Evening star., 1936-01-19

of crop control. benefit payments
to farmers and tares on professors.
on January s, United States Su-
preme Court inualidated program.
Administration leaders called in
farmers, agreed on plan to be OPP
Grated under eristing soil con-
seruation laws, amended to meet
needs.
Problem of financing existing
contracts inuolpes raising OF at
least $500, 900, 900. individual farm
friends in Congress haze proposed
seUerul plans.
| By the Associated Press.
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, oi
Alabama, announced last night he
would introduce-probably Tuesday
legislation for new $3.50, ,00O, 900 farm
program representing his interpreta-
tion Of the administrations views.
Explaining that his bill would
broaden and enlarge" the 1885 soil
conservation act, Bankhead declared
it would accomplish in large measure
| the same results that have been Sc
cured under the A. A. A."
The Senator said an appropriation
Of $350,OO0,000 would be sought to
finance drafts to farmers based upon
their compliance with plans promul-
gated by the Secretary Of Agriculture. u
In practical application, Bankhead
said, these would include "diversifica-
tion and rotation in crops, crop ad-
justments and soil building"
Asked If his was administration
legislation, Bankhead said 1t contains
my Interpretation Of the agreement
reached at the White House confer
ence this week. of which was q
member"
He added that after consultation
with colleagues and "able lawyers out
side Congress" he was fully satisfied
that the new bill will stand the test
Of the courts If it ever reaches the
courts
Use Of A. A. A. Organization.
The Senator said his bill, which he
hoped to have attached as an amend
ment to the first appropriation meas
ure taken up by the Senate would
authorize administration Of the farm
program through the present A. A. A.
organization.
Asked how the program would be
financed, Bankhead said that would
be decided later. adding, 1--WE want to
keep this entirely separated"
Earlier yesterday, Secretary Wallace
fixed February IS as the date when
the new program should become ef-
fective to apply TO crops grown in
1886.
In his first press conference since
A A. A. was invalidated, Wallace said
preparation Of legislation was con-
gressional function" but he added:
"Th. important thing Is to expand
the definition of the soil conservation
act to include specifically soil conser-
vation and preservation of fertility
and not merely erosion control"
Administration leaders have said the
soil conservation act would be the
basis fJr a new program calling for
cash payments to farmers. They
hoped to obtain authorization through
amendments rather than new laws.
Grave Public Concern.
Wallace said he believed the people
of the United States would be "gravely
concerned" over efforts of manufac-
turers to obtain refund Of processing
taxes paid the Treasury. Both the
$1,000, 100000 collected and the $780,
0o0, 900 impounded by court action. he
said, should be held in the same status
Public opinion, he added, "woulo
hot tolerate" refund of these taxes
which he asserted have been passed or
to the consumer by processing firms
Tho Supreme Courts decision in 8
rice mixers case has been interpreted
as requiring the return OF the, i'm
pounded $200,000.000.
Declaring that Congress has no
asked the A. A. A. for any estimate O.
cost OF The new program. the Secretar!
declined to speculate on this phase
Unof1clal estimates have placed thii
cost at between 100000, 900 and $780,
900, 900
wallace called attention to survey
made py department expert which
,lassed 35,Oo00oo acres planted IL
corn, cotton and wheat as &C" ane
ID" slopes, which he explained shoule
be planted only in grass or trees.
Experts classifying land as to the
degree Of slope and the danger ol
erosion, say that "A" and "B" slope:
can be cultivated with erosion con-
trolled.
Foreign Buying Power.
The Agriculture Secretary reiterated
his contention that the long time solu-
ton for agricultural problems must in
clude building up foreign purchasing
power. and insisted that at present
there is no market for the products OF
about 50,O0O,000 acres of the Nations
commercial crop land.
| He warned that the amount Of corr
loans from the 1885 crop, now As cents
a bushel, probably would be reduced
Wallace said that corn loans could not
be continued indefinitely without pro.
duction control and that the Recon
struction Finance Corp, which fur
nishes money for the loans. probably
would insist on a reduction in the loan
rate.
Declaring that the A. A. A. field
organization would be ideal to handle
the new farm program, Wallace said
the agency's personnel probably would
deal with the soil conservation and
soil fertility phases of the new pro-
gram and that the Soil Conservation
Service would concentrate on erosion
control.
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