Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Senate Group Will Hold First
Meeting on Agricultural
Problem March rs.
PRESIDENTS OPINION
WILL BE SOLICITED
Executives Message to Congress on
April Is Is Expected to
Outline His Views.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The task of whipping farm bill into
shape for introduction soon after the
special session of Congress opens will
be begun soon by the Senate and House
committees on agriculture
The Senate committee. meeting on
call of Senator McNary of Oregon. its
chairman, will hold it's first hearing
March 25. Among the first witnesses
to be heard will be representatives of
the Department of Agriculture, the
American Farm Bureau Federation the
National Grange and the Farmers
Union.
While it is not expected that Presi-
dent Hoover and his new Secretary of
Agriculture, Mr.. Hyde, will undertake
to draft farm aid bill and send it to
Congress. it is expected that the farm
bill will be drafted along lines accept
able to the President, and that the Sem
ate and House committees will be in
formed as to what those lines are, both
through conference with the President
and through the appearance of repre-
sentatives of the Department of Agri-
culture before the committees.
Presidents Views Awaited.
The President in his message to Con-
gress at its opening April IS will deal
with the farm problem and outline his
ideas of the program to be developed
in the interest of the farmer. The de-
tails OF the legislation. 1t is expected
will be worked out by the congressional
committees and by the House and Sem
ate themselves.
The Senate committee will have be-
fore it drafts of several proposed farm
aid bills when it gets together next
week. Chairman McNary introduced
revised farm aid bill in the last session
OF Congress, omitting the equaliza ton
fee OF the old McNary- -Hsugen farm
bill, which had the Endorsement of the
Coolidge administration. It was said
at the time that the bill followed In
general way also the ideas of President
Hoover. although he never gave it his
Endorsement, refraining from making
any statements with regard to legisla-
ton pending before Congress prior TO
his Inauguration as President
Senator Brookhart of Iowa has a
farm bill which he intended to offer as
a substitute for the McNary bill, had
that measure been taken UP for con-
sideration at the last session of Con-
greSs. With some few amendments,
Senator Brookhart will offer this bill
to the committee for its consideration.
1t would set up farmers national
export cooperative" with a capital
stock of $780, 900, to deal with the
exportable surplus crops produced IL
this country.
$1,sO0, ,O00, 900 Fund Held Necessary.
The United States Government is to
subscribe the entire sum for the capi-
tai stock. As the Iowa Senator does
not believe that this will be sufficient
to deaf with the total exportable
surplus of the farmers crops. he would
authorize also additional contributions
for this purpose, running the total UP
to 81 ,500000000, through the issue of
bonds
Under the Brookhart bill board of
directors to manage the Farmers Ma
tional Export Corporation. consisting of
three members. would be set up. Mem
bers would be appointed by the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, one on the nomi-
nation of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. another on the nomination
of the Farmers Union, and third on
the nomination of the National Grange.
The Department Of Agriculture is di-
rected under the terms of the bill to
determine the average cost of produc-
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