Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
|BROOKHART SEES
'STANDPAT' PARTY
Reactionaries Form 1t, He
Says; Hits Foes of
Debenture.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator Brookhart Of Iowa yesterday
fred parting shot at the President
and other opponents Of the debenture
plan of aiding the farmers before leav-
ing Washington to go to Texas to hold
hearings on Federal patronage. The
stormy petrol of Iowa politics, who was
credited recently with declaring his In
tention Of establishing third political
party, a Progressive party, denied any
such intention. He charged, however,
that third party, the ''reactionary''
party, had already been formed by the
conservatives of both the Republican
and Democratic parties, as evidenced by
their votes IN the Senate on the Borall
resolution to limit tariff revision to the
farm and related schedules.
There is an acute political situation
at the present moment" Senator Brook
hart asserted. "a third party has al
ready been organized, not Of progress
sives. but Of standpatters. The votes
on the Borah resolution have fully un-
covered this fact. When stated O few
davs ago that the progressives should
have candidates for Congress in both
parties, the reactionary press at once
took up this fact and quoted it as q
suggestion for third party, although
I had made no mention whatever Of q
third party. now see their purpose
was to cover up the fact that they had
already organized q third party of re-
action. In the Senate, on the tariff
bill, the standpatters Of both parties
have joined together. However, think
the vote on the Borah resolution, to-
gether with the public announcements
made by Senators, shows them to be
clearly in the minority.
Il believe the progressives have the
votes and that they should insist upon
Senator Norris amendment for de-
benture to the farmers, but with the
prov1so that the debenture should be
paid to the Farm Board and not the
exporters. OF course, the original de-
benture proposition would have issued
many Of them to the sterilization COZ
porationS, but through the Farm Board
they should all 60 to these corpora
tioAs and perform all the functions of
the equalization fee, the purpose OF
which was to get the farmers their cost
Va pAOOuCbiOu QiuS u LedSOI6Ole QTO1I.
In this form the debenture proposition
should not be offensive to the House,
and believe 1t can command q good
majority Of support.
Sentiment TO Crystalline.
During the next two months, while
the Senate Is in recess and the finance
committee Is wrestling with the tariff
bill, sentiment throughout the country
is likely to crystalline on the subject Of
tariff revision. In that time, too, the
new farm relief bill is to be put to the
test though it may take much longer to
develop its real merit or dement's. Sem
ator Brookhart Is one of those who
takes the position that the farmer, in
stead of being aided by the tariff revi-
sion in the House bill, in the end viii be
the loser
This is much the same position taken
by Chester Gray, representative of the
American Farm Bureau Federation, who
appeared yesterday before the finance
subcommittee considering the agricul-
tural schedule Of the tariff bill Mr..
Gray insisted that tire House bill left q
Wider discrimination against the farmer
and In favor Of the industrialist than
now exists under the Fordney -McC Cum
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