The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

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have to pay more than O,OOO,--
600 pledged to certain groups OF
farmers for cooperation in crop
reduction.
8. President Roosevelt confer
red Immediately with Secretary
Of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace,
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings and congressional farm
leaders to study the opinion and
prepare new legislation.
4. Congressional leaders pre-
dicted the decision would add
many weeks to the present SEES
sion of congress.
s. A dissenting opinion signed
by the three liberal jurists on the
bench warned sharply that the
courts did not have a monopoly
on capacity to govern.
6. The fate Of 5000, OOO, 900 II
processing taxes tied up in Lh'
courts is in doubt.
Other Acts AffeCted
Z. Collection Of prOcesdong tax
es will be stopped Immediately
The AAA announced it woul'
stop benefit payments immediate
AS the full scope Of the opin
ion became known lawyers, sal,
it probably doomed:
The Bankhead cotton control act
The Kerr-Smith tobacco act.
The new potato act.
These three new deal measure
, carry definite compulsory proviS
! ions through the imposition
: heavy taxes on farmers not c.
: operating with the government
: The new deal itself did not fave
these acts but was forced to a.
cept them by congress.
The Jones-Costigan sugar act,
part of the AAA, died with Il
act. Lawyers felt the decision
the majority had cast doubt al
over the legality of the CUTIE
coal act, which imposes a tax
recalcitrants. They studied, f
possible revision, parts of the S
cial security act in which the ia
ing power is used.
The president urged congress
enact the Guffey act designated
innpose a ''little NRA" on the &C
industry regardless of its "douI
: fuI constitutionality." The ISIS
here is expected to hinge on t
decision of the court as to whet
err bituminous coal is an intersts
: industry and thus subject to fl
eral regulation.
The President Smiles
President Roosevelt received
ID crushing news with a smile. S
n retary Wallace was in cOnferel
IS and after reading note conta
IN ing the bad news he cast it as
o. and went on with his conversati
or Some republicans in congress W
n. iubilant. Others shared the glo
of the democrats who are Diet
mined to pass substitute legiS
ton.
The political effect of the de-
ion was problematical. RePres
tative Hamilton Fish, republic
New York, said it is "now up
. the republicans" to come fo
with a constructive farm progr
Minority Leader Charles Men
of the Senate said he would Of
: his expcrt-debenture plan. Nj
agreed that the opinion had !
. jected the farm question into
= top flight of political issues in
= 1886 campaign.
. The majority opinion was s.
. ed by Justices Owen J. Robe
Willis Van Daventer, James
! = McReynolds, George Sutherl'
Pierce Butler and Chief Jus
! : Charles Evans Hughes.
It said in effect that cong
: !. did not have powar under
! . constitution to authorize the
eminent to regulate the amour
!, : cotton, corn, hogs, wheat, pean
: rice or other products any
(. can raise on his farm.
: Holds Processing Tax Inval
:, 4" Also, the court held, the
v . gress has no right to tax
5 group of citizens, in this case
le professors to pay another 81
: in this case the farmers, for
le operating with the governn
r The opinion ruled the program
ct not voluntary. /.
&c A dissenting opinion was 81
by Justices Harlan +. Stone,
-" jamin N. Cardozo and Louis