The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-19
INITIATION IS
DEMANDED BY
COTTON GROUP
Southern Farmers Threaten
Strike If Pleas Are
Not Needed.
RAP AGRICULTURAL PLAN
Currency Increase Proposal
Greeted by Thunder
of Approval.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times special Correspondent

WASHINGTON. sept lS.-i i0''
dent Roosevelt was confronted To-
dav with the vanguard of the infia-
Zionist army in the persons Oh
southern congressman and a num-
bar of dirt farmers who are demand,
ING expansion of the currency anu
talking of a cotton farmers strike Il
they don't get what they want.
Tho capital awaited. with ratner
tense expectation, some mixing from
the chief executive on imitation ne
will have the opportunity when the
farmers delegation representing
eleven southern states march 10 the
White House to present resolutions
adopted Monday in solemn conVen-
tion demanding immediate cur
rencv expansion" to raise the prlce
of cotton and other farm products.
They also carried to the Whlte
House a biting attack on the Presl-
dents agricultural program, as II al
fects cotton. This was in reSolu-
ton asking that the cotton process
sing tax be suspended until Jan. l
on the ground it is being PAID oy
the farmer. This was adopted win
a few timid, sOtto-vOce Noes Inc
imitation resolution, asking that the
President use his power to issue
treasury notes, went over with
thunder of Ayes
Mild Initiation Purpose
Usually, reliable administration
authorities we're of the opinion to-
dav that the administration prac-
tically has decided upon mild in
fiationary program upon which II
would embark shortly before con-
eress met. if conditions had not I'M
proved sufficiently to still the farm
clamOrs.
The redoubtable and persistent
Senator Elmer Thomas tDem
OklaD. who engineered the conven-
ton here. said today he had re-
ceived responses from $50 members
of congress in his poll of that body
Ninety-fve per cent of them are
for imitation, he said.
Because of the present mcer-
tainty of administration financial
policy, it was doubtful President
Roosevelt would tell his visitors any
thing today. He may not even see
them because of his illness. He was
unable to see them Monday night
though they were all for rushing
over to the White House immedl-
atelv with their complaints.
The farmer delegation also plans
to call upon Agriculture Secretary
Henry H. Wallace.
Condemn Processing Tax
They adopted the resolution con-
demning the cotton processing tax
despite a warning from RepreSen-
tative Miles Allgood dem, Ala ,
that Wallace was arbitrary on
that point and resolutions would
not move him.
Wallace doesn't make the cot
ton-we make the cotton. shouted
hack Senator Ellison D. Smith
Dem. S. c.. who was chairman
and damned through the resolution
bv main force and some rather
fancy oratory.
The initiation resolution, which
bore the stamp of Senator Thomas
throughout. declared that the pres
ent price of cotton jeopardizes the
national recovery program and
said that currency expansion is
necessary to restore the farmer
buying power.
It urged imitation to bring 70
cent cotton with the proviso that
If initiation failed to do that, then
the price be fixed at Is cents Inc
farmers named $50 a ton as the
price of cotton seed.
II recommended that hereafter
the cotton reduction be on the
basis of bales instead of acreage and
that Wallace fix 5000 900 bales as
the crop for 1884 and TX the neceS-
sary figure for 1885.