The Washington herald., 1921-07-29
Senator Norris Crumples
Up After Speech for
Farm Measure.
PROPOSAL KILLED
ATG. o. P. BEHEST
Substitute, However, Has
Clauses Opposed by
Administration.

Senator Norris. chairman OF the
Committee on Agriculture, collapsed
yesterday after he had concluded
bitter denunciation of the tactics OF
the Administration in pushing aside
his bill for creation Of slOO,oOo'OOo
farm export corporation.
Norris spoke for two hours and
a half, waging a lone and deter
mined fight in behalf of his measure
Then he walked into the Senate
cIoakroom and crumpled up on one
of the couches there. Senators no
ticed his condition and half-carried
him to an adjoining room. where
Senator Ball. who is a doctor, at
tended him. Some time later he ap-
parently had recovered and it was
said at his home last night that his
condition was not serious
Criticized by Associate.
While Norris was under the care
Of the doctor. Senator Kellogg, fell
Iow-committeeman and associate il
the agrarian bloc, sharply criticized
Norris from the floor for the speech
he had made.
Senator Norris was quite serious
Iy i'll for several weeks during the
winter and has not been strong
since his recovery. 1t was noticed
yesterday that he was pale, but
his voice was strong an2 he spoke
vigorously from noon until close to
time for adjournment, engaging in
many lively controversies on the
merits of his bill.
This speech, which he began We'd
nesday afternoon. was vitriolic in
the extreme, and included criticisms
OF many prominent persons in the
administration
Earlier in the day the Agricul-
ture Committee. under pressure of
administration influence, decided to
displace the Norris bill with sub
stitute said to be less likely to in
vite President Harding's veto, The
vote was 10 to 2, only Senator Ladd.
of North Dakota, supporting its
author.
The substitute bill is a compound
of parts of the Norris bill and parts
of the bill introduced yesterday by
Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, with
the approval of Secretary Hoover
and Eugene Meyer, director of the
War Finance Corporation.
The committee. however. insisted
on inserting in the substitute draft
several provisions of the Norris bill
to which the administration had
taken violent exception
Credit to Producers.
The most conspicuous of these
provisions was an amendment au-
thorizing the War Finance Corpora
ton to accept securities of foreign
governments in payment for farm
products exported Another amend
ment would extend port credit di-
rect to producers as well as to
bankers and exporters.
The committee also adopted a pro-
vision authorizing the War Finance
Corporation to increase its bond is
sues from $1,000, 100000 to $1,000
eOe. 900 to give it greater credit
facilities in handling farm products.
The principal feature of the kellogg
bill, directing the War Finance Cor
poration to perform the functions
proposed in the Norris bill. was
retained
President Harding's efforts to in
duce Congress to take a recess re
ceived another setback yesterday
when the Senate Steering Commit
tee, Yielding to demands of the ag-
ricultural bloc, added two more I'M
portant measures to the legislative
program of the present session.
The measures are the Capper-
Tincher bill to regulate grain ex-
changes, as amended by the Senate
Agriculture Committee. and the
Kenyon bill to give the farmers rep
resentation in regul;Sing the ma
tional banking machinery by max
ing the Secretary Of Agriculture a
member of the Federal Reserve
Board.
No Action ON Taxes.
The two bills. the Steering Com
-mittee decided, will take their place
on the Senate calendar for consider
alton In the order named as soon as
the antibeer bill is passed.
The committee took no action with
regard to the much discussed ques
ton of giving tax revision prece-
dence over the tariff bill. Members
were of the opinion that this prob
lem did not yet call for action.
The CappAr-Tincher bill has been
passed by the House, but it has been
amended by the Senate to make Is
somewhat less Objectionable to the
grain exchanges. The agriculture
bloc has been insisting that action
be taken on IL at the present ses-
sion.