The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-22
HOUSEPASSES
FARM AID BILL
Triple A Substitute Mea-
sure Now Goes To Con-
ference
BY JOHN r. BEAL
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. %. (UP)
The house late yesterday pass
ed the $500,000,00C New Deal
farm bill after tumultous debate
resulting in defeat of an amend
ment intended to protect the dairy
industry, and sent it to confer
ence with senate. The vote was
announced as 267 to 81.
The bill, an outgrowth of the
supreme court decision invalidat-
ing the. Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, is designed to con-
tinue federal crop control through
paying farmers to conserve their
soils. Some 25,000,000 to 3d.
100000 acres of farm land will
be removed from production for
restoration of its fertility.
The biggest fight of the new
program came when Rep. Gerald
]. Boileau, prog, Wis., offered
an amendment prohibiting pay
ment of benefits to any farmer
pasturing livestock or dairy cat
tie on land retired for soil con-
servation. His fight was based on
the dairy industry's fear that q
great increase in production will
result from use of the otherwise
idle land.
A similar bill was passed by the
senate last Saturday. 1t embod-
les a two year program for re-
firing farm land for soil improve
ment. Farmers who heed the sug-
gestions of Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wallace on the use
of their land will receive cash
benefits, as under the AAA, eX-
cept that there will be no written
contract with the government.
1t also provides permanent
program based on federal aid to
states which set up their own farm
production control plans. The
permanent program will take eff
feet as fast as states set up their
own control laws, and will entirely
replace the temporary program
Jan. l, 1888.
The house made necessary a
conference with tn esenate when
it amended it's own bill into con-
formity with the senate measure
in several points, and added new
amendments.
First of these was "consum'
ers' amendment" to keep the ratio
of farm and city income at the
1910-1914 level and to prevent
limitation of production below the
consumption average of the years
from 1920 to 1929. The senate
had rejected similar amendment
The house also accepted an
amendment by Rep. Malcolm l..
Tarver, D., Ca, permitting pay
ments to tenants and share-crIop,-
pers as we'll as to independent
farmers, and a policy amendmenC
by Rep. Martin Dies, D., Tex: dl-
recting the secretary OF agrlcul-
ture to protect the interests OF IhS
small producers.
Prominent in the final debate
was a big, white-haired RcPuoll-
can dirt farmer from North DaKo-
ia, Usher L. Burdick. Back IN
1904 Burdick was an all Amell-
can football player at Minnesota.
He is so absored in farming that
after he was elected to congress
he bought farm in nearby Mary
land, on which he works every
morning before the house con-
venes.
81 am opposed to this bill, ne
said, because you are surrender
ing the power over the entire pro-
gram to one man-the secretary
of agriculture. The rules lof
North Dakota will be the rules gL o.
the secretary of agriculture Inns Inns
bill is not the only way 10 ue"i
with the farm problem. ,+o
"For Gods sake" he shoatea ~
the members of the house "heie
is your independence!