Evening star., 1928-10-27
FARM AID SESSION
.PLEDGEDBY HOOVER
. IF NEED CONTINUES
Failure of Congress to Act
This Fall viii Mean
Special Call.
HOLDS RELIEF NEEDED
WITHIN SHORT PERIOD
Increased Tariff, Marketing Pro-
gram and Board Creation In
volved in Relief Plan.

volved in Relief Plan.
Herbert Hoover announced today that
If the Republican party is returned to
power he would call an extra session of
Congress to deal with farm relief if
adequate legislation should not be en-
acted at the coming session.
"The question of special session of
Congress after March 4 in the event of
the return of the Republican party has
been under discussion for some time, "
said formal statement issued by the
Republican presidential candidate.
There are a number of questions,
particularly agricultural relief, which
urgently require solution and should
not be delayed for a whole year. It is
our most urgent economic problem.
Would Permit No Delay.
"I should hope it can be dealt with
at the regular session this Fall and
thus special session avoided. If, how
ever, that cannot be accomplished I
would, if elected, not allow the matter
to drift and would of necessity call an
extra session so as to secure early con-
Structive action"
Under the Hoover plan the new Con-
gress to be elected on November 6
would be summoned to Washington,
perhaps in April, with the hope that
an agricultural measure embodying his
program for farm relief could be en-
acted in time for its operation in the
handling of the 1929 crop.
This Is the program which Senator
Borah of Idaho proposed in formal
statement late yesterday. While both
Hoover and Borah are hopeful of action
by the present Congress, the session to
start early in December will continue
only three. months under law and usual
ly little general legislation has been
enacted at these short sessions because
of the pressure of enacting the annual
supply bills.
Long Delays Otherwise.
If special session of the new Con-
gress were not called, after failure of
the present Congress to act, 1t would
be two years before farm relief meas
ure could be brought into actual opera
ton.
Hoover's program for relief, as out
lined in his speech of acceptance and
reiterated in his West Branch, Iowa,
and Elizabethton, Tenn, addresses, calls
first for increased tariff protection for
farm produCtS, more adequate market
ing program and the creation of farm
board to which would be given Federal
financial aid In handling the crop sur
pluseS.
In his forthcoming speech at St Louis
on November 2 the Republican presi-
Dental candidate Is expected to go
more into the actual details of his
farm aid proposal, outlining each more
In detail, both as to structure and the
methods of operation.
President Coolidge is expected to deal
with agricultural relief in his final an
nual message to Congress in December,
and 1t is known that agricultural lead
ers in the two houses will urge enact
ment of some of the pending measures
which are designed to bring relief to
the Nations basic industry.
BOrah Meets Hoover.
Senator Borah discussed the farm
problem during a luncheon-c conference
with Hoover yesterday afternoon. There
were indications that Hoover sent for
Borah with a view to obtaining his
views upon the special session pro-
posal.
How much the announcement of
Senator George w. Norris that he would
support the Democratic presidential
candidate came into the discussion be-
tween Borah and Hoover was not re-
vealed. However, it is known that
measures are under consideration for
offsetting the effect that the Norris
declaration may have had in the agri-
cultural West
Borah himself has declined to dis
Gus the move of Senator Norris, eX-
NlofH ,{xnnr I1a 7ret IN n
the text of the speech the Nebraskan will
make at Omaha tonight-his first on
behalf of the candidacy of Gov. Alfred
E. Smith. 1t may be that after that
speech Borah and some others of the
Republican independents of the Senate
who have been closely associated with
Norris in the fight for what has been
denominated as progressive legislation
will have statements to make.
Hoover Talks With Women.
A further exposition of his views re-
garding women in industry was given
by Hoover yesterday in talks with Miss
Elizabeth Christmas of Chicago and
Mrs. Raymond Robins, chairman of the
industrial women's division of the Re-
publican national committee.
II am absolutely with you in your et-
forts to get adequate labor legislation
for women" the nominee told Mrs.
Christman, who is secretary of the Ma
tional Women's Trades Union League.
such legislation establishes stand
ards for industry which, although they
already exist in voluntary agreements
between many employers and the
organized workers, must be written in
to law to bring up the laggards of in
dustry.
"On this subject I have not altered
my opinion expressed in 1920. If
women in industrial occupations are
to be protected equally with men, they
must have safeguards additional to
those provided for men. favor the
laws limiting hours of labor, with pro-
gressively higher standards in accord
ance with the purposes of organized
working women. I should greatly de-
plore any weakening of the existing
regulations or any interference with
their extension"
The candidate also was told by Fred
erick H. Fljozdal of Detroit, president
of the Brotherhood of Maintenance OF
Way Employees, and Arthur j. Lowell
of washington. vice president of the