Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-29
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
FOR FARM MEASURE
Maneuvers to Break Dead
lock Between ConfereeS
Bearing Fruit.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Maneuvers to break the deadlock be-
tween the Senate and House conferees
over the farm relief bill and so pre-
vent that measure from being killed
appeared today to be bearing fruit.
The prospect now is that the con-
ferees will be called into session Friday
or Saturday, or certainly by the first
of the week, and a course of action
mapped out, including writing up the
bill in conference for the purpose of
making a report to the House and then
to the Senate. When the House con-
ferees walked out of the conference
meeting last week it was after they had
definitely declined to go ahead with the
other amendments to the bill made by
the Senate until the Senate conferees
had first receded on the debentllre
clause, which has been at the bottom
of the deadlock.
Consider Amendments.
The prospect now is for consideration
of all the Senate amendments placed in
the bill when the conferees get to-
in conference. 1t is likely that the
Senate conferees in the end will agree
to recede from their defense of the
debenture clause which is strongly OPP
posed by the House and by President
Hoover, and that conference report
will be submitted to the House with the
bill containing some OF the other
Senate amendments, perhaps in
modified form if not agreed to
as written by the Senate. If the
House adopts the conference report,
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atorS will have to determine whether
they wish to accept it-without the de-
benture plan-or reject it and send the
bill back to conference with the chance
that such action might result in kill
ing the bill entirely.
Already there are signs of disappro-
baton out in the country over the
deadlock on the farm bill. 1t is gen.
orally understood that the President
would veto the bill, if it carried the
debenture clause when it came to him,
and that 1t could not be passed over his
veto. The farmers have been promised
farm bill, with the establishment of
a Federal farm board to aid them with
their problems and 00,000000 re-
volving fund to help in the more orderly
marketing Of their products. And some
of the farmers are demanding that
such measure be put through without
further delay.
Debenturites Unmoved.
How the Senate would receive a re-
port from the conference committee
| which killed the debenture clause is
still matter of conjecture. The de-
benturites insist there has been no
break in their lines; that the II Re-
publican Senators who favored that
clause when the bill was before the
Senate will continue to support it, and
that the Democrats are standing fast
for it. If completed bill, however, is
before the Senate and it is clear that it
is the kind of bill which alone can
become law at this time, the Senate
might be put in the position of denying
to the farmers any measure OF farm
legislation if they rejected 1t.
There is no sign that the Hoover ad-
ministration Is weakening in any way
in its stand against the debenture
clause. Indeed, there are reasons to be-
lieve that the administration is
strengthening its position against de-
benture and that if necessary the Presi-
| dent will carry the issue to the country
itself. In some quarters the address
delivered by Charles Francis Adams,
Secretary of the Navy, in Boston Mon
day night, in which Mr.. Adams de-
nounced the insurgent Republicans OF
| the Senate who made possible the
adoption of the debenture plan, is re-
garded as a possible opening of such a
campaign. Whether Mr.. Adams was
wise in the course he adopted remains
to be seen. But at all events, it is quite
clear that he expressed the views of
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