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Also Favored
in Tariff.
ORIGINS CLAUSE
REPEAL URGED
Census and House
Reapportionment
Requested.
Ry g. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Hoover laid his legis-
lative program before Congress
today in a message which was
both terse and brief. He recon-
mended:
Establishment of a Federal farm
board with wide powers, to help
the American farmer solve his
many problems.
Revision of the tariff, sgricul-
tural schedules to give the farmer
better protection in the domestic
market and to stimulate him to
diversity his crops.
Further development of inland water
ways to help the farmer meet the hlgn
costs of transportation. -
Limited revision of the entire tarift
law, with due regard to the needs OF
American producers and strengtnen-
ing of the United States Tariff Com
mission.
Other Measures Favored.
The President recommended. too. the
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for taking the decennial census, for the
reapportionment of the House OF Rep
resentatiyes and a bill to suspend the
operation of the national origins clause
of the immigration act. He suggested,
too, some minor administrative author
izations," without specifying them.
At the outset of his message. which
was read to the Senate and House, the
President said he had called this spe-
cial session of Congress to redeem two
pledges given in the last election
farm relief and limited changes in the
tariff" It was about these two subjects
that the entire message was written,
except for a brief paragraph at the con-
clusion suggesting the passage OF the
census bill Teapportionment and sus-
pension of the national origins clause.
The President made no attempt to
write into his message the details OF
a bill either for farm relief or for tarih
revision. He did, however, leave no
doubt in the minds of any one that
he believed there should be no delay in
establishing 4 Federal farm board,
capable of aiding the farmer with in
formation. advice and funds, to be used
by the farmers themselves for the more
orderly marketing Of their crops and to
meet surplus crisis. He did not indicate
set up by the Government for farm
aid.
Various Causes Cited.
The farmers problems, the President
declared, arise from a multitude OF
causes, including the postwar deflation,
wasteful methods of marketing, climatic
surpluses, increased railway rates, COM
petition from foreign countries where
labor is cheaper, overproduction, local
taxes and the substitution of machinery
for work animals thereby decreasing
the consumption of farm products.
There is no difference of opinion. the
President said. over the fact that there
is need for farm relief. The question
is one of method. He declared himself
fatty against the imposition Of any
"fee or tax upon the farmer, thereby
ranging himself squarely once more in
opposition to the old equalization fee
plan of the McNary -Haugen bill of
the last and preceding Congresses.
The President appeared to be i'm
pressed with the need of protecting the
American farmer in the domestic mar
ket and for that reason desired an in
crease in tariff duties on farm products
from other countries. In this connec-
ton, he said;
Takes Costs Into Account.
The great expansion of production
abroad under the conditions have
mentioned renders foreign competition
in our export markets increasingly seri-
Gus. It seems but natural, therefore,
that the American farmer, having been
greatly handicapped in his foreign mar
ket by such competition from the
younger expanding countries, should ask
that foreign access to our domestic
market should be regulated by taking
into account the differences in our costs
of production"
The Presidents faith in the plan for
the establishment of Federal farm
board is strong, he indicated in his
message. In that connection he said:
II have long held that the multiplicity
of causes of agricultural depression
could only be met by the creation Of a
great instrumentality clothed with suf-
ficient authority and resources to assist
our farmers to meet these problems,
each upon its own merits. The creation
of such an agency would at once trans
fer the agricultural question from the
field of politics into the realm OF eco
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