The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-09
BORAH SEES EXTRA
Session AS LIKELY
TELEGRAMS INDICATE SUCH AC-
TION-UR0ES WHEAT GROWERS
TO UNITE ON DEFINITE PLAN

Lewiston, Idaho-Senator w. z.
Borah, addressing farmers at the
Lewis and Clark hotel said that tele-
grams he had been receiving 1nt1-
mated that a special session of con-
rress was likely. If it Is called, he
said. he felt little would be accom-
vushed in obtaining financial relief
for farmers through a guarantee OF
wheat prices unless there was worked
out a definite plan before legislation
was undertaken. 1.-The District OF
Columbia is not friendly to the wheat
farmer and the plan must be formul-
ated outside he said.
The meeting was in the form of
4 conference prior to the address of
the senator at the Lewiston State
Normal school at p. m. Wednesday
night. when he discussed agricultural
problems along the lines of speeches
he has delivered in the farming re-
gions east of Lewiston.
Want 81 Surplus Wheat Guarantee
In the course of his talk he asked
those present if in their opinion
guarantee OF $150 bushel on the
1924 crop would prove helpful. There
was a divided opinion. guarantee
of So on the surplus for 1928, 1924,
and 1925 seemed to express the gov
erning view.
The senator said he was not OPP
posed to some form of financial re-
lief. To guarantee a price would not
be unconstitutional nor without pre-
cedent, as in the case of assistance
to the railroad industry. He said un-
less the guarantee plan was a part
OF some approved policy as to guar
anteeing the future of the industry,
the guarantee or bonus would prove
of no benefit, for another year would
find the wheat farmer facing SINH
lar condition. To pay fixed price
at a fixed time for any surplus, he
thought, had a virtue, inasmuch as
the government would then be i'm
PEELED to find a world market, which
he urged was the only permanent
remedy.
Senator Borah said he did not be-
lieve any surplus wheat Russia had
10 sell this year in Europe would de- {
moralize the market if the markets
If the world were opened to Ameri-
ian wheat. He argued that wheat ,
.ariff would be of no benefit.
Says He Favored Wool Tariff
In theory, Senator Borah said, it ,
nay appear all right, but it is diff s
,ult to regulate an export article by I
he tariff. The senator took occasion
O refute statement in letter re-
eived by him stating that he had OPP
,osed tariff on wool. He had ia
-ored a % cent tariff, but opposed :
3 cents and it was finally adjusted Il
t 81 He thought % cents was all =
he tariff that was justified.
The senator said the condition OF
ne wheat farmer was result Of the r
var, presenting problem that had
ever been faced before. He was de-
irous, therefore, of obtaining the 4
iewpoint of the farmer and all other
formation, that he could cooperate
l some helpful plan. He had no
oubt that free tolls through the
anama canal would be permanent II
enefit as the greatest of rail rate r
sgulators. In the matter of imme- n
ate relief legislation, the farmers N
ust all unite on some definite plan az
Never in my 16 years of public III
fe," the senator said, have ] been w
much at sea in forming a definite 81
,inion as to just what that plan ef
ould be-"
At the close of the meeting j. C. Sc
nsen, who presided, called attention u
the wheat conference at Spokane 81
'xt week and urged all farmers to re
tend. Sc