Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
PRESIDENT FACES
MANY BIG ISSUES
Farm Boards Wheat Hold
ings Present One of Major
Problems at Present.
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farmers through the higher prices which
they obtained.
The board, he said, had loaned great
sums of money on adequate security to
cooperative marketing organizations.
Would Hold Wheat.
Senator Watson expressed the opinion
that the most practical thing the Farm
Board could do in connection with
its wheat holdings was to pledge itself
to hold on to this wheat perhaps for
a period of two years. Senator McNary
pointed out that the Farm Board has
taken over a million bales of cotton
in its efforts TO help the cotton grow
erS. He said that this had been an
assistance in keeping up the price of
cotton, and that he believed eventually
the cotton could be disposed of.
Senator Reeds suggestion that the
Federal Farm Board be abolished was
attacked also by Representative James
A. FTear OF Wisconsin, a member Of
the Progressive group in the House.
Mr.. Frear also criticized Senator Reed
for his opposition to the Veterans
bonus legislation. Frear during the
last session of Congress proposed bill
to raise the rate of taxes so as to
pay for the soldiers bonus. He charged
last night that wealthy families in
Pittsburgh, Senator Reeds home town,
had been beneficiaries of Government
handouts through the tariff, and
through appropriations to construct
battlesnips for many years.
Agriculture has bought Pennsyl-
vania's products as long as it had the
money to buy, but with thousands of
deserted farm houses throughout por-
tons of the wheat belt, these helpless
creatures look at the billions of dollars
accumulated by single families in Pitts
burgh and wonder where and how
handouts have been most largely dis
tributed In the past" said Mr.. Frear.
Roosevelt Suggested for Race.
While the President has been away,
the political goSsips have suggested the
immediate need of obtaining a new
chairman OF the Republican National
Committee in place Of Senator Tess Of
Ohio. They have gone further and
suggested that Gov. Roosevelt of Porto
Rico was to be drafted as a vice presi-
Dental candidate to run on the ticket
next year with President Hoover in
place of Vice President Curtis.
These are matters that President
Hoover himself must pass upon in the
end. Responsible Republican leaders
now in Washington declare they have
no idea that Vice President Curtis will
be side-tracked for Gov. Roosevelt or
any one else, by the President, pro-
vided the Vice President wishes to run
again.
There does not seem to be any posi-
bility that Senator Fess Will step out
OF the Craftsmanship of the Republican
National Committee before Midsummer,
II then. Senator Fess has let IL be
known that he is anxious to be relieved
of the duties of national chairman.
However, important members of the
National Committee are urging him to
remain, as chairman. In the first place,
they do not like a continuous shifting
in the Office of chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, and in the
second, they contend that Mr.. Tess can
well handle the job up TO the time of
the next National Convention if he will
DO so. number Of names have been
suggested as successors to Senator Fess,
the latest among them being Secretary
Hurley OF the Var Department. Whether
Secretary HUXLEY would wish 10 leave
the War Department to take over the
Craftsmanship is not known. Another
member Of the cabinet, Walter F..
Brown, the Postmaster General, has
been suggested for the Craftsmanship.
But 1t Is stated on high authority that
Mr.. Brown absolutely does not wish
the Craftsmanship.