Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-10
SENATE AND HOUSE
DEBATE FARM BILL
Haugen Opens Fight in Lower
BranCh-Final Vote
in Sight.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
With a final vote in sight within
the next few days by both branches
OF Congress, Senate and House today
gave over their time to the airing of
the diverse views OF members over the
McNary Haugen bill, which has been
given the legislative right of way.
Chairman Haugen of the House ag-
riculture committee, whose name the
measure bears. led off for its advo-
Gates in the House with the assertion
that it represented the best thought
OF the countfy's agricultural minds,
while In the Senate Senator Nye. Re-
publican, North Dakota, declared that
unless 1t were enacted the farmers
would be driven to drastic action.
Nye Opens Senate Debate.
"If the bin is revolutionary in char.
acter," Nye said. let us not forget
that we are charged with dealing with
a condition most revolutionary in
character.
That hackers of the McNary- -Haugen
measure will have to fight off consid-
erable opposition was indicated by the
oratorical fireworks that were ignited
Yesterday i'm the Senate and House,
which eliminated in adoption by the
latter of resolution providing for inn
mediate consideration of the bill. with
general debate limited to IL hours.
After this, amendments will be in or
der.
Prior to this action, taken without a
record vote, the House rejected, ZIG to
146, motion to give similar legisla-
tive status to the Curtis Crisp bill,
which omits the equalization fee.
The agricultural situation was pic
tured in O discussion in both houses
as one of the most serious ever to con-
front the Nation. Much of the debate
for and against the McNary- -Haugen
plan. however. was along lines similar
to that of the last three years during
which the question has been before
Congress.
Banking Bill as Club.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, served notice that he would
strive to prevent final action on the
McFadden branch banking bill until
President Coolidge signed the Nc
Nary Haugen measure. He is ex-
pected to be supported in this move
by those Democratic and Republican
Senators who refused to become a
party to the agreement between sup
porters of the two measures to in
woke cloture on both unless voting
headlines were fixed.
Wheeler also warned that he would
again seek an investigation Of forces
working to the farmers detriment,
and charged Secretaries Mellon, Jar
dine and Hoover with being un-
friendly to agriculture.
Only a few Senators took part in
the discussion on the right side of
the Copitol, while on the left more
than half dozen Representatives
entered the debate for and against
the equalization levy proposal. Sup
porters claimed the bill would not
raise living costs and attacked the
stand taken by Eastern newspapers
on the question, while opponents
dashed the proposals as a price fixing
and unconstitutional measure and
laid the farmers ills to a protective
tariff.
Principal Aims of Bill
Promotion of orderly marketing OF
certain basic agricultural commodities
and control and disposition of crop
surpluses to prevent price fluctuations
are. in a broad way, the principal
aims of the McNary- Haughen bill.
The bill creates Federal farm board
composed of the Secretary of Agri
culture. ex offlcio. and a member from
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