The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-09
Am AGREEMENT
IS REACHED ON
FARM PROBLEM
Administration and Farm
Bloc Are in Accord on
Methods to BE Used
JARDINE ENDORSES BILL
Conference Between Jardinc
and Dickinson Makes Out
look Clearer

Chicago. Jan. 0.-(R)--Checrinf
news came to the grain belt today il
the announcement from Washington
that the administration and the farm
bloc were in agreement as to tint
most advisable means of tackiin,
the farm surplus problem.
As three midwestern conference.
turned searchlight on, the ills Of
the tillers Of the soil and mapped ou,
programs for farming betterment
Washington advices spoke of a clear
er outlook Of agriculture legislation
at the present congress as resul,
of conferences between Secretar,
Jardine and Representative Dickin
son of iowa, farm bloc leader.
Secretary Jardine endorsed a ma
jor;ty of the proposals in Mr.. Dick
inson's house bin for the disposa
of exportable surpluses of grain ant
provisions through cooperative asso
Citations, while the Iowa representa-.
tive said he felt sure the bill coulc
be amended to meet the Secre:ary'i
views without impairing its clfec
tiveness.
News From Grain Pits Favorable
Additional favorable news was re-
corded in the principal grain trading
pits, July and September corn clos
ing we'll above 80 cents yesterday, il
az bulge following speculative buyinl
incident to the offer of an implelnen,
corcern to trade merchandise Il
farmers on the basis of 81 corn
Wheat and oats followed the lead ol
corn in climbing higher.
Iowa's committee of fifty, meeting
in Des Moines, has called confer
ence OF ten corn belt states for late
this month to harmOnize the demand.
to congress for farm relief lcglsla
tion, concentrating on a plan for ,
federal export corporation to dis
pose Of surplus crops.
Representatives of Nebraska
farming industry voted ut Linc0l,
to place the state on record rs de-
nEanding farm relief from congress:
designed ito place agriculture on ar
equal basis with labor and industry
in the American protective system"
A third conference, concerned Wltf
the corn situation, was in progress.
at Morris. Ill.,, today.
Some Reservations Made
The Washington News stated tha,
Secretary Jardine's endorsement o.
the Dickinson bill was qualified with
several reservations as to some Of its
provisions. These were not speci
fled, and no reference was made t.
the equalization fee proposed by The
bill to be levied upon producers tG
meet possible losses in the marketing
Of surplus. No response came from
the White House as to the admins
tration's views on the equalization
proposal.
Mr.. Jardine asserted he had "con
sistently favored establishment oi
such q farm-controlled agency q.
proposed in the Dickinson bill, ant
/ that he had likewise been outspoker
both in statements and in his an
nual report in favor of utilizing ex.
listing cooperative machinery and in
extending it for dealing with thu
surplus problems"
The Dickinson bill was drafted af.
ter conferences with several farm
organizations, including those repre-.
sented at q recent Des Moines con.
ference. The author has maintained
that under the bill the government
would not engage in private busi.
ness, would only appropriate money
for salaries and expenses of a gov.
erning board and that no elements OF
price fixing were involved.
Many Invited To Des Moines Meet.
ing
Governors, senators, representa-.
tives and leaders of financial, com.
mercial, and farm organizations
from Minnesota, Indiana, Illino ois
Nebraska, North and South Dakota
Ohio and Wisconsin will be invited
to the Des Moines conference, which
probably will be held between the
22nd and 28th of January. In reso.
lutions adopted at yesterdays pre-.
liminary conference, wider use OF
corn was urged, and every person in
the state was asked to purchase q
pound Of corn sugar month. At the
Lincoln meeting, the Nebraska gov.
ernor was empowered to appoint .
committee of nine to represent the
state at the Iowa meeting.
As the corn conference got under
way in Morris, it developed that few
corn products were available on the
shelves of local merchants. Sis
thousand pounds Of corn sugar have
been sold there within week at q
retail price of I-4 cents.
The move to popularize the use o1
corn, and particularly corn sugar
has met with opposition from John
Trouble of Salina, Kansas, president
of the Kansas Farmers Union, who
asserted that one commodity could
not be boosted without injuring an.
other. Ha also expressed opposition
TO the plan of the International Har.
vester company to trade implements
for 81 corn, calling it . "corn gam.
bile" The plan was favofably re-
ccivea by Governor John Hammill oi
Iowa, and N. G. Thornburg, state sec.
retary Of agriculture.
THE CHARLESTON RECORD
y Milton. Mass, Jan. 9.-tA)- -Fid-
ding contests may soon give way ia