Evening star., 1935-07-21
CAPITOL REVOLT FLARES
AS SESSION LENCTHENS
Dissension Growing in Every Direction,
With Bitter Fight Over Blocking
of Frazier-L Lemke Bill.

to prevent a vote are
worse than anything Uncle Joe"
Cannon ever attempted to put over.
Rumors and reports have been COM
ing to Washington of late that the
administration is slipping" Such
reports are frequent from the West
and from the agricultural country,
despite the distribution of millions Of
dollars of benefit money.
Major Worry for 1886.
AS Postmaster General James A.
Farley, National Democratic chairman,
searches the country to find out what
is happening, there is little doubt
that he will find the dissatisfaction
over this blocking Of the Frazier
Lemke bill by administration lieuten-
ants a major worry for 1886. The
presidential vote may be affected pro-
foundly by this controversy.
Discomfort of the FrazierLemke bill
advocates, moreover, must be consid-
cred in connection with the whole
controversy that has arisen over the
Governments agricultural policies,
more especially the regime Of the
A. A. A. with its processing taxes and
its efforts through the new A. A. A.
bill to expand its authority to bring
the farmer under the control Of Gov
ernment to a degree unheard of previ-
ously, even in war time.
In recent days the Senate debate
on the A. A. A. bill has brought out
an mazing volume of criticism of the
bill and various phases of the A. A. A.
system from prominent Democratic
Senators.
Validity Is ASA led.
Validity of the A. A. A, bill was
assailed by some of the ablest SEN
ate lawyers, most of them Demo-
cratic and while this was occurring.
the United States Circuit Court at
Boston declared unconstitutional the
processing taxes and floor taxes of
the A. A. A.. under which the Gov
ernment had collected about $780,
OO0, 900 and planned to collect almost
as much more.
On the one hand. consumers and
professors are stirred by workings of
the A. A. A, and on the other hand,
over wide areas, farmers are in re-
volt because they find administration
chiefs in Congress torpedoing a meas
ure in which they hold much hope,
the FrsZier-Lemke plan for financing
farm mortgages at low figures. In
this plan they see road out of the
bogs of debts
More will be heard of this conten-
ton over the Frazier-Lemke bill. 1t
has aroused bad blood in the House
and evidently will arouse more, espe-
cially if the Speaker and his marshals
block a vote in August.
Lemke Demands Vote.
"There will be a vote on this bill
this session, or the people will know
why not" declared Representative
Lemke as he protested against the
tactics used to block the discharge
petition.
He declared the 1892 Democratic
platform promises had not been car
ried out, that these promises were
made to the Farmers Union and
other farm organizations, that low
interest rates on farm mortgages and
a cost t-of- production system had been
promised, but not given.
so far, we've got only the coupon
clippers refinancing of the farmers"
he declared as he attacked the A. A. A.
policy of curtailment of production.
Mr.. Lemke said the bill provided
that the Government refinance ex-
tsting farm indebtedness at 11a per
cent interest. This would mean saw
ing of billions to the farmers, he
pointed out. 1t would mean putting
into circulation several billion dollars
of new money, Federal Reserve notes,
secured by first mortgages on farm
lands. Mr.. Lemke denied that this
was fiat money proposition or that
there was anything Savoring of undue
imitation in it. He pointed out that
the bill had the indorsement of vari-
Gus farm organizations and about half
the State legislatures. including the
lower houses of New York, Ohio and
Delaware.
II there is no vote this session on
the bill, say its advocates, a campaign
will be carried to the country to reach
down to the grass roots" Political
scalps will be lost in this campaign,
according to the feeling currently dis
played. Stranger things than this
have turned presidential campaigns.
tCopyTight. 1850