Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-24
Amendment Providing Half of
$3.50, ,OOO,O 900 Fund for
Cotton Adopted.
DEFEAT OF MEASURE
BY ONE is PREDICTED
Some of Senators Backing McNary
Change May Not Approve Plan
in Final Ballot.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

First blood went to the supporters
of the McNaryHaugen bill in the
| fight today in the Senate over that
measure.
| BY vote of so to 33, an amendment
providing that SIS 900 900 of the $780,
i 100000 revolving fund set up by tho
! bill should be used for cotton was
| adopted
This amendment was put out as
| a lure to the Democratic Senator's
| from the cotton States. a Combina-
| ton of the Senators from the West
and Middle West supporting the bill
and of Senators from the South put
| the amendment across.
Some of the Senators who voted
| for the amendment. however. may
| not vote for the bill on its final
! passage.
! AS soon as the McNary amend
| ment had been voted into the bill
] Senator Williams, Republican. of
| Missouri moved to strike from the
! bill a provision eXempting the cot
| ton farmers from the payment of an
/ equalization fee for the next three
years and providing that even then
| the fee should not be applied 10 cot
ton until specifically authorized by
| Congress-.
Defeat is Predicted.
| The defeat of the bill by the narrow
| margin of one vote loomed as d prob
ability today.
| So close, however, is the vote that
| some supporters of the bill still clung
| to the hope that it would pass. The
! fear of the opponents of the bill was
! that the political eXigencies of the mo-
ment would be SO strong when the
| final roll call was taken that Senators
| would swing to the support Of the bill
and it would be carried.
! The demand of the agricultural
| States OF the West for this character
| of farm relief legislation on the one
hand and the desire OF some of the
| Democrats on the other to put the
| President in hole" by forcing him to
| veto the bill are the two main inn
| pelling political factors in the situa-
ton.
! AS the Senate assembled today, op.
ponents of the bill, after as careful
Il check of the entire membership of
the Senate as possible, believed they
had the measure beaten by one vote,
| unless their should be a final last
minute switch on the part of one or
more Senators.
Divide Over Preference.
Last night it appeared that the vote
would stand 43 TO Al for the passage
of the bill, with the absentees and
pairs taken into consideration. But
since then it has developed that one
of the Senators who was reported TO
be paired in favor of the bill is really
opposed TO the bill and will be so
paired when the vote comes.
Dawes May Vote.
So close is the contest that Vice
| President Dawes may be forced to
cast the deciding vote, as he is priv
| ileged to do should there be a tie
vote of the Senate today.
How the Vice President would vote
under such conditions has been the
matter of much speculation. He has
! given his approval to the economic
principle involved in the bill, though
not to the details of the measure
The Vice President, it is under
stood. however, will vote against, the
bill unless the provisions are changed
so as to put the cotton farmers on
an equality with the other farmers
of the country.
One leader of the opposition de-
clared emphatically that if tie vote
! happened. the Vice President would
vote for the passage of the BILL On
the other hand, a leader favoring the
bill was equally positive that the
| Vice President would not put himself
! in absolute opposition to the President
and his administration by voting for
the bill.
Adjournment i'm Balance.
The probable date of adjournment
! of Congress also hangs in the balance.
depending on the Senate action today.
If the farm relief bill is defeated. it
is predicted that final adjournment of
congress will take place next week.
If the bill passes the Senate and is
sent to the House, the session may
be prolonged for a month.
| The log rolling" which has been in
| process for the last two weeks while
the farm relief bill has been before
the Senate is amazing. Efforts of the
| supporters of the bill to win votes
through this and that amendment
| have been made many times. For a
long time 1t appeared that the bill had
little chance of passing, some Of the
Democrats fearing that if they gave
free rein to their political predelic-
tions for putting the President in a
hole, they would defeat themselves.
They feared that he might sign the
bill instead of veto it. The letter re-
Treasury Mellon, however, crystallized
opinion at the Capitol to a consider
able extent that the President would
veto the bill If it should be sent to
him. This brought change and a
nuNber Of the Democrats swung over
to the supporters of the measure.
:. Vote Today Likely.
Under a unanimous consent agree
ment entered into. debate in the Sen
ate on the farm bill was limited after
1 o'clock today to minutes to each
Senator on the bill or any amend
ment. Under such conditions leaders
on both sides of the measure expect
to vote on the bill before adjourn
ment today.
A raft of amendments has been
offered and await action. Senator
Reed of Missouri. Democrat, has an
amendment in the nature OF a sub
stitute which would set up the pro-
visions of the Underwood-Sirnmo
tariff law instead of the present tariff
law. Senator Robinson, the Demo-
cratic leader, also has pending a sub
stitute.
1.-THE substitute which 1 propose"
said Senator Robinson Of Arkansas.
o,;,xe, ha oroation nf "a farmer