Evening star., 1933-04-09
FARM "D|CTATOR"
AUTHORITY FOUGHT
Senate G. O. P. to Present
Substitute Plan for Offer
ing This Week.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
A powerful effort to rip apart the
broad powers sought for Secretary
Wallace in the administration farm bill
was planned last night by Senate Re-
publican stalwarts, but. Democratic
leaders were confident Of repulsing the
threat.
A substitute plan was drafted by a
special Republican committee under
Senator Carey Republican, of wyoming,
and will be offered on the floor when
the Senate resumes the farm debate
this week.
Instead of handing Wallace ample
suthority to use any Of several plans for
restoring the 1909-19l4 farm price level
the Republican substitute proposes
leasing cotton and grain lands to cut
outlined this method Just before leav-
ing office.
Makes Public Program.
As the Senate minority was working
OH its proposition to lease q maximum
OF $4,000, 600 acres for two years, the
Special Committee on Agricultural
Policy of the Chamber of Commerce Of
the United States made public 10
point longtime farm program for
presentation to the chambers annual
meeting in May.
Roebuck g. Co., Chicago, was chairman
of this committee. Secretary Wallace
resigned from 1t upon entering the
cabinet. The 10-point plan, in brief
was:
Cooperation of Federal, State and
local governments to retire submarginal
lands; closing public domain to home
stead entry; refusing, with rare excep-
tions, appropriations for new irrigation
and drainage works; reciprocal tariff
agreements to expand the export mar
ket; repeal of Farm Board stabilization
operations; tax relief through lower
government costs; tariff protection for
fats and fibers; studying non-food uses
Of farm supplies; creation Of national
economic planning committee and con-
solidation Of Federal agricultural loan
ing agencies.
Would Require $15o,000,o
The Senate Republican substitute
would require an appropriation Of $780,
000, 900 to put the plan into operation.
This fund would be repaid to the Treas
ury through q proposed sales tax Of 2
per cent on articles made from cotton
and cereal grain.
The substitute incorporates the So
called Smith cotton option pool section
Of the administration bill and the farm
mortgage refinancing proposal submit
ted by President Roosevelt and now q
part of the Federal Democratic farm
program.
It eliminates the cost of production
guaranty section Of the administration
bill, which would permit Secretary Wal
lace, as an optional discretionary step, to
Ak minimum price for that share Of
the farmers crop going into the do
nnestic market
Senator McNary Of Oregon, the Re-
publican leader, decided yesterday
against holding q party conference to-
morrow to study the substitute, explain
ing the administration farm bill had
been considered fully and that the Re-
publican proposal would 60 to the door
from the committee
The majority Of Republicans are ex-
peeted to vote for it, but their strength
ts not considered by the Democrats
as sufncient to cause worry.
Other amendments including one to
BE onered by Senator Frazier, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota, as q substitute
for the mortgage refinancine plan win
require some time for disposition, but
leaders were hopeful the bill could be
returned to the House by Thursday or
Friday.
Frazier's proposal would refinance
farm debts at 1ka per cent interest
and l u per cent on the principal year.
ly, through expansion Of the currency,
As compared with w per cent interest
In the administration plan, which
would be financed by a $4,000, ,0O0, 900
issue OF Federal Land Bank bonds.
Hart Attacks Measure.
Representative Hart, Democrat, of
Michigan, who has been one Of the
most bitter foes of the farm. relief bill,
attacked the measure In an address
yesterday as being relief for the farm
relievers." He charged that the farmers
OF the United States are being mis-
represented" in Washington by the so
called farm lobby"
Attacking principally the salaries of
the Federal Farm Board, Hart said
that the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, according to its own testimony
directed the handling of the Federal
Farm Board with its policy of permit
ting farm leaders to draw salaries Of
nifty to seventy-five thousand dollars
q year"
Congress has but few men who
have had any experience In farm mar
keting," he said Therefore it Is COM
paratively easy for these pirates to raid
the Treasury with their unsoupd
schemes"