Evening star., 1933-03-31
ROOSEVELT CALLS
PARLEY WITH FOES
OF FARM AID BILL
Takes Measure in Own Hands
as Senate Committee
Fails to Agree.
CRITICS LACK STRENGTH
TO FORCE REWRITING
Want Presidents Views on 0pposi-
,don of Cattle and Sheep Indus
tries and Other Issues.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated FreSS.
President Roosevelt today took into
his own hands the administration farm
bill, summoning to a conference the
members of the Senate Agriculture
Committee after they had failed to
agree among themselves on what to do
with the bill.
The Senators had voted to have
Chairman Smith call on the President
and ask him if he would approve some
changes made by the committee in the
administration bill, but when efforts
were made to make the appointment for
Smith, Mr. Roosevelt sent back word he
would like to have the whole committee
come to the White House this after
noon.
Already opponents of the bill on the
committee have admitted privately that
they did not have the strength to re-
write it thoroughly, as they wished,
but there remained a number of
changes which had been voted into the
measure.
They sought to get decision on these
from Mr. Roosevelt. Pending the con-
ference they abandoned the closed ses-
sion study OF the bill.
Many Issues Faced.
One of the things members wanted
to discuss with President Roosevelt was
the determined opposition of the cattle
and sheep industry to being included
IN the bill, and what he thinks of the
addition yesterday by the committee
If fax and peanuts to the commodities
fy1r md ali oiy,o Of
authorizing Secretary Wallace to con-
slider the effect of the proposed process
ing tax on unemployment, wage scales
and consumption.
Prior to the decision to take the bill
to the President, the committee had
by unanimous vote of the Is members
present, decided to include in its report
on the bill a recommendation for the
expansion of the currency, on motion
of Senator Thomas, Democrat, Of
Oklahoma.
Thomas was authorized to prepare
this recommendation and told news
paper men the report would say mo
other legislation will do much good
until the dollar is cheapened and will
be only temporary and makeshift."
The Oklahoman added the report
would cite that def1ationary policies of
tllC ldcb QCCdOt Wcic IcSpDilSlUlc lOI
low prices and that currency expansion
would be the reverse of this policy and
lead to higher prices.
Substitute Plan Faced.
The committee met this morning with
prospects of taking up the substitute
plan suggested by Smith and other
proposed revisions. Already a vote on
the substitute had been postponed twice.
Other proposals to be taken up were
revisiors to include oats, potatoes,
citrus and other fruits in the already
large list of comm odities specified in
the bill as beneficiaries of price-lifting
action by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Indications were that the price fixing
proposal put forward by John A. Simp-
son, president of the National Farmers
Union, might be added as rider if the
Roosevelt plan goes through untouched.
The board of governors of the Amer
ican Cotton Manufacturers Association,
composed of Southern textile mills, last
night attacked the Roosevelt farm relief
program as bad legislation" and dan
gerous to all branches of the textile
industry and the farmer.
The board predicted that promptly
upon the passage of this act state OF
chaos will exist in the cotton manu-
featuring industry and in the distribu-
ton of cotton fabric and garments
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