The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
N. Y. DEMOCRATS
MAY FAVOR FARM
RELIEF MEASURE
Nelson Says Veto Would
Defeat Coolidge

WASHINGTON, Eeb. l3.-ln an
attempt to place President Coolidge
in an embarrassing position by PIN
ming him down on a highly contro-
versial issue, Tammany Hall is exert
ing pressure upon the New York DEM
Ocratic members of the house to force
the McNary-Haugen bill thru con-
gress in its present form.
This move was inspired by west
ern democratic leader, who declared
that the Smith presidential boom
wouldn't. stand a ghost of a chance
in the west if Tammany Hall comes
out. solidly against the bill, according
to one prominent member of the Tam
many group. OF the twenty-five
democrats in the house not one voted
in the bills favor last May.
Chances Improve.
The new position OF the New York
democrats and the surprising major
ity which the bill received IN the SEN
ate, Friday, have strengthened wav-
ering members OF the house. Hope
that the bin will be defeated there
has been abandoned by administra-
ton leaders.
The determined stand of members
Of the farm bloc was indicated by
Representative Nelson's speech to-
day, in which he declared that if Cool
idge vetoes the McNary- Haugen bill,
republicans would make Frank 0.
Lowden, former Governor of Illinois,
their standard-bearer in 1928.
CoOlidge--D. d.
1--WE are told that it viii not be
worth while to pass the Haugen-Mc-
Nary bill, as the president will fail
to approve Representative Nelson
said. 'As to this / do not know, but
i do not hesitate to say that if there
is veto the initials of the White
House spokesman will not be c. G.
but d. d. All the dead ducks will
not be in the house, but as | think
of the shadow of Lowden lengthening
in the land, "a giant staff in a giant
hand / imagine / can hear the pres
ident say feebly, Pass the pen,
please >"
dEHeIS dllNE.
Predicting the victory Of the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill in view Of the
Lowden boom, Representative Nelson
pointed out the need for farm-re-
lief measure. with more than 5000
bank failures during the Harding and
Coolidge administrations, 1872 Of
these in Missouri, and with farm
bankruptcies increased more than 600
per cent, even the purveyors Of po-
litical propaganda are learning that
it is impossible to fool all the people
all the time.
"All through the agricultural sec
tons of the United States today
newspapers are carrying legal notices
having to do with farm foreclosures,
sheriff sales and taxes overdue. The
farmers are thoroughly discouraged"
Probably viii Veto.
That President Coolidge will veto
the bill if it passes the house, demo-
cratic leaders consider fairly certain.
Favoring as Coolidge and his friend
Butler do the textile interests, he is
especially opposed to the feature Of
the bill which would fix cotton prices.
The recent drop in cotton prices,
which impoverished the cotton far
mer, was a blessing to the textile in
terests.
To avert the danger of the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill failing in confer
ence, members of the farm bloc will
make an attempt to jam it through
in the form that it passed the senate.
Just Strategy.
Those Sin the know" regard it as
merely political move, important
because the farmers may conceivably
expect some good for it, and be in
favor of it. No one thinks that it
will actually assist the farmers, but
textile mill and flour mill groups fear
it as a precedent that may lead to
more effective statutes.