Evening star., 1936-02-03
EARL|ERSTRUGGLE
ON INITIATION SEEN
Battle May Be Opened on
Frazier-Lemke Mort.
gage Bill.
BACKGROUND

000, 900 900 for settlement of bonus
obligations and support OF neD
tarm-atd program has brought ad-
ninistration face to face DitT rep-
cnue problem.
With bulk Of eTtra cash needed
this Summer, t,oo immediate meth
DDS are open-borro,Ding or infa-
ton. FOLLOWING former procedure
leaues necessity OF settling added
obligations In future, also By one
OF tUo nlethods-tdTeS or imitation.
Considering this set-up in nature
OF opportunity, imitation blocs in
both House and Senate plan uigor-
Gus efforts In tauor OF "printing
press money" President Roosevelt,
hoDeDer, has indicated ansl1cr Utl
be found In neW or increased tares.
BY the Associated Press.
Inflationists and "antis" were lined
up in Congress today, awaiting only a
signal to fall afoul of each other in
what promises to be spectacular
fight.
The signal, it appeared, might be the
introduction of administration tax
legislation-if such legislation is intro
duced soon. Led by Senator Thomas,
Democrat, Of Oklahoma. and Repre-
sentative Patman, Democrat, of Texas,
currency expansionists have an
nounced they will fight to block any
new tax program. They favor print
ing new money instead.
If the tax issue is not raised soon
there is believed to be a possibility
that the two opposing forces may go
to the mat first over the Fazier- -Lemke
farm mortgaging refinancing bill.
The forces behind this bill, which
calls for refinancing of farm indebted
ness on easy terms through the issu-
ance of up to $4,000. .0o0, 900 in new
money, have succeeded in getting 215
signatures on a petition to force vote
in the House Only 218 are needed,
and its hackers are pressing for the
three names.
Aid From Coughlin.
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit
radio priest, came to their aid by
saying the FraZier-Lemke bill would
b. the principal weapon in a CAM
paig,l by his National Union for So
cial Justice to attain $3.50 wheat, 81
corn and 20-cent cotton"
BY aiding distressed rural debtors,
Father Coughlin said at Detroit, the
bill would "liberate 100000 of our
population from economic slavery"
He charged that elected servants
of the money changers" have "misused
the Presidents name to defeat the
bill"
President Roosevelt, he said, "as-
sured committee of House members
last August that he was not opposed
to the Frazier -Lemke bill"
rs it conceivable" the priest asked,
that these Wall Street whBperers
use his name with permission when
they insist that he is now opposed
to the bill?"
BY whatever route the imitation issue
comes to the floor of House or Senate,
congressional leaders express every
confidence that it will be defeated by
wide margin.
Hope for Speed.
The leaders are hoping to push the
administration farm relief bill. and
perhaps bonus pay-of appropria-
ton of more than S2000,000, 900
through the Senate this week
Neither the farm bill, expected to
cost up to s5o0.Ooo,0Oo a year, nor
the bonus appropriation will specify
how the money is to be raised.
The President has taken the view
that s500,0G0, 900 in taxation will be
needed this session to finance the
farm program, involving subsidized
soil conservation. Other administra-
ton sources indicate they are study
ing the idea of levying s230000,o00
taxes annually to amortize the bonus
cost by 1945.
However, no official recommends
ton on taxes has gone from the White
House to Capitol Hill. Legislators.
feeling the issue is delicate one in
campaign year, show no disposition
to make any move until the President
ofdcially reveals his desire.