The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-06-06
SENATE AND HOUSE
AGREE ON BILL
Bonus Debenture Plan OPP
posed by President Hoover
Has Been Eliminated
QUICK ACTION LIKELY
Finished Agricultural Relief
Bill Will Be Law Within
One Week, Leaders Say

Washington, June 5.-The de-
benture plan so strongly opposed by
President Hoover and administra-
ton leaders in the house was
stricken from the farm relief bill
today by the house and senate con-
ferees who reached a final agree
ment on the measure.
Finding the house adamant to
the tariff bounty plan the senate,
conferees surrendered as had been
expected. When vote was taken
the senate conferees were 8 to 2 in
favor of abandoning the plan which
the senate had tackled on the bill
by AZ to A vote three weeks ago.
Chairman Charles L. McNary
(rep. Oregon), Arthur Capper (rep.
kansa9 and Joseph E. Ransdell
(dem. Louisiana) voted against the
debenture while George w. Norris
(rep. Nebraska) and Ellison D.
Smith (dem. South Carolina) voted
to retain it despite the pressure
from the house. The senators had
votetd exactly the same way when
the debenture plan was adopted in
the senate.
Few other changes were made in
the bill. Its title was revised to be
"the agricultural marketing act"
The senate provision was adopted
giving sterilization corporations
the right to serve cooperative or
CARNATIONS not only as buying
but as a merchandising agency.
Expenses of the proposed federal
farm board were raised to $780,
900 as the senate had provided.
The theory of the administration
measure was preserved. The board
is to be composed of nine members
to be selected by the president and
confirmed by the senate. Members
are to receive $4,000 a year salary
and in selecting them the presi-
dent is cautioned to keep in mind
the advisability of giving each sec
ton of the country representation,
that is one member for the wheat
belt, one for the corn belt, and so
on.
The agreement will be submitted
to the house first. But it cannot
be made ready until Friday. The
conferees are to meet again tomor-
row to read over the bill for errors.
already have been
made to rush the agreement
through the house, perhaps with
out even record vote. The house
heard the agreement was near and
od
after it met.
McNary who is fostering the leg
islation in the senate announced he
expected the agreement to be sent
over to the senate by the house late
Friday afternoon. He will force
its immediate consideration he said,
but he is doubtful whether final
vote can be taken before the mid
die of next week.
Norris already has served notice
he intends to fight the action of the
conferees from the senate floor.
He is aroused because the house
conferees stood unanimously
against taking the debenture plan
to the house for vote.
AFTER the senate passed the bill,
the house took the position that the
senate's endorsement of the .deben-
ture plan was unconstitutional be-
cause the constitution provides rev.
enue raising measures should orig
mate in the house. sl
Norris considers it unprecedented
for senate conferees to abandon
their position without seekingsS to (
force a vote in the house. McNafy's
position is that the senate confer
ees did all they could.
They just put it up to as cold
that we would have to take this
and get a bill signed by the presi-
dent, or get nothing" McNary said.
1--WE took what we could get.
think it is avery good billsas it
stands" ~