Evening star., 1925-11-10
CONGRESS FAVORS
FARM LEGISLATION
Even City Members Realize
Need of Square Deal"
for Food Producers.
BY WILL =. KENNEDY.

tive leaders. it is interesting to see
what the attitude OF Congress is to-
ward the effort to aid the farming
interests
Congress will give a sympathetic
Tearing to this administration meas
lue and to some score or more Of
other bills and resolutions that will
he presented. and legislation that
VIII be II real help to the dirt farm
eFs viii probg bly, result. The prln
'ipal effort lE Congress will be to
shorten the distance and lessen the
increasing costs between producer
and consumer.
Senator Capper, leader OF the farm
block, and many other members of
both House and Senate have been
studying the farm problem during
The time Congress has not been III
session. Senator Capper has been
working on a measure which he in
tended to offer as soon as Congress
met. He will probably merge his pro-
posals with the program being
worked out by the Department of
Agriculture, which will carry the
commercial features advocated by
Secretary Hoover. and viii be recon-
mouG"d 10 Congress for early favor
apie action by the President.
Views OF Members Sought.
~ an effort 70 see just what the gen.
tfdi run OF sentiment in Congress is
on the Subjec; of farm legislation. in
t"rvi"Ws We're sought with members
not particularly identified with farm
ing interests or previous attempts for
farmer relief legislation and this in
Guided some city members. because
Ieretufor there has been a fight against
the farm measures by city interests.
Representative F. +. Patterson, jr.
OF Camden, \. J., Republican, news
I1IhlIShaI- and ha
Additional farm legislation is needed
70 protect the farmer. who is the back
hone of business and of the country,
and who derives too little profit from
his endeaVOrS. The CurtiS-ASwell bill
THE Yoakum plan of cooperation ap-
I@alS strongly to me. though would
favor any progressive plan or legisla-
ton that would enable the farmers to
help themselves to Il position of sta
blity."
Representative James T. Begg. Re
publican, from the thirteenth Ohio dis
ttlct, who was born on a farm and
who has the ear and confidence of
Speaker LOngworth says: Il cannot
see any need Of additional farm legisa-
ton now. There may be some reCtify-
ing needed of the laws already on
the statute books, but laws cannot be
passed which viii put value in com
moditieS." "
o,
publican, & member of the commerce
committee. says: Il am open-minded
ON the question of additional farm
legislation. ! have not been convinced
that any of the legislation so far pro-
posed would prove advantageous to
the farming interests"
Charles +. kiefner. from the thir-
teenth district of Missouri. new
member who has been in the retail
lumber business for 81 years, and
president for many years OF the South
eastern Missouri Lumbermen's Asso-
citation, says: Il believe there is need
for additional farm legislation. The
farmers must be placed on an equal
footing with all other classes of citi-
bens. The past few years of defla-
tion have demonstrated his inequality
or inability to compete with other
Industries"
No Subsidy" Wanted
Representative Aiming S. Pran,
Democrat, Of West New Brighton. n.
Y, says: IF Congress can supply or
provide by legislation anything to
help Gods good sunshine and rain to
help the farmers, 1 am for it
Representative John y. Tillman,
Democrat, from Fayetteville, Ark,
says: by all means we must have
additional farm legislation to improve
the rather hard condition of the food
producers. The Curtis-Aswell bill has
merit"
Representative w. B. Bowling,
Democrat, from La Fayette, Ala,
says: There is need for additional
farm legislation. of a certain kind;
no subsidy legislation; no legislation
putting the Government in the farm
ing business; but a simple law like
the Curtis-Aswell bill, administered
by friends Of the farmers, designed
to give control of the distribution OF
agriCultural' products to the farmers,
Just as they now have control of pro
CiuCtion.'
Senator Kenneth McKellar. Demo
crat. Of Memphis. Tenn, says: There
Is need Of additional farm legislation
of the right kind
John C. Allen, a new Republican
member from the fourteenth Illinois
district, who succeeds Judge William
!. Graham, stanch administration
1nan, who was born on a Vermont
farm, formerly Secretary of State of
Nebraska, 4 big business man and
banker, also declares there is need
for a farmers relief measure.
Senator Cole l.. Blease. Democrat,
from South Carolina, also advocates
legislation to help the farmers.
So also does Senator Morris Shep-
pard, Democrat. of Texas.
The veteran Representative Charles
Z. Fuller of Belvidere, H., says: IF
anything can be worked out to give
relief to the agricultural industry l
would like to see it given a trial
Representative Elmer Thomas,
Democrat. from the sixth Oklahoma
district, says: Yes, I am in favor
Of additional farm legislation"
Majority Favor Action.
W. r. Coyle. a new Republican
member from bethlehem, Pa, who Is
farmer member" says: Il am in
cIined to think that the farmers will
work out their own salvation unless
too much class legislation hinders or
sets back this consummatton. much to
he desired. If the farmers of the past
have suffered, it has been from too
much, rather than too little, legislation,
and. as old Uncle Josh said, He amt
by hisself IN that
DR. W. T. Fitzgerald. another new
Republican member from Greenville
Ohio, feels that the need for additional
farm legislation is ION limited lines
only"
Representative Roy G. Fitzgerald.
Republican. from Dayton. Ohio. says:
mo: there is no need for additional
legislation for the farmer
Thus they run, with the majority
sentiment in Congress being that II
a. way can be found to aid the farm
ing industry it should be embodied in
legislation. The Department of Ag-
riculture, after intensive study and
conferences with leaders in all phases
of this greatly diversified industry,
feels that a program is being drafted
that will give a. very large measure of
relief. President Coolidge Is sold to