The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-28
FARM LEGISLATION
IS MAKING TROUBLE
House and Senate Leaders
Cannot Agree on the Pro-
gram for Special Session
MAJORITY FOR DEAL
Representatives of CO-Opera-
tives May Be Requested to
Keep Draft Measure

Washington, Feb. 25-Sharp
disagreement between the House
and Senate Agriculture committees
over the details of farm relief leg
islation were indicated today on
Capitol hill. Each is anxious to
get action on its bill first.
The House committee will meet
Friday to outline its program for
the coming special session of the
new Congress. Sentiment among
Republican members is said to ia
vor writing an entirely new bill af-
ter brief hearings, the measure to
be presented to the House as a
committee proposal.
Senator Charles l.. McNary of
Oregon, chairman, announced that
the Senate committee probably will
begin hearings March 20 and that
the revised McNary bill will be
used as the basis of farm relief leg
islation. He intends to reintro-
duce his bill the first day of the
session and hopes to get it acted
on quickly by the Senate.
Senator Arthur Capper of Kan
sas, chairman of the Senate farm
bloc, expressed the opinion that the
McNary bill, with some amend
ments, would receive approved of
Senate committee. He agrees with
Senator McNary that the McNary
bill is in harmony with the views Of
President-elect Hoover and Secre-
tary of Agriculture Jardine.
Congressman Gilbert N. Haugen,
of Iowa, chairman of the House
committee, thinks the committee
should work out the best bill it can
to meet the views of Mr.. Hoover
and at the same time make good
campaign promises to agriculture.
He is ready to sponsor whatever
bill the committee writes. He ex-
poets the measure to be passed by
the House before the tariff bill is
taken up.
Congressman Franklin w. Fort,
of New Jersey, who is expected to
be Mr.. Hoover's House spokesman
on farm legislation, strongly fav-
ors discarding all previous farm
bills and starting with a complete
ly new one. In his opinion the
McNary bill is only denatured
McNary-Haugen bill and does not
meet the situation.
; Mr.. Fort doubts that Mr.. Hoov-
err will send an administration
farm bill to Congress. He thinks
the new President will tell Con-
gress what it is sought to accom-
plish and leave the task of drafting
the legislation to the legislative
branch of Government. AS yet
the New Jersey Congressman is
not prepared to say Just what form
the legislation should take.
The job of the Agriculture COM
mittee, as Mr.. Fort sees it, is to
write bill that carries out the
pledges of the Republican platform
and the interpretations given those
pledges by Mr.. Hoover in his &C
ceptance and st. Louis speeches.
He dose not believe the job will be
a difficult one. He thinks repre-
sentatives of successful co-opera-
tives should be called in by the
committee to tell what legislation
is needed to assist co-operatives.
An effective sterilization corpora
ton must be provided for but in a
way that will avoid putting the
Government into business or Civ
ing Federal subsidy.
"Pledges made by the Republi-
can party in the Presidential cam
paign must be carried out" Mr..
Fort Said