Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-14
Conferees Agree to Recede
From Their Support OF
Debenture Plan.
PRESIDENT is EXPECTED
: TO SIGN BILL AT ONCE
Robinson Declares Measure Would
Have Been Stronger With
Debenture Clause.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The long struggle to enact farm
relief legislature is ending In the
Senate today Before that body ad-
journs tonight it will have adopted the
conference report on the farm bill, 1t
was confidently predicted, and the bill
will be ready to go the President for
his approval.
The House agreed to the conference
report on the farm bill. with the de-
benture clause stricken out, few min
utes after that body assembled at noon
today. No record vote was taken. It
was realized that the House was over
wheln1ingly in favor OF the hnal pass
age OF the bill.
Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman
of the committee on agriculture, moved
to take up the conference report IN
the Senate soon after the action Of the
House had been reorted formally.
Senate Conferees Agree.
The conferees of the Senate and
House on the farm bill met this morn
ing and were in session only a short
time. The Senate conferees agreed I'M
mediately to recede from their support
OF the debenture plan The conference
report was then signed by all members
of the conference committee, including
Senators Norris of Nebraska and Smith
of South Carolina. who hitherto have
stood out for the debenture clause.
President Hoover is expected to sign
the. farm bill soon after it Is sent to
him, thus bringing to an end contest
for farm legislation which has existed
ever since the deflation of agriculture
following the World War.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, mi
nority leader of the Senate, attacked
the farm bill In its present form when
the conference report was laid before
the Senate for action.
In the opinion Of many Senators"
said Senator Robinson. "tl1e elinina-
ton of the debenture clause leaves the
bill in no sense superior to, legislation
that might have been enacted at any
time during the long contest over farm
relief legislation"
He said that the bill was similar to
the measure sponsored during the last
session of Congress by former Secre.
tary Jardine of the Agriculture De-
partmert. The bill. Senator Robifson
said. was generally disapproved and
Jardir1e from the cabinet.
Delayed for Direct Vote.
Senators who have supported the de-
benture plan, Senator Robinson said.
have not been responsible for long delay
of the farm bill. He said 4hey had de-
layed the bill only long enough for q
thorough understanding of the deben-
tllre plan and long enough to compel
the House to vote directly on that plan.
The House having taken vote on the
debenture plan, Senator Robinson said
he did not intend longer to prevent a
vote on the bill He said, however,
that nothing has been accomplished In
this bill except the creation of a new
board and corporation and that the
bill would have been far stronger If the
debenture clause had been included.
The farm bill. Senator Robinson said,
was also only an experiment, with or
without the debenture clause, and none
could foreten how it win work out. It's
success, he said, will depend on the
personnel of the farm board which
Is to be appointed by the President.
Further important legislation for
agriculture need not be expected In the
early future, nor until this measure
has been thoroughly tried out" said
Senator Robinson. This bill ends the
long struggle over farm relief legisla-
ton with action which many Senators
believe is inadequate and ineffective. No
truthful person can assert that the Re-
publican platform pledges of 1924 and
CT 1928 have been carried out. This
measure does not on its face promise
redemption of those pledges"
The Arkansas Senator attacked the
House tariff bill. declaring that "the
business OF farming will be hit rather
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