Evening star., 1928-11-21
SPECIAL SESSION
ASKED BY BORAH
Idahoan Appeals for Congress
to Meet and Act on
Farm Relief.

An appeal for special session of
Congress to pass farm relief legislation
in accordance with the pledges of both
political parties was made by Senator
William E. Borah of Idaho, who de-
clared, in addressing the convention of
the National Grange today, that the
agricultural situation presents "the
great, immediate and imminent ques-
ton" before the American people.
"If we hesitate Senator Borah
jected, and properly subjected, to great
criticism"
AS chairman of the foreign relations
committee, Senator Borah likewise ex-
pressed hope that the Senate would
ratify the Kellogg peace treaty either
at the forthcoming regular session or at
the special session of the new Congress
which he believed should be called to
give proper consideration OF serious
pending issues. Answering critics of the
treaty, Senator Borah declared that be-
hind the pledged faith of so nations
to outlaw wear sis the organized public
opinion and conscience of the entire
world"
Wears Gold Sash.
Senator Borah was introduced to the
delegates as a brother Granger" and
wore the gold sash of the seventh
degree of the order. Referring to the
need of farm relief legislation, he said
the platforms of both parties had
placed upon all men holding Office,
regardless of politics, the responsibility
of taking hold of this problem and
solving it.
"I don't believe it Is possible to
solve it at the regular session." Senator
Borah, declared, because Of the stress
Of other matters and the short length
of the session which would not afford
sufficient time to give to a farm pro-
gram the consideration to which it Is
entitled.
II don't think we ought to go into
the short session with the spirit of
passing so much legislation through
the legislative cropper and getting
away" he added. 1.-The farm question
is not an easy one to solve. We ought
to deal with it deliberately and prop
erly at a special session."
He ridiculed the theory advanced in
some quarters that a special session
constitutes menace to business" by
retorting that some of the matters re-
quiring special legislation are more dis
turbing to the country than a special
session OF Congress would be to business.
Senator Borah, who was asked to
discuss the Kellogg treaty AS well as
farm relief, declared that the signing
of the anti-war treaty was the greatest
forward step ever taken in the history
of the world.
He answered criticism that there is
no force to make the treaty effective
by replying that the honor and good
faith of signatory nations is all that
is behind any other treaty. $50 when
they say there is nothing behind this
treaty to enforce it," Borah declared,
II say that that is all we have behind
any treaty. In this pact we have the
good pledge of nations to settle their
controversies without resorting to war;"
The grange delegates are holding q
joint session this afternoon at the VIII
lard Hotel with delegates attending the
sessions of land grant colleges.
Ask Transfer Of Bureau.
Transfer of the Bureau of Reclama-
ton from the Department of the
Interior to the Department of Agricul-
ture was asked in a resolution introduc-
ed at the convention by Albert S. Goss
executive committee. Back of this
resolution Is the desire to bring the
| Governments land reclamation policies
into line with the generally expressed
idea that there should be no more lands
brought into cultivation by the use of
Government funds until such time as
the present surplus problem Is disposed
of. The Department of Agriculture is
believed to favor this policy. =,
Another resolution offered by George
p. Harrison, master of California State
Grange, would place the national body
!, on record as protesting against any
legislation which will "by the use of
public funds add another acre to that
already under cultivation" The Ma
tional Grange, at its 1925 convention,
went on record as opposed to bringing
more land into cultivation through the
use of public funds until such time as
the commodities produced on the farms
can be sold at profit by farmers.
Curtis Is Guest.
Vice President-elect Charles Curtis
was the guest of honor at the after
noon session yesterday, and in an in
formal talk. urged cooperation between
farmers representatives and leaders in
Congress to effect solution of farm
relief problems.
Admitting that "a serious situation"
faces agriculture, Senator Curtis never
theless expressed the opinion that Con-
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