Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-13
"Pseudo- Republicans" Take
Floor to Answer 0hioan for
COndemning Them.
HIRAM JOHNSON JOINS
IN ORATORICAL CLASH
Iowan Defines Word as Meaning
Lying, False, Counterfeit
and Spurious"

BY the Associated Press.
Senate pseudo Republicans" spoke
back today to Senator FeSs Of Ohio, the
Republican whip, who last week con-
demned them for failing to support
President Hoover's farm views, with
Senator Brookhart of Iowa replying on
the floor that he wasn't mad at the
Senator but Just sorry for him.
Before an expectant membership
awaiting his promised reply to the con-
demnation of Senator Fess, the Iowa
Republican took the floor today and re-
lated that he had looked up the word
pseudo" in the dictionary and had
found that it meant Lying, false, coun-
terfeit and spurious"
Whereupon Senator Fess interrupted
to explain that he picked up the phrase
pseudo Republican" from speech
made last week by Senator Johnson
Republican, of California
Senator Johnson at this point con-
graduated the Ohioan for picking up
sentence from him, adding that III
the Senator progresses still farther and
adopts the entire speech of the Senator
from California he will be doing we'll"
''Yess," said Senator Brookhart, that
is the first ray of light coming from the
Senator from Ohio But does he mean
to say that he didn't know himself what
the phrase pseudo Republican actually
meant?"
Pseudo Business i'm Farm Bill"
II must confess" replied the Ohioan
who was a professor before he entered
politics, that didn't have the exact
meaning of the phrase in mind that the
Senator from Iowa has placed upon it.
Senator Brookhart then declared thai
Il think this pseudo business is in the
farm bill rather than in the Republic
ans whom the Senator from Ohio crit
icizes.'
BrOOkhart Replies
Senator Brookhart asserted that the
farm program being advocated in Con-
gress was 1.-The spurious. counterfeit
and pseudo part OF this business.
The Intermediary credit law passed
in 1928 would do everything this bill
would do" the Iowan declared. "All this
bill does is to loan more money. The
intermediate credit law did that and
provided more money than does this
farm bill.
That's where the pseudo business
comes into this situation.
Talk about psuedo Republicans and
then think about calling Congress into
extra session to do what we have al
ready done and which has proved q
failure. That's where pseudo business
comes in; that's what was spurious and
counterfeit in this business" .-..s-
Few Argue for New Bill"
The Senator declared that there were
few stand pat" Republicans who argued
for the new farm bill
Where was the distinguished Sena-
lor from Pennsylvania CMr ReedD when
We We're discussing this farm bill,' he
asked. About all he had to say was
that 1t was q farm bunk bill and !
think he hit 1t about right"
Where was the distinguished chair
man OF the finance committee? ISenator
SmoOu. He was waiting around Tor
the tariff bill to come in.
The only distinguished standpatter
to fight for this farm bill was the Sem
ator from Ohio. OF course, the dis
tinguished Republican leader (Senat0r
Watson of Indiana) came to the front
for the bill, but about all he did was
to attempt to convince the Senate that
he was just about as inconsistent as
the Democratic leader (Senaor Robin
son OF ArkansaS), and have about
concluded he was right"