Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
CAPPER CONDEMNS
DEBENTURE ON EVE
OF SENATE BALLOT
Lines Seem to BE Holding
Firm, Although Shifts
Are Rumored.
TARIFF BILL MAY GO
TO HOUSE TOMORROW
General Debate Expected Few Days
Later-Psssage Without Diff
fculty Held Likely.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN

On the eve Of a vote on the debenture
plan in the farm bill Senator Arthur
Capper of Kansas. who headed the farm
bloc for several wears attacked the de-
benture proposal yesterday. and said it
should not be included in the bill.
With the vote in the Senate over the
denbenture. which is opposed strongly
by President Hoover. so close that both
sides claim victory, the address of the
Kansas Senator came at an opportune
time for the adninistra ton. The lead
ers were still anxiously counting noses
when the Senate recessed last night
until tomorrow. There we're rumors Of
shift there. but the lines seemed to be
holding firm.
The oath of office was administered to
Senator Shipstead. i'll in Baltimore
hospital, in the hope that it would be
possible to obtain a pair" for him so
that his absence from the Senate would
not initiate against the supporters of
the debenture plan. He is for 1t. OBJ
tanning pair for the Minnesota Sena-
tor. however, may not be easy Of accom-
plishment.
.e. House Awaits Tariff Bill.
While the Senate was preparing to
go to the mat over the debenture plan
early this week possibly tomorrow. the
House was in recess, waiting for the
tariff bill. This measure has been COM
pleted by the Republican members of
the ways and means committee and
sent to the printer. If it is printed in
time, it probably will be introduced in
the House tomorrow. If not, it will wait
until Tuesday, It is a huge bill, esti-
mated at some $4,000 words, and with
the changes from the present law indi-
Gated, has proved big job to print.
Majority Leader Tilson said last night
that the House members may be given
two or three days to digest the bill and
the report on it, before general debate
is begun. It is expected to limit the
general debate to a week and that it
will be possible to put the bill through
the House with another week of debate
under the FIVE minute rule The House
is overwhelmingly Republican and the
leaders believe they can pass the bill
without much diffcElty.
The House committee is about two
weeks late in completing the bill. 1t
is generally understood that the battle
ONCA AdtCS ~ UC AIACL lAA bIkC U1l1 Ild0
been brisk, with a huge number of de-
mandS for substantial increases. The
desire of the President has been to
limit the tariff revision so that it will
merely supplement the present law.
While the details of the bill now drafted
have been iealously guarded, 1t Is un-
derstood that many changes In the
existing law have been made. An effort
'Fhas been made, generally speaking, to
give the farmers all they want in the
matter of tariff revision in the aaricul-
tursl schedule. although in some quar-
ters there are complaints that the
farmers have been sighted.
Debenture Inclusion Talked.
There is talk about seeking to place
the debenture plan for farm relief in
the tariff bill. Indeed, the Democrats
hold that practically every member of
their party in the House would support
such a proposal, on the theory that if
the protective tariff theory is to be
maintained, the debenture plan designed
tc give the farmers the benefits of the
tariff should be carried out. However,
the Republicans have a lead of ap-
proXimately 100 votes in the House over
the opposition, and there is practically
no chance that the debenture plan can
be incorporated in the tariff bill there.
II the debenture is offered as an amend
ment to the tariff bill in the Senate,
the vote will be close. One Republican
Senator, who Is TO vote against includ-
ing the debenture in the farm bill, is
saying privately that If it is offered
when the tariff bill comes up. he will
vote for it. However, if the debenture
loses definitely in the present effort to
incorporate it in the farm bill, it. is
likely to fail also to be included in the
tariff bill.
Even should the Senate by narrow
vote. keep the debenture plan in the
farm bill. the House will not agree to it
and the clause will have to go out OF
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