Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
McNary Declares He Will Not
Press Farm Aid Bill in
Present Congress.
TARIFF CHANGE NEED
AIDS PLANS ADVOCATES
Hoover Will Leave for Florida
Wednesday or Thursday.
Sees Donovan.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

When President-elect Herbert Hoover
leaves Washington this week to go to
Florida, he will carry with him the
definite impression that special ses-
sion OF the Seventy-first Congress this
Spring to handle farm relief and tariff
revision is inevitable. 1t is unlikely,
however, that Mr.. Hoover will make
any announcement of his plans for a
call of a special session until later.
During the campaign, he said defin-
itely that unless farm legislation were
put through III the present short ses-
sion, he would call Congress into special
session after he had become President
to deal with the problem. This has
been interpreted as meaning that the
special session would be held soon after
he entered the White House.
McNary Not to Push Bill.
Senator McNary, chairman of the
committee on agriculture, after visiting
Mr.. Hoover yesterday, let it be known
that he had no intention of taking UP
the farm bill in his committee with a
view to pressing it at this session. His
committee will continue to hold its
meetings but it will be to deal with
other measures than the so-called farm
relief bill, which Senator McNary in
troduced early in the present session
and which has had the Endorsement of
the Coolidge administration.
Strenuous effort was made by some
of the Republican leaders in Congress
to win Mr.. Hoover over to open approval
Of the pending McNary bill with a re-
quest that it be enacted at the present
session. Mr.. Hoover, however, since
his arrival in Washington from mis-
South American trip, has let it be
definitely understood that he did not
intend to mix in with the legislative
situation, or to encroach in any way
upon the prerogatives of President Cool
idge, who Is Chief Executive. Mr..
Hoover has listened to the arguments
pro and con the special session idea
and has not committed himself IN any
way.
1t has been made evident, however.
that the situation in the Senate and
House made 1t practically impossible to
get through farm bill now and SO
forestall a special session in the Spring.
Those who have advocated tackling the
farm problem in a special session have
had the aid of those who are anxious
for tariff revision at similar session.
Has Busy Week.
The PreSident-elect has spent busy
week in Washington. He has received
nearly all the Republican members of
the Senate at his headquarters in the
Mayfiower Hotel or at his own home
here. He has had presented to him a
comprehensive view of the legislative
situation and the demands of the vari-
Gus sections of the country. He has
had long list of men, at least one
woman, Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Ken
lucky, recommended to him for ap-
pointment to his cabinet. So far the
PreSident-elect has given no sign to
indicate whom he will select for cabinet
office Nor is it likely there will be any
announcement of the cabinet selections
for weeks to come, probably not until
the last week in February, if then. The
names of the new cabinet will, of course,
be transmitted to the Senate which
meets in special executive session i'm
mediately after Mr.. Hoover shall have
been inaugurated President. 1t is quite
clear that Mr.. Hoover does not intend
to announce at this early date his
cabinet and in effect lay it open to at
tack and criticism by those who may
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