Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
FARM BILL PASSING
TUESDAY FORESEEN
Senate Agrees Unanimously
to Limit Speeches to
Ten Minutes.

| Passage of the farm bill by the
| Senate on Monday or Tuesday was
predicted today following a unanimous
consent agreement to limit debates be-
ginning at pm. Monday to 10-min-
ute speeches.
On the House side the Republican
| leaders were still considering two courses
| of procedure One was to decline to
receive the bill from the Senate on the
| ground that the Senate had exceeded
| its authority in placing the debenture
clause in the bill. The other was to
receive the bill and send it to confer
ence after first adopting a resolution
declaring that the Senate had gone
beyond its authority and that the pres
ent action Of the House in receiving the
bill was not to be considered a prece-
dent for the future.
Bitterness of feeling between Repub-
lican members of the Senate because OF
the vote on the debenture clause ap-
peared today to be on the increase.
Furthermore, the likelihood of a bitter
contest between the Senate and the
House was growing stronger. House
members are watching the debate in the
Senate and were inclined today to re-
sent the statement made in that body
yesterday by the Democratic leader,
Senator Robinson.
Interminable Debate Feared.
Senate Republican leaders have urged
the Republican leaders of the House to
receive the farm bill with the debenture
clause, arguing that If the House sends
the bill back to the Senate charging
that the Senate had gone beyond its
jurisdiction would lead to interminable
debate of constitutional question in
the Senate.
There was no disposition to hurry the
farm bill to a vote in the Senate today.
Some of the Republican leaders are
counting on a backflre from the coun-
try because of the refusal Of majority
of the Senate to support President
Hoover on the farm -relief question
Also there was a disposition to give the
House leaders additional time in which
to determine how they shall meet the
debenture issue.
G. o. p. Row Aired.
The animosity existing among Re-
publican Senators as a result of the
debenture fight was brought out into
the open yesterday afternoon by a
letter written by Senator FesS Of Ohio,
the assistant Republican whip, to Mar
shall Sheppy of Toledo. assailing
pseudo Republicans" for the break"
in the party's ranks over the deben-
ture issue, and naming Senators Borah
of Idaho. Nye of North Dakota and
complaint. Sharp retors were i'm
mediately made by all three of the
Senators, who supported the Chief
Executive during the presidential cam
paign, but voted against his announced
position in giving their support to the
6ebenture proposal.
Senator Borah, the one person re-
sponsible for the special session." Tess
wrote after mentioning that he had
fused to go along with the President
and supported the debenture, against
which the President had written n
letter to the chairman of the COM
mittee. Senator Nye, another who had
sought the Presidents promise for a
special session, went against the PreSi-
dent. Senator Brookhart, who had
done such valiant service for the Presi-
dent In the campaign, early broke away
most bitter critic on the floor Of the
Senate"
BOrah Makes Reply.
Senator Borah, in statement on the
Fess letter, said he had "for three years
been an advocate of debenture as the
most immediate and certain method of
relieving the farmer engaged in pro-
ducing commodities of which we have
a surplus from his present distress"
had voted Wednesday according to nv
long-settled convictions" and would
not know how to vote otherwise"
In the support which I sincerely
gave Mr.. Hoover I did not get the idea
that I was to be deprived ever after
ward OF voting upon public measures In
accordance with my own views" he
said. II am sure that Mr.. Hoover did
not assume for a moment that by my
public questions or surrendering the
right to form them. Only a base class
OF intellectual slaves would entertain
or promulgate such an idea
Senator Nye said that those who
freely resort to the term pseudo Repub-
licRn' would do we'll to compare their
own Republicanism with that which
gave birth. vitality and life to the
party" and predicted: Some day Ohio
Republicans will learn that North d.
kota Republicans are striving to heH a
little closer to the line laid down by
Lincoln than is the case in Ohio. and
with that realization will come rev life
for a party that has been growing 50
stale that it forgets that people can
make and break parties"
BrOokhart Is Defiant.
Senator Brookhart declared mo
standpat like Senator Fess can be my
example of 'Republicanism and, as
serting that he was 1.-THE first to ask
the President to call the special ses-
sion. went on:
But the farm bill I had in mind
when 1 talked with Mr.. Hoover last
Summer and again when I campaigned
for him was different from the one we
are called upon here to pass
Senator Tess predicted that the di- |
vision over the debenture means ulti- |
mately a complete coalition between |
the Democrats and insurgents, and con-
sequent arresting of the administra- |
tons policies" Referring to the pro- |
tective tariff as a benefit to manufac- |
turing interests and contending that J
debentures were no closer to the bounty /
idea, Senator Borah observed:
Mr.. FesS hastens with impatient |
pride to devote all kinds of bounty to |
interests, but recoils |
with pseudo-pride from extending the |
same principle exactly to the producers. |
If the economic schism thus indicated |
must come which will break across par
ty lines, it will be because those who |
have been recipients of the favor of
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