Evening star., 1935-08-25
Senate Sets
Session for
Tomorrow.
DELAY WINS
BY 5 MINUTES
Fight on Cotton.
Wheat Loans
Remains.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

In desperate last-minute drive
the cotton and wheat blocs in the
Senate prevented a final adjourn
ment Of Congress at midnight last
night.
The Senate and House stand in
recess until tomorrow at noon.
With the Skids all creased for a get
away, something faltered The House
voted. 202 to 95, to return to the
Senate the concurrent resolution
earlier adopted, providing for adjourn
ment August "a.
Precisely five minutes before the
hour of midnight, when adjournment
would have been automatic the House
clerk breathlessly rushed into the
Senate chamber bearing the adjourn
ment resolution.
Byrnes Asks Reconsideration.
Immediately Senator ByrneS of
South Carolina, leader of the cotton
bloc in this fight, moved a recon-
sideration of the vote by which the
Senate had adopted the adjournment
resolution. Vice President Garner put
the motion and there was a roar of
ayes" No Senator voted no" A
moment later Senator Robinson of
Arkansas, the Democratic leader,
moved a recess of the Senate until
tomorrow.
For hours the cotton and wheat
Senators had tried to bring back from
the House the adjournment resolution
1t was their only hope to save the
third deficiency appropriation bill
which carried their amendment for
12-cent Government loans on cotton
and ll2-cent loans per pound on
wheat.
The House leaders had decreed the
deficiency bill with these amendments
should be allowed to die, even though
it carried more than S76.000.00 for
beginning the operation of the
economic security bill. They fatty
declined to permit the bill to be sent
to conference as requested by the
Senate
In view of the votes taken in the
House and Senate last night, it now
seems probable that the cotton and
wheat amendments of the Senate will
be written into the deficiency bill and
the measure sent to the President.
Whether the Chief Executive would
veto the bill under such circumstances
has not been disclosed.
The administrators recent order
limiting loans on cotton to farmers to
cents pound started all the trouble.
The cotton farmers have had 12-cent
loans in the past.
The loans to wheat farmers would
establish an entirely new practice.
A coalition Of the cotton and wheat
Senators alone made possible the vic
tory of the cotton men yesterday. 1t
required a tWo-thirdS vote of the
Senate to write the cotton loan legis-
1ation into an appropriation bill under
the rules Of the Senate. A motion
to suspend the rules, made by Sem
ator Byrnes yesterday afternoon so
as to make in order the cotton amend
ment, was carried by a vote of SO
to 19. Immediately Senator Frazier
OF North Dakota, speaking for the
wheat Senators, proposed an amend
ment to the cotton amendment au-
thorizing Government loans on wheat
to the farmers.
The Frazier motion prevailed by a
vote of Al to % and then both the
Byrnes and Frazier amendments were
inserted in the bill
Apparently certain of an adjourn
ment last night. the President earlier
had sent to both Vice President Gar
ner and Speaker Byrns letters bidding
them good-by and congratulating
them on the good work of the session.
But he spoke too soon.
Il expect we will be here several
days" said Senator Robinson, the
Democratic leader, after the recess
finally was taken.
Turbulent scenes were enacted in
both Houses last night. At one point
when Senator Tydings of Maryland
was addressing the Senate while the
cotton Senators were itching to get 10
a vote on the Byrnes motion to request
the return by the House of the ad-
journment resolution, Senator Clark of
(See ADJOURNMENT PAGE Al