Evening star., 1936-01-29
NEW FARM PLAN
.|S0.K.' .'DBY SENATE
COMMITTEE, 15T02
Approval Given Proposal to
SubSidize Soil Con.
SerVati0n.
SOME ARE SKEPTlCAL
OF CONSTITUTlCNALITY
Meeting Likely Tomorrow to Dis.
cuss Senator Thomas Cheap
Money" Proposal.

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Ouerthrow OF New Deal farm
program OF crop control and cash
benefits to farmers has been fol-
lowed By lack OF agreement be-
tUeen friends OF agriculture in and
out OF Congress.
Administration support is be-
ing accorded, rather uncertainty, to
plan for subsidies under soil con-
SerUdtion lGWs Constitutional
doubts erist. Others ddUocate er-
port debenture program or price
raising By imitation.
BY the Associated Press
Burdened with constitutional doubts
and threatened with Infiationary at.
tacks, the revised administration SOL.
conservation subsidy Plan for replace
ing the A. A. A. was ordered reported
to the Senate today by its Agriculture
Committee. The vote was IS to 2
Chairman Smith expressed grave
doubt as to the measures constitL-
tionality and said he and several others
of the Is on the affirmative side voted
merely to report it instead of ia
vorably' reporting it.
He and Senator Bankhead. Demo-
crat, of Alabama who introduced The
bill. declared, however, that a ma
jority of those voting wanted a ia
vorable" report.
Senators McNary of Oregon. the Re-
publican leader and Norbeck, Repub-
lican, of South Dakota voted against
the bill, which goes to the floor with
out material change.
To Discuss Cheap Money"
Smith said the committee would
meet tomorrow TO decide whether to
include in the report, but not in the
bill. an argument by Senator Thomas,
Democrat, of Oklahoma for more and
cheaper money to keep up farm prices.
Smith, an advocate Of initiation,
said
Il rather think this will be included
in the report
Thomas and Louis B. Ward, none
tary consultant to Rev. Father Charles
E. Coughlin, urged the committee in
secret session to incorporate the guam
titative money theory in the report TO
the Senate.
Although Secretary Wallace and
Solicitor General Stanley Reed had
expressed opinions the bill is constitu-
tional, several committee members still
Supreme Court decision invalidating
A. A A.
Designed as Stop Gap.
The bill vests broad powers In the
Secretary of Agriculture to make
grants to farmers for economic use Of
their lands. 1t is a temporary. two
year measure designed TO serve as
stop-gap until permanent program
is enacted based on Federal grants to
States.
Today's action was attributed by
some Senators TO demands from the
farm belt for speedy vote.
On the House side, the Agriculture
Committee was in recess until the
latter part of the week. Chairman
Jones emphasized that we are work.
ing"
Jones to Address Farmers.
Jones leaves today TO address the
Illinois Farm Bureau Federation at
Decatur tomorrow night, but expected
to be back III time for Friday COM
mittee meeting if developments war.
ranted. Chester Davis. A. A. A. ad-
ministrator, will go to Illinois with
Jones'
I'VE will have meeting the latter
part of the week" Jones said.
A statement yesterday by Chairman
Smith indicated Solicitor General
Reed had failed to convince all COM
mittee members that the replacement
plan involving an amendment to the
soil conservation act would meet con-
stitutional requirements.
Several members said Smith, do
not believe the present draft of the
bill escapes the Supreme Court de-
cision in the A. A. A. case"
Wallace Takes Crack at Court.
Reed said it would Secretary Wall
lace said he believed the majority
of the committee was convinced the
bill is constitutional, but constitu-
tionality means one thing-passing the
Supreme Court another
Coincidentally, Wallace described
the courts decision in refunding $780,
100000 to professors as probably the
greatest legalized steal in history"
President Roosevelt yesterday in
formed his press conference that
whether new taxation shall be sought
to finance new farm-aid plan is
still under study, with no prospect of
an immediate decision. Last week,
Attorney General Cummings said new
tax legislation was "in process" Of
formation by the Treasury and Justice