Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-07
HOUSE APPROVES
FARM BILL REPORT
KILLING DEBENTURE
Move Is Adopted Without
Record Vote After Hour
of Debate.
SENATE CONSIDERATION
PROMISES WARM FIGHT
Final Victory for Measure, Minus
Clause Opposed by Hoover,
Is Believed Certain.

The conference report on the farm
relief bill was adopted by the House to-
day without the formality of a record
vote. 1t was realized that the House
was overwhelmingly in favor OF the
conference report, which eliminated
from the bill the debenture plan op-
posed by President Hoover and by the
House.
The, vote was taken following an
hours debate. In which the work OF the
House conferees on the farm bill was
praised by Majority Leader Tilson and
by other members of the House.
The report was taken up in the
House Immediately after that body as
sembled. The conference report now
goes to the Senate, where sharp fight
is promised over elimination of the
debenture clause. In the end. however,
it is believed the Senate will agree
to the report and the bill will be sent
60 the President for his approval.
The debenture clause, which has been
opposed by the President and by the
House, was inserted in the bill by the
Senate by margin of only three votes.
A change of two votes, therefore, could
bring about concurrence in the con-
ference report as submitted. Already
a number of Senators who voted for
debenture have indicated privately that
they did not intend to stick out for that
clause longer and thereby prevent any
farm relief legislation at this time.
Prolonged Debate Possible.
The debate in the Senate, however,
is likely to run for two days or more,
with the supporters of debenture at
tacking the conferees Of the Senate be-
cause they had yielded in this matter
Chairman McNary of the committee
on agriculture and in charge of the
bill, today was urged by Senators in
terested in the suspension of the ma
tional origins clause of the immigra-
ton act and In the final passage of the
reapportionment bill not to call up the
conference report on the farm bill until
next week
The fear was expressed that if the
conference report on the farm bill were
adopted before vote was taken on
these measures the demand for a recess
might become so strong that the ma
tional origins and reapportionment
measures would be left in the lurch.
Appropriation Is Necessary.
Following final enactment of the farm
bill an appropriation must be made to
the bill for the more orderly marketing
of crops. The blu authorizes fund OF
S500,0O0,0 900.
If Senator McNary has his way the
appropriation will provide the entire
amount. He believes the farmers
should be made to understand promptly
that the Government is going through
with its promises to aid them. Ap-
preparation of less amount might be
taken as an indication chat such was
not the case. An estimate will have
to be made by the Budget Bureau
and sent to Congress by the President
The appropriation will be carried in
a deficiency bill. In some quarters it
has been argued that an appropriation
of S200,000,000 would be enough; that
it would not be possible to extend more
than that sum before Congress returned
during the Fall. The psychological ef-
feet, however, of making available the
entire sum would be valuable, it is be-
lieved.
Debate Is Limited.
When the conference report was
taken up in the House the statement on
the part of the House conferees was
read. An agreement was entered into
limiting debate on the report to one
hour to be evenly divided between the
two sides. Chairman Haugen, of the
House committee on agriculture, began
the debate with an explanation Of the
measure as agreed to in conference. He
was followed by Representative Kinche-
loe of Kentucky. Democratic member
of the conference committee, who went
into detail regarding the bill as framed
in conference.