Evening star., 1936-02-15

BY the Associated Press.
Summoning the Senate into session
an hour earlier than customary. Demo-
cratic leaders determined to push the
$500 900 900 farm aid bill through that
chamber today without fail.
BY dusk yesterday, they had driven
it almost to the point of vote. but a
few amendments and motions re-
manned to be acted on, SO they de-
ferred further discussion until the
session starting at IL am. today.
Among those who put their shoulders
to the wheel in behalf of the bill was
Senators Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas, a supporter of Gov. ALI M.
Landon for the Republican presidential
nomination. He spoke kindly Of it in
a radio address last night, after saying
on the Senate floor that it was a
partial answer" to the farm problem.
Already the Senate had slapped
down some major alterations and addi-
tions to the new measure. calling for
subsidies for soil conservation. Sen
ator Connally, Democrat, of Texas.
sought without avail to tack on rider
calling for the export debenture plan.
Debenture Plan Loses.
This plan, authorizing the payment
of Federal bounties on farm exports,
equal to half the tariff on imports of
the sam kinds Of commodities. was
smashed, AZ to 81, after Democratic
leaders had made plain they opposed it.
Senator vandenberg. Republican. OF
Michigan, had no better luck with his
amendment to clamp embargoes on
imports of basic farm products on
which export bounties were paid. This
was beaten, 81 to 25.
Before the leaders could call the
final roll today, they had to contend
with Republican move to send the
whole bill back to the Agriculture
Committee and hold public hearings
on it.
Also pending we're minority substi-
tutes calling for tariff boosts on farm
products and a program under which
the Government would buy up huge
quantities of farmland. The Demo-
cratic leaders were confident these
moves would fair and the farm bill
go through through virtually un-
changed.
Bounty for Conservation.
Intended as substitute for the
invalidated A. A. A. system OF benefit
payments to farmers contracting to
control production, the bill provides a
dual plan of subsidies to those who
conserve soil" by retiring land from
commercial crop production. For the
first two years the Government would
grant the subsidies direct to farmers,
or if States co-operated, they could ad-
minister the program and distribute
the funds. After two years farmers In
incorporating States would receive
no more subsidies.
Senator Robinson, Democrat, Of Ar
kansas, fought Connally's export de-
benture plan on the ground 1t was in
consistent with the crop curtailment
aim of the bill. He said the de-
benture plan would stimulate" pro-
duction. Senators McAdoo, Democrat,
of California; Borah, Republican. OF
Idaho, and Clark, Democrat, OF Mis-
souri,, rallied to Connally's support.
They said it would raise the price OF
surplus products and that 1t would
not conflict with the bill.
Capper, in his radio address, said
the farm bill lays "the groundwork
for a national land utilization pro-
gram" Although he disagreed with
some A. A. A. policies, he said the
A. A. A. was a first step toward
permanent national farm program.
Consumer Protection Fails.
Another roll call yesterday turned
back, 81 to Is, an amendment by Sem
ator Wagner, Democrat, of New York,
designed to protect consumers against
a food shortage by declaring con-
servation of soil should not be car
(see FARM, Page a.