Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
Predicted Action by President
Places Him in Boat With
Borah and Reed.
LOWDEN AND DAWES
FATE ALSO AT STAKE
Should Measure Be Passed, East
Will Line Up Against West at
Polls, It Is Predicted.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


After the McNary- -Haugen farm bill
what?
Some see a political deluge, with an
anti Coolidge flood riding high.
Others see the President immeas-
urably strengthened because Of his
firm stand against the bill, which is
dubbed unconstitutional and only
capable of raising prices Of foodstuffs
to the consumer.
These conjectures are predicated
upon the forecast by Senator Fess of
Ohio, Republican, and others that
President Coolidge will veto the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill.
One thing stands out clearly and
indisputably. If the McNary- -Haugen
bill is lost, either in the legislative
jam of the few remaining days Of the
present Congress or through presi-
dental veto, the Sixty-ninth Congress
will adjourn without any farm relief
legislation.
View Of Opponents.
Opponents of the bill will declare
that the McNary-Haugenites are to
blame for this situation that If they
had not been SO stiff-necked, the
Curtis-Crisp bill, or the Aswell bill,
or some other measure could have
gone through. They will charge that
underneath this refusal to yield a
jot on the principle of the Nc
Nary Haugen bill--the equalization fee
principle-runs current of political
opposition to President Coolidge. They
will charge that an effort has been
made through this uncompromising
attitude Of certain leaders in the agri
cultural States to grease the way for
the selection of former Gov. Lowden
Of Illinois, as the Republican nominee
for President. If not Gov. Lowden,
then Vice President Dawes or some
other prominent Republican, who has
the western point of view as op-
posed to that of the East and New
England.
The supporters of the McNary-
Haugen bill, on the other hand, will
say to the voters in the agricultural
States:
1--WE put the bill through. 1t could
have become a law but for the oppo-
sition OF the President"
Votes I'm Senate Interesting.
From the point of view of practical
politics, the votes in the Senate and
the expected votes in the House on
the McNary-Haugen bill, are not
without interest. Senator William L.
Borah of Idaho voted against the bill
in the Senate and so did Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri, two fore
most figures in the Senate today. Both
have been mentioned as presidential
Possibilities, one Republican and the
other a Democrat. But both are in
the same boat with President Cool
idge-if he vetoes the billion the
farm matter. Both are supposed to
be stronger in the Middle West and
the West than in the East There
were others now in the pre- sidential
gossip for 1928 who also opposed the
passage of the bill, among them Sena-
tor Walsh of Montana. Sena tor Willis
OF Ohio and Senator Glass Of Virginia.
Speaker Longworth of Ohio is against
the bill, too
Vice President Dawes has worked
faithfully to help bring about the pas
sage of the bill. He has sat in many
conferences at which differences
among the supporters and near SUP.
porters of the McNary- -Haugen bill
were ironed out. If Gov Lowden does
not prove available for the political
farm bloc as the candidate in 1928 for
the Republican nomination, then the
bloc may turn to Gen. Dawes. who
halls, too, from Illinois, a great State
and sometimes q pivotal State. Then
there is Senator Watson of Indiana.
assistant Republican leader of the
Senate. who voted for the farm bill on
the Republican side, and Senator Rob
inson Of Arkansas, the Democratic
leader.