotton
and corn I'm future markets. Two Of
these measures were produced by Re-
p%ublicans and two by Democrats.
The senate agricultural committee
has been holding hearings with a view
TO framing additional relief measures.
Tobacco growers have said that they
are In the same plight ms other agri-
cultural interests. Wool growers have
had their say In the hearings and 9TH
er industries either have been heard or
still are to be heard through their spe-
cial ~pleaders.
The attention of congress has been
called to the resolution adopted by the
American Farm Bureau federation at
Its annual convention which was held
In indianapolis. A legislative program
was formulated which includes request
for changes In the tariff, the income
tax, the Esch-C ummins transportation
net. and for the passage of several
new measures for various kinds of re-
lief.
~ome Relief Is Probable.
Other resolutions adopted by other
bodies have come to congress. There
Is an immense amount of material on
hand upon which TO pass judgment.
The session Is a short one, but with
the proper committees working daily,
and the members attending the actual
sessions of congress when necessary.
1t Is probable that at this session some
measures can be framed. passed and
signed which may bring relief along
the lines necessary.
Presldent-elect Harding has been
asked by various agricultural bodies
and by individual agriculturists to
appoint to his cabinet a secretary Of
agriculture who understands every
phase of farming, the kind of Sec
rotary who was referred to in speeches
before the election as "a dirt farmer"
II is said that Mr.. Harding intends
to appoint a man close to the soil for
this position.
There seems TO be full appreciation
by members of the two houses of con-
gress that some legislation must be
passed to ameliorate present conditions
In the farming districts and also in
some of the city districts where trou-
bles have beset the manufacturers.
Some of the Republicans seem to think
that a new tariff bin will 20 a long
way toward %remedying existing evils.
Other Republicans are o so sure of
this, and the Democrats say that tariff
legislation will not benefit the situa-
ton In the smallest degree. There
are as many minds on the various
things as there are subjects. There
seems TO be n realizing sense In con-
gress hat while quickness OF action
is necessary, there must not be that
haste which the proverb says always
makes waste.
Few Nominations to Be Confirmed.
Some thousands of nominations for
office have been sent by President
Wilson TO the senate for confirma-
ton. II is said the chances are
that not much more than a bakers