The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-06-21
By PENMAN SLAVE
washington Correspondent for The
Producers News

final passage of the adiilliiis C Gu S
Farm Relief Bill the Senate corner t
ence Committee by vote Oh three I
out of five and with two members re. {
fusing to sion the report has brought :
in its recommendation to accept the /
Hoover plan to aid agriculture: by {
the time these lines are IN prlnt the
Senate will probably have voteu 70
adopt the report carrying as It's HAN
feature the elimination Oh the oe1el.
ture plan. In that event FresIuen'
Hoover is expected to sign the Dill DE-
fore the end of the week.
Thus will be passed measure
almost verbatim on the mooel SUP
mitted by the Minneapolis elevator IN,
terests and acclaimed by the wall
Street stock exchange, with the oe-
benture plan deleted and WIN tne
further certainty that the Presldent
will appoint some of Wall Streets
own to administer the Bill. Thus too
will end eight years of farm Juror and
futility, climaxed by what is prooaoly
the worst betrayal of the farmers IN
terests in the history of the country
The agricultural situation in the
south and the west is SO crltlcal chdC
Senators representing these sections
may be expected to indulge IN some
additional fireworks; there will be-
some further effort to force House
vote on the debenture plan; it is ev-
on possible, notwithstanding the ar
rogant confidence of administration
leaders. that the new alignment of
progressive Republicans and Demo
Gratis may yet cause the admnlstra-
4 tion some further embarrassment
But none of these developments Of
fers any permanent hope for the far
mers. Their cause is lost-for the
time being.
By the usual vote of three to two
the Senate Conference Committee dis
regarded the instructions of the Sen
ate to insist on the debenture plan,
Senators McNary, Capper and Rams
dell signing the report and Senators
Norris and Smith refusing to sign it
On Saturday the conference report
was submitted to the Senate where
upon bitter and pointed attack was
opened upon the Senate Conferees
who had receded from the position
which they had been instructed tt
= maintain. The Senate, it will be re
- called, voted for the debenture plal
AT to IA. Its Conferee were instruct
ed to insist on the plan in conference
with the House Committee but afte
a great show of battle, the Senat
members feceded from their position
,o and, as was charged on the floor o
the Sr...& rrtnIeIed. ThrCT"hcu
: the VIZ. TIE " eks of cC.i1'l' e
III discussion the debenture plan wa
not even considered on its merits. Th
e. e House members fatty refused, as
the procedure invariably under s'm
- lar conditions, to take up the pcln.
- question. Even before the confe4' 10
~ committee met it was generally We
NC known here that the Senate Commit
:. tee would make a show of resistant
10 for tine but would later give
reluctantly. 1t is also known thu
such an agreement was entered I'M
between McNary, Capper and Ransde
81 with four of the five House conferee
References to this agreement wer
of course, met with denial by Chat
e man McNary, but the facts speak Fl
~ themselves.
Not the least of the significant a
roc compartments of this act was Il
precedent set up that a small grOl
,re in the House assisted by another su,
group in the Senate can virtually s
bic aside the customary forms of parli
mentary procedure. In attacking t
,ro action of the House, Senator Norl
of Nebraska pointed out that in t
future legislative forms would be
the mercy of the man in the Viii
House. "Let US be honest and abo
board" he said, "and establish a MI
solini at the head of the goyernmel
is If the differences which arise in t
,di- course Of legislating by two branch
Of government are not to be iron
els, out in the customary manner, If tn
the well known influence of the z
ke- ministration, the representatives
ms one legislative body are to refuse
good faith even to consider amer
an ments passed by the other body, if G
"a branch of government is to be ref
ed an opportunity of voting on
C.. particular changes not pleasing to
~ small group of leaders, then repres'
tative government is at an end"
vat said.
The final vote will probably sh
ack, that Senator Fletcher and Tramr
Id. of Florida who originally voted
Hill, the debenture plan have been inf
enced to change their position.
30, that event the administration may Y
out by one vote. The present aim
her, the progressive Republicans and
mocrats who are behind the deb
lby, ture plan, is to force the House
IL, take vote on it. The aim of
!, B, administration is to shield its flock
me- the House against the storm which
sure to break against those repres
hur tatives of farm sections who wo
refuse to support the plan. If
rold administration can prevent a vote
members of the House can then
ven turn for the elections next year v
ia. an easy mind. To those who ia
81, the plan they can say they wo
have voted for it only no oppertur
len was given them to do so. In ot
300, places they can say they were OPT
ed to the plan. The Democratic T
zler ty, for its part, Is counting on a g
political issue next year and Is sc
ing to create the illusion that
stands for real farm relief by
Championship Of the debenture p
Needless to say, If that party wer
ON power, controlled as it now is by
same Wall Street forces which b
4 e.