The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-15
AGRICULTURAL ILLS
May Be ALLEWATED
BY REMEDIAL ACTION
New Law Provides for $780,.
100000 Appropriation to
Be Used by Farm Board
TO TACKLE SURPLUS SMART.
Will Set Up Series Of Stabiliza-
ton Corporations and
Commodity Councils
TO TACKLE SURPLUS sNARL

Washington. June 15.-lP)-Presi-
dent Hoover with stroke Of the pen
today placed in effect the new farm
relief policies which his administra.
ton had drawn to alleviate the Ills
Of agriculture.
Climaxing months Of campaigning.
gressional controversy, the president
with ceremony appropriate to such m
event, wrote his name across the farm
measure and thereby placed It upon
the statute books.
The signature was affixed in the
presence Of q group Of congressional
leaders which included Vice President
Curtis. Speaker Longworth. Secretary
Hyde Of the department Of agricul.
ture, and q number Of farm leaders
of the house and senate.
Controversy lS Ended
Weeks Of work by agriculture COM
mitteeS Of the two houses; days Of
dispute between two determined bod
les. and countless hours Of debate
were closed late yesterday with the
senate finally accepting the bill with.
out the export debenture plan 50
steadfastly objected to by Mr.. Hoo
yer.
After this final action at the capi.
tol the measure was rushed to the
white house so that no time would
be lost In its presentation to the chief
executive, who Immediately made ar-
rangements for today's ceremonies.
The new farm law embodies m au.
thorization for an appropriation Of
$500, ,O0O, 900 to be used by the federal
farm board In an effort to solve the
surplus crop situation through . se-
ries Of stabuization corporations and
commodity councils.
Beard Ms 1Blemtets
The farm board will constst Of nine
members, eight to be appointed BY
the president while the secretary Of
agriculture will make the ninth. Spec
ulation already has been going the
rounds over whom the chief executive.
will select and q number Of names
have been mentioned for the posts.
Enactment of the farm bill marked
the achievement Of the first goal set
by Mr.. Hoover in calling the special
session. The tariff. the other major
question, still remains before the sen.
ate.
In signing the bill today. however.
Mr.. Hoover had the satisfaction Of
knowing that one of the major prob
lens Of the campaign had been acted
upon.
The president and the congressional
leaders were bathed In Photographic
flood lights as the chief executive
wrote his name on the measure.
Uses Two Pens
This is we'll signed BILL" observed
Senator McNary. Republican. Oregon,
q member Of the famous McNary-
Haugen team. adding that the pres
ident had gone through the motions
three times.
Mr.. Hoover used two pens in At
taching his signature writing Her.
bert" with one and Hoover" with the
other. He handed one pen to Senator
McNary and the other to Represent
alive Haugen, chairmen Of the gen.
ate and house agricultural commit
tees. respectively.
It was exactly 1903 when the bill
was signed.
Ends Years Of Labor
The measure, marking the culmin-
alton of years of political and legis-
lative effort to solve the economic
problems of agriculture, was the
last Of three major farm relief bills
sent to the white house by recent
congresses and the only one known
in advance to be acceptable to the
chief executive. The other two, the
McNary-Hauge bills, both con-
tanned equalization fee provisions
which proved just rs Objectionable
to former President Coolidge q the
debenture plan was to Mr.. Hoover.
The new bill was taken to the
white house personally by Secretary
Hyde late yesterday sitter Speaker
Longworth and Vice President Cur
tis had signed it, shortly after the
senate, voting "a to 8, had accepted
the second report Of its represeuta-
tives in the joint conference negotia4
tions with the house recommendiue
elimination Of the debenture mo-
vision. The house had expressed
its approval earlier without . roll
call.