Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-14
Anti-Lynching Bill.

40 NStiAh AtiSo Ny N1oJOAAsy aSo0NA
Barley
Anti-Lynching Bill.
When Congress adjourned, the SEN
ate had entered an agreement and
special order that the anti-lynching
bill should be considered Immediately
after the farm bill had been disposed
of, in the next session. This order
still stands. When it was made, the
expectation was that the farm bill
would be the first taken up in the
Senate Since no farm bill is ready
and it may be weeks before it is
ready-Senator Barley and others
are intent upon going ahead with
the other measures on the program
until the Agricultural Committee is
ready to report. Whether the sup
porters of the anti-lynching bill, which
has been reported to the Senate, will
acquiesce gracefully or make a fight
to have their bill considered without
further delay remains to be seen.
Intent upon a balanced budget in
the fiscal year 1889, the President will
eye the new farm bill carefully, par
ticularly if it calls for additional gov
ernmental expenditures as it is ex-
pected to do. He has said to the
chairman of the agricultural commit
tees that if legislation is enacted
causing increased expenditures, new
revenues must also be provided. This
has caused revival of talk of the
old processing taxes to meet farm
benefit payments. Increased bene-
fits will have to be taken care of
either through such taxes or through
= direct appropriation of public funds.
Another stumbling block in the way
OF prompt consideration of farm leg
islation is found in a difference of
opinion whether crop control shall be
compulsory or voluntary-as in the
past. There Is much distaSte among
some of the members for compulsory
crop control. Senator Capper of
Kansas, for example, declared his op-
position yesterday. But whether the
crop control is compulsory or volun-
tary, the plan is to make benefit pay
ments for curtailment of crops, either
directly or through the so-called soil
conservation program, now in effect,
or both.
Favors Referendum.
Senator Capper declared himself in
favor of provision carried in the
Pope-McGill farm bill of last session.
regarded as more or less the admins
tration bill, which would submit to
the farmers any crop-control plan for
referendum vote. A two-thirds vote
of the farmers would be required to
adopt the plan.
When Chairman Mary Norton of
the House Labor Committee has had
an opportunity to confer with the
House leaders, the procedure for
bringing the wages and hours bill be-
fore the House will be determined.
Mrs. Norton has in mind certain
amendments to the pending bill,
among them placing the administra-
tion OF the law in the Department of
Labor instead of the proposed board
OF rve members. In the Senate there
is sentiment in favor of considering
anew, and as a new bill, the wages
ana hours measure if it is vitallv
amended by the House, rather than
merely leaving the bill to a confer
ence committee of the two houses to
whip into shape.
Members of Congress have been
slow in returning to Washington for
the opening of the special session,
Those who are here, however. are
particularly insistent that something
be done without delay to encourage
business and to relieve business, as far
as possible, of burdensome taxation.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi.