Evening star., 1935-07-24
MOD|F|E led A. A. A.
FACES NEW FIGHT
Senate Passes Measure.
Goes to. Conference.
Suits Restricted.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Finally passed by the Senate with
many notifications, the A. A. A.
amendment bill designed to broaden
the Roosevelt crop-control program
and protect it against certain legal
attacks, headed today toward new
struggle in conference.
There were indications that the
House, which previously had passed
the bill, would fight for some pro-
visions eliminated by the Senate be-
fore it approved the measure. "a to
Is. yesterday.
Chairman Jones of the House Agri-
culture Committee is eager for the
return of the House provision to per-
nit the use of 80 per cent of the
Nations customs receipts to finance
the disposal of exportable surpluses
abroad.
Treaty Ban Killed.
Final Senate action came after the
defeat of an effort to include in the
bill provision TO limit the power Of
the President to negotiate trade agree
mentS.
1t required two weeks Of debate,
often furious, to wade through the
legislation which had two principal
aims-to give the Agriculture Depart
ment new means in its effort to in
crease farm prices, and to prepare
the broad program for the time when
the Supreme Court will pass upon its
constitutionality.
Bearing in mind a Circuit Court
decision unfaVorable to the processing
tax provisions, the Senate validated
the rates already imposed by the Sec
retary of Agriculture. All benefit
contracts under which farmers have
been paid about s7OO,OO0,O 900 also were
legalized
Indication was given of the coming
conference fight when the Senate
yesterday refused to reconsider its
action in rejecting the export subsidy
section.
Suits Partially OutIawed.
Another matter for the conference
to consider is the Senate provision
permitting professors, under certain
conditions, TO bring suits 10 recover
processing taxes paid to the Govern
ment The A. A, A. had sought TO
bar all such suits.
Some administration men believe
thev cannot restore the complete
outlawing of suits in view of the Sen
ate vote, but there is an expressed
hope that the authorization may be
reframed to make it more difficult for
professors to sue.
AS it stands, professors who can
prove they paid the tax and did not
pass it on to the consumer, may bring
action. Federal agents may examine
professors books under a provision
inserted yesterday at the instance Of
A. A. A. hackers.
A sweeping amendment by Senator
Gore Democrat, of Oklahoma requir-
ing Senate confirmation of higher
salaried, non-civil service employees
who serve in supervisory capacities
under the A. A. A. law "or any other
act went into the bill with little op-
position
The bill carries provisions for mar
keting agreements among handlers of
farm goods, but these no longer in
clude minimum price regulations. The
marketing agreement machinery is set
up only for commodities in interstate
/ commerce
Cotton MinimumS Fixed.
Another amendment provides that
no State should be allotted less than
100000 bales under the Bankhead
cotton control act if that State pro-
duced 250 600 bales during any of the
/ previous flve years, and no less than
10000 bales if it had produced 100000
bales during any year in the same
| period.
In its present form the measure
carries amendments permitting the
President to impose quota restrictions
on farm imports. authorization to use
s5o,000,oo0 in work relief funds for
the purchase of submarginal lands,
and an adjustment program for po-
| tatoeS.
! The Senate roll call on passage fol-
lows:
/ FOR THE BILL, 81,