Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-11
"Crack Of Party Lash" Is
AssaiIed by California
Republican.
ADMINISTRATION LEADER
PREDICTS. TIE IN VOTE
Nye and Frazier to Cast Ballots
Against Measure-Couzens Also
Reported Against It.

Win the hoover IorceS surviving 10
win the balance in the closely divided
Senate on the administration farm bill
vote today. Senator johnson, Repub-
lican, California, opened a bitter de-
nunciation of the measure and loosed
an attack against the crack of the
party lash" The vote comes at pm.
The President had conferred with
some of the doubtful Republicans at
the White House early today and as the
debate got under way, Senator Johnson
began from the Senate floor an attack
on what he called the ruthless power
to drive" members of the Senate.
I'D rather be frog living on dungeon
mould shouted the Californian. I'D
rather be dog baying at the moon
than bending to the lash. I'll stand By
the President when believe him to bt
right but I will not stand by him wher
I believe him to be wrong, realizing full
well what the consequences may be-"
Dakotans Against Report.
Senators Nye and Frazier of North
Dakota announced after visit to Mr..
Hoover that they would vote against
the conference report on the farm bill,
because it fails to include the export
debenture plan. The President is OPP
posed to the plan. Senator CouZens OF
Michigan, breakfast guest at the
White House, announced he was stu
ION the fence" and wanted to hear the
final debate.
Prediction was made by one OF the
administration leaders that the vote on
the conference report would be a tie.
In that event Vice President Curtis
would be called upon to cast the de-
Gliding vote in favor of the conference
report.
Senator Couzens, it was reported later,
would vote against the conference re-
S.;crt because he objected to the atti-
tude of the House, which SO far h
refused direct vote on the debentI :
clause. II Senator Couzens vcl>s
egainst the conference report. it means
the loss of vote to the administration
forces.
Senator johnson was the second Re-
publican in as many days to aSsail the
administration farm measure.
Johnson Attacks Bill.
He declared the pending measure
was the "Jardine bill Of two years
aga bill repudiated by the farm
ing sections and by Congress; a bill
that made the former Secretary of
Agriculture so unpopular that he was
unable ito continue as Secretary Of
Agriculture although he was one of
the original men supporting the candi-
dacy Of Herbert Hoover"
That is the bill," he declared, (which
a united servile and hypocritical press
demands that we pass at all hazards
and without opinions of our own"
Asserting that the debsnture clause
was merely on optional provision of the
bill, johnson asked, will the President
veto bill that contains only an OPP
tional provision which might help ag-
riculture?"
Il remember last Fall, when the cleo
ton hung in the balance, that two men
from this body were called into battle
In the Middle West-Senators Borab
and Brookhart-and these two mer
spoke to millions over the radio or
farm relief" he said. To-day these
two men say they are constrained te
vote for the debsnture to meet the
pledges which they made to the voters
These two men are standing TODAY
where they stood and where the Re-
publican party stood year ago before
the American people. Somebody elst
has shifted ground. Not those two mer
and not have shifted"
Chairman McNary of the agricultura
committee interposed to Skate that "n
influence was brought on the commit!
tee"
Senator Norbeck, Republican, South
Dakota, said he always understood tha
Senator McNary mad taken the positiorI
that he was for the debsnture unlessi
the President opposed it. l
McNary replied that he had reservedl
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