Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23
FARM BILL PLEAS
SWAMP PRESIDENT
Many kilograms and Visitors
Received at White House
For and Against Plan.

f, AS the time for the President to de-
eide the fate of the McNaryHauge
farm relief bill neared. lines were
drawn correspondingly tighter today
| in the vigorous campaign that Is being
waged to sway the President both to
sign and to veto the measure.
| The bills hackers, especially the
| agricultural interests of the Middle
West and the Southwest, are leaving
| nothing undone to let President Cool
| iflge know that the farmers want the
| bill to become a law. They sent their
farm organization officials to the
White House to see the President; they
| have kept constant stream or call
! ers from the House of Representa-
| tives and the Senate going to and
| from the Executive offices, and today
| they were smothering the President
beneath an avalanche of kilograms.
! Backers Predict Approval.
| Both Senator McNary. author of the
| bill on the Senate side, and Repre-
sentative Cyrenus Cole, Republican, OF
| Iowa. whose district Immediately ad-
| Joins that of Representative Haugen,
| co-author Of the bill on the House size
| called at the White House today and
after leaving the President ONCE pre-
dicted that he would sign the meas
| ure. They both agreed that his nina is
absolutely open on the question either
! of approval or veto, and that he is only
waiting for the views of members OF
! his cabinet to whom the bill has been
referred.
! Mr., Cole was in President Coolidge's
| office with Senator Stewart, RepuD-
! lican. Of Iowa, for some time. Both
said that they had told President Cool
| idge that the farmers want the NC
| Nary Haugen bill to become law ana
pointed out that they need the reilel
| it would provide. Mr.. Cole added that
although the President had not dis
closed what stand he would take in
the end, he had shown "a real desire
to sign the bill
LAS to the talk that has been going
around in some circles that the Crisp
measure might be rushed through as
q substitute in the last hours of this
Congress if the President should veto
the McNary Haugen BILL Mr.. Cole
said, that is all foolish. There will
| be no farm legislation at this Congress
if the McNary Haugen bill fails, and
believe President Coolidge would like
| to see the farmers given relief.
Fee Is Dividing Point.
For that matter. the only real diff
ference between the McNary-Haugen
BILL which is now before the Presi-
dent, having been passed by both
Houses of Congress, and the Crisp
bill, which is still in the committee
room, is the equalization fee feature
OF the former. 1t has been said that
this feature puts the Government in
the business of buying and selling
foodstuffs. If that is true the SUI
preme Court will promptly nul!ify that
feature of the bill and it will then
become virtually identical to the Crisp
; bill which some persons have said
President Coolidge would be friendly
toward.
Il believe the President understands
this and l believe he will let the
Supreme Court decide. / would like
| to see him sign the bill. l know that
the farmers of Iowa want him to sign
It and | believe that his mind is alb
solutely open on the question. Fur
thermore, l believe that President
. Coolidge, for many reasons, would like
to sign the bill too
Senate Stewart was standing near
by when Mr.. Cole made this statment
and later added his own wish to have
the bill become a law Both Senator
Stewart and Mr.. Cole said however
that they had not come to the White
House for the express purpose of dis
cussing the McNary- Haugen farm re.
lief bill, but said that the matter had
been brought up while they were in
the Presidents office
Did Not Discuss Bill.
Senator McNary said that he had
not discussed the bill with President
Coolidge. He was in the Presidents
office only a short time, but upon
| leaving said that he was confident
President Coolidge would give the
measure his approval in the end.
Senator McNary said that there is
nothing Objectionable in the measure,
and that its becoming q law is vital
to one of the Nations greatest indus
Observation-Disclosures. The farmers, Sena-
tor McNary said, are looking to the
White House for the word that will
give them the help that they must
have to go ahead.
In the meantime. no word what
ever has come from the President
himself. The White House has been
wrapt in characteristic silence on the
matter. When newspaper men in
quired as to whether or not Secretary
OF Agriculture Jardine had returned
the bill to the White House with his
comment as to it's usefulness. thew
were told that there was nothing to
be said on the measure at this time.
presumably the Treasury, the Depart
ment OF Commerce and the Depart
ment or Justice are also examining
the various phases of the measure as
they affect their particular viewpoints.