The Washington times., 1936-01-07
IN EFFECT
UNTIL FINAL
RULING, AIM
Frazier Farm Relief
Measure Will Be
Pushed Forward
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A drive was In prospect today
to curb the injunction power
which lower courts have been
utilizing to restrain the Admins.
tration from enforcing acts Of
Congress pending Supreme Court
rulings on the validity Of those
acts.
It would be done by Congress.
Sional amendment Of the judicial
code.
This was one collateral develop
ment following the far-reaching
AAA decision which served further
to stress the recent breach be-
tween the judiciary and the
White House and the majority on
Capitol Hill.
Presidents Stand
It was what President Roose-
welt had in mind when he wrote
into his annual message to Con-
gress, delivered before the SUI
preme Court acted on the AAA,
the following two sentences:
"The carrying out Of the laws
Of the land as enacted by the
Congress requires protection
until final adjudication by the
highest tribunal Of the land.
The Congress has the right and
can find the means to protect
Its own prerOgativeS."
The right" Of Congress to which
Mr.. Roosevelt referred is con-
tanned in the Constitution, which
established the Supreme Court
but vested in Congress the au.
thority to set up all inferior
courts.
One Case Is Test
It was the avalanche of suits
attacking major elements of the
Administrators recovery reform
program which caused Attor-
ney General Cummings re-
Gently to plead personally in
the District of Columbia Supreme
Court that one suit would serve
as q test case in any given issue.
Cummings protested that Govern
ment lawyers were physically un-
able to keep abreast Of the cases
filed all over the country. He
won his point in this particular
jurisdiction.
Stunned by the Supre m e
Courts death blow to, the AAA,
Administration leaders of Con-
greSs today turned to bonus and
neutrality legislation while pom
dering steps that might be taken
to revive the agriculture adjust
ment administration.
Frazier Bill Revived
One effect of the decision was
announcement of a drive to enact
the Frazier cost.production farm
relief bill. This measure was
originally a part Of the AAA bill.
but at the last moment it was
stricken out when Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace announced
his opposition to it.
The Frazier plan would guar.
antee farmers their cost Of pro.
duction on any crop. This
would be accomplished by en-
poWering q Federal agency to
determine the cost Of production,
then making it illegal either for
a person to purchase or sell that
farm commodity at a lower price,
It was opposed by the Admins
tration in 1888 on the ground
that it was clearly unconStitu'
tional.
Despite the courts AAA de-
cision, Representative Eicher Cd
of Iowa announced he would push
enactment Of the Frazier bill in
the House. Senator Frazier (R.)
of North Dakota, its author, said
he would take like steps in the
Senate.
Bonus Move Today
While waiting on Administra-
ton leaders to recover from the
shock of the Supreme Courts rul-
ing, the House turned to bonus
and neutrality legislation. Bonus
leaders hoped to obtain a rule to-
day, which would call for con-
Sideration Of the cash bonus bill
Thursday. Committee hearings
were started, meanwhile, on neu-
trality legislation.
President Roosevelt'S annual
budget message, calling for total
expenditures of $6,752, 606,370 in
the next fiscal year, was almost
lost in the confusion following the
AAA verdict. Republican spokes
men recovered quickly enough to
assail the Presidents program for
creating another deficit,