Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-06-15
FARM RELIEF
BILL PASSED
BY SENATE
President Hoover Carries
Bill to Victory After Bit
ter and Prolonged Fight in
Senate.
House Cheers Passage
Signature of President to be
Affixed to Bill on Monday
Announcement Of Board
Members Expected Soon.

WASHINGTON, June IL,
WP)-The senate ratified the
farm relief agreement today
and the bill was ordered en-
rolled Immediately to permit
its being sent to the White
House before President Hoover
leaves the executive offices for
the day. The vote was 73 to 8.
The senate held up the meas
ure for debate during most of
the afternoon while Democrats
and independents protested it ,
would not accomplished the de-
sired results. Most of them,
however, said they would vote
fer it.
The house was kept in ses-
sion while the senate debate
continued. Speaker LongwOrth
desired to wait until the SEN
ate passed the bill so he could
sign it in the presence Of the
house and eXDedite its dis
patch to the White House.
The house today agreed to the
conference report on the admin
istration's $5OO.O00OOO farm relief
bill. Less than two minutes was
used to push the measure through.
Chairman Haughen of the agricul-
tural committee moved to take
House Bill No. 1 from the speak
er's table and agree to the confer
ence report which eliminated the
debenture plan which the senate
had been insisting upon.
Majority Leader TilSon explained
it was unnecessary to read the re-
pert of the house as it had been
reported before, SO this formality
was dispensed with.
Speaker Longworth then announc-
ed the conference report had been
considered as read the third time
agreed to and passed. Not single
voice was raised either for OF
against 1t.
The bill was sent Immediately to
the senate for its consideration. 1t
waited there but 10 minutes and
then was taken up by the senate
upon motion of Chairman McNary
with prospects that debate would be
shortened so it could be sent to the
White House before President
Hoover leaves his office for the day.
He is expected to sign it immediate
ly and there is chance he may an
nounce tomorrow the personnel of
the eight members of the federal
farm board which is to take over
agricultural supervision and admin
lister $500,000,000 federal revolving
fund under provisions of the bill.
All known speed limits for legiS-
lation were smashed by the action
of congress. In all the history
known to the oldest congressional
employee, no major item of legis-
lation has received such swift con-
Sideration.
Just before the bill was taken up
in the senate, Senator Steck. demo-
crat of Iowa, read into the record a
protest from the corn belt commit
tee purporting to represent 1,000,-
900 farmers, and stating the bill in
it's final form docs not manifest
the slightest effort to handle the all
important surplus question, which is
the root of the farmers ills"
The farm bill delayed action tenn
porarily on the pending senate
amendment to abolish secret ses-
sions, and the Borah resolution
seeking to instruct the senate fl
nance committee to confine tariff
revision to rates on farm products
alone.
Applause greeted Speaker Long
worth's announcement to the house
that the senate had passed the bill.
Longworth signed it at 1855 p. m.
and returned it to the senate for
Vice President Curtis signature.
The bill will not, however, go to
the White House until Monday be-
cause the senate recessed over the
weekend. The bill must be
signed by Vice President Curtis in
open session after it is engroSsed
on sheepskin and this cannot be
done until Monday.