Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-03
SENATE TAKES UP
FARM HELP BILL
BY MAJORITY VOTE
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raise the price of flour to his constft-
UNITS, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
said he would object to the agreement
unless the vote on the farm bill was
postponed until Friday or Saturday of
| next week. Whereupon, Senator Dill
of Washington declared he wished
some assurance that the conference re-
port on the radio bill would be given
its day in the Senate.
Senator George of Georgia said he
would not agree to a vote on the farm
bill unless it was postponed until the
last of next week. Whereupon Sen
ator Smoot of Utah announced that
if it was proposed to put off the vote
on the farm bill or the banking bill
beyond next week, he would object to
the agreement.
Tobacco Aid Helps.
Farm relief legislation--more par
ticularly the Nary-Haugen bill
swung into a march today which
promises to be triumphant. Only a
f1libuster in the Senate until the close
of the present session, it appeared,
could prevent its passage, though
probably with some amendments.
There are votes enough and to spare
in the Senate to pass the measure.
AS the Senate met today Senator
McNary, of Oregon, sponsor OF the
bill in the Senate, was prepared to
offer a unanimous consent agreement
which would bring vote on the Nc
Nary Haugen bill Monday at 4 pm.
and on the McF'adden banking bill
Wednesday at 4 pm.
ClOture Petitions Circulated.
If this agreement is not entered
into, and there Is grave doubt that 1t
will succeed, then Senator McNary
will move Immediately to take up the
farm relief bill and make it the I'm
finished business of the Senate.
Twin petitions for cloture on the
McNary- Haugen farm bill and the
McF'adden banking bill were being cir
culated among the Senators to assure
votes on these measures at the present
session if the unanimous consent
agreement is not entered into. Sena-
tors supporting these two measures
have formed an alliance to bring
about votes on both, believing that
through such an alliance they will be
effected Under the cloture rule of
the Senate a rwo-thirds vote is re-
quired to invoke the limitation of
debate. If the Senate votes cloture,
after a day has elapsed each Senator
is permitted to speak only one houi
on all amendments and the bill.
1t is Senator McNary's intention t.
keep the farm bill before the Senate
until it is disposed of, once it is made
the unfinished business.
In the House, where there has been
some doubt as to the ability of the
friends of the bill to put it through
farm leaders today insisted they had
the votes that the margin in favor
of the bill would run to 40 or more
The reason for this prediction of vic
tory was the announced reversal OF
the attitude of the big tobacco coop
eratives. Members of the House from
the tobacco districts, hitherto bitterly
hostile to the farm relief Legislation
as drawn, have swung over to it
almost in a body. They have asket
that tobacco be included in the scop,
of the bill as one of the basic farm
commodities.
Sponsors for the Haugen- Nary
bill have agreed to accept a tobacco
amendment, offered from the floor o
the House. In turn, a big bloc of votes
that were opposed to the bill last ses-
sion will be delivered to the bill when
it reaches a vote in the House about
Saturday of next week
More Votes for Ii.
1t was variously estimated that from
10 to 20 new votes, possibly a few
more, would lineup for the Haugen-
McNary bill as a result of this shift of
position on the part of the tobacco
group. Last session, Kentucky voteG