Evening star., 1933-03-17
Tax Features Bring Shift as
Agricultural Groups De-
mand Speed.
REPRESENTATIVES CLEAR
WAY FOR EARLY ACTION
Committee Arranges to Hear Wal.
lace After Appearance This Morn
ing Before Senate Group.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A decision that the presidential farm
relief program constituted revenue rails
ing threw Congress into single file to-
day, with the Senate to follow the
House in attacking the problem.
Previously an appeal for immediate
action had been sent to the Senate and
House Agriculture Committees by q
number of farm organizations.
The Senate committee decided tina
revenue features of the bill required
that it originate in the House. and
withheld any action until the bill is
passed there.
The farm organizations statement
concluded with the assertion that de
lay Will be fatal" 1t was signed by
number of groups, including the Amer
ican Farm Bureau Federation. the Ma
tional Grange Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union, Farmers Ma
tional Grain Corporation. American
Cotton Cooperative Association, Ma
tional Live Stock Marketing Associa-
tion and National Committee of Farm
Organizations.
Quick Action Planned.
In the House, plans were proceeding
for early action on the bill The Agri-
culture Committee arranged to hear
from administration advisers an ex-
PLANTATION of the bill. Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wallace. after a morning ap-
pearance before the Senate committee.
was ready to appear before the House
committee in the afternoon.
At the White House it was said that
reaction to the Presidents message of
yesterday and to the bill was slow in
coming. and that no protests had been
received. Members of Congress were
beginning to hear from constituents on
both sides of the question.
The brief statement, addressed to
the two committees by the farm Or
ganizations, said
The administrations farm bill pend
ing before your committee today is III
accord with policies advocated by farm
organizations for several years and
agrees with the outline of principles
for surplus control and establishment
Of parity between agricultural and in
dustrial prices as agreed upon last
Friday by representatives of farm
groups.
I'VE trust your committee will re-
port this bill promptly and then urge
Congress to enact it Immediately IN
order that its provisions may be ap-
plicable to crops that are now ready
for. planting.
Delay will be fatal
The statement was made public by
w. r. Ronald, editor OF the Mitchell,
s. Oak. Republican.
Before the Senate Committee. there
we're demands from several Senators for
open hearings but there was hope on
the House side that these might be
dispensed with.
Despite the urge for speed. there
were signs that the President S pre-
scription for the Nations agricul-
tural ills was bound up rougher road
poSals for emergency action routed to
Congress in the last eight days.
Hearings to Be Asked.
1t is expected hearings would be de-
manded in behalf of their constituents
by several Senators, including Long,
Democrat of Louisiana, whether these
hearings would be open or executive
will be for the committee to determine
Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re
publican leader and former chairman
of the Agriculture Committee, declined
to comment on the prospects of pas
sage as he entered the meeting. but
Senator Capper, Republican of Kansas,
expressed himself as willing to go along
with them" In putting over the pro-
gram.
Friends of the administration pro-
gram. although confident of it's ultimate
passage by the Senate admitted progress
there probably would be slower than
that recorded by the Roosevelt proposals
for banks, economy and beer.
There was a scattered undercurrent OF
hostility toward the measures. Senator
Russell of Georgia indicated dislike for
the speed which the Senate is acting.
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