The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
GREAT DELUGE OF BILLS
FOR RELIEF OF FARMERS
ALL OF PROPOSALS PROVIDE
THAT REMEDY COME FROM
UNITED STATES TREASURY.
FREAK REMEDIES AMONG EN-
Measure of Aid Suggested Run From
$3OOo0,O0O to ST., OOOOOO,OOO, and In
clude Wheat Growers, Cotton Plant
ers and Live Stock Raisers.

As congress turns from Teapot
Dome and Daugherty to the more
prosaic business of passing laws, it is
confronted by a deluge OF farmer re-
lief bills which probably will take pre-
cedence, after tax and bonus bills, over
nearly all other legislation, writes
Harden Colfax, the well-known Wash
ington correspondent.
These measures run the scale from
outright advances OF $1,000 each to
farmers to proposals that the govern
ment take over the wheat, corn, cot
ton and wool output for five years.
Some OF these bills probably will
be enacted into law All are designed
to render treasury aid to the man be-
hind the pillow. A few have been re-
ported by committee. and are on the
calendar The measure of relief, put
in the form OF dollars and cents, runs
from $30,O0O,000 to $1,000,O00000, with
proposed appropriations of from $780,,
100000 to $200000,000 ruling as favor
ties.
The measures reflect the widest di-
vergence of remedy proposed in re-
cent years.
In some cases the corporations
would be authorized, in addition, to
issue bonds. up to $500,000000, and
sell them. through the treasury to
the public In one measure the novel
suggestion is made that the govern
ment issue scrip in part payment for
wheat which it would purchase at
| $3.50 a bushel.
What the cost would be is prob
lematical. Estimates run from few
hundred millions to more than ST.
000,000,000 The enactment OF some OF
the proposed measures probably would
wipe out the balance in the treasury
at the end OF the next fiscal year, a
balance estimated by the bureau OF
the budget at 666000,000, out OF
which the bureau hopes to save $685.
100000 for redemption OF the public
debt in addition to the ordinary APP
preparation therefor.
| Among the relief proposals is
measure which would create a new
bureau OF marketing for agricultural
and live stock products in the depart
ment OF commerce. The head OF the
bureau, an official at $4,000 salary
would devote his attention to extend
ing markets for hogs, cattle, sheep
pork and beef products, corn, wheat
cotton, oats, barley and rye, and Woulo
| be empowered to take over shipping
board vessels to transport such prod
ucts abroad. The bill carries an ap-
Another bill would appropriate
$500. 100000 with which the govern
ment would be authorized and direct
ed to buy wheat in 1924 and 1925 al
jS1.50 bushel for number one spring
wheat and proportionate prices fol
other grades. The corporation through
which this would be done is to be
owned by the government. After buy
ing the wheat the corporation would
be authorized to dispose of it at such
prices and on such terms as it deems
l.best for the public welfare.
The government would buy the 1924
crop of wheat at s. bushel for num-
! Der one northern spring wheat, under
still another proposal. 1t would also
buy the corn crop and the cotton crop
the former at price OF - cents a
bushel. the latter at 80 cents pound
In addition. it would purchase the
wool clip at IS cents pound.
Still another proposal is that there
be established live stock loan fund
lof S75,000O00 in the treasury against
which advances could be made to
farmers up to $1,000 each for the pur-
chase of live stock. This measure is
designed TO encourage live stock rails
ing in the wheat belt.
All told, the farmer is on the eve
OF receiving the close attention OF
congressional economists who differ
widely in their ideas as to what should
he done. There is virtual agreement
however. that the remedy should
properly come from the United States