Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
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HOOVER BUSY WEEK.
Farm Relief, Law Enforce
ment and Mexican Situa-
ton Considered.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
Herbert Hoover closed his first week
in the presidency yesterday with busy
round of conferences on farm relief,
law enforcement and the first important
foreign problem of his administration,
the situation created by the Mexican
revolution.
Leaders in both the House and Senate
were included among his callers, bring
ing with them the problem of legis-
lative program for the special session
of Congress which Mr.. Hoover has
called for next month, while Secretary
Kellogg visited the White House to dis
cuss developments in the Mexican in
surrection. The State Department head
assured the President that events of
the last "a hours had given no cause
for increased alarm.
Farm Hearings to Open.
Chairman McNary of the Senate ag
riculture committee informed the Pres
ident that he intended to open hearings
shortly on farm relief measure, with
a view to having bill drafted for the
consideration of the Senate when the
special session meets April Is. 1t Is
his purpose at that time to make the
measure the Senate's unfinished busi-
ness and he predicted that it would be
disposed of within week.
Iroy,, - tbn
rules committee, Mr.. Hoover heard that
it Is proposed that the House follow
much the same plan and he, too. pre-
dicted that farm bill could be
approved by the House in less than a
week. He placed the agricultural prob
lem first upon tentative legislative
calendar followed by tariff revision and
congressional reapportionment. should
the Senate approve a bill dealing with
the latter.
Senator McNary proposes to take the
farm measure he introduced at the last
session of Congress as basis for dis
cussion at the coming hearings. This
bill provides for the establishment of a
large Federal revolving fund to assist
cooperative organizations In solving
their marketing problems and the crea-
ton of a National Farm Board to
handle the surplus crop situation.
Accord on Farm Relief.
Senator Brookhart. Republican, Iowa,
declared in the course Of q conference
with Mr.. Hoover that the Senate was
in general agreement on the essential
features of farm legislation. A suffl-
GENTLY large appropriation from the
Government, he said, would obviate any
necessity for an equalization fee.
Representative Almon, Democrat. Ala
bama, brought Muscle Shoals into the
farm discussion with recommendation
to the President that the disposition Of
this project, which has been before
Congress for more than a decade. be
included in the proposed farm relief
legislation. Mr.. Hoover. he said, did
not indicate what action he would take,
but said it seemed to him that the queS-
ton could be settled by Congress.
Other of the days callers included
Senator Harris, Democrat. Georgia, who
congratulated the President upon his
law enforcement stand; Senator Rams
dell, Democrat, Louisiana, who urged
Mr. Hoover's support for his bill Gre
ating a national department of public
health; Representative Andrew of Mas
sachusetts and the entire Kentucky
congressional delegation, who called 20
pay their respects.
Neighbor Luncheon Guest.
Aside from meeting q long list of
callers. Mr.. Hoover had as his guest at
luncheon T. T. G. Gregory, a neighbor
from Palo Alto, who served with him in
relieving postwar conditions In Europe.
The President conferred during the
afternoon with Secretary Good and Sec
rotary Davis on what were announced
as routine departmental affairs Late
in the day he received another call from
Secretary kellogg, who brought addi-
tional information on the Mexican sit
uation, but declined to make public its
nature.