The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-03-29

Tor farmers continues To Be . live
one IN the Congress As ne predict
ed In these columns on several
previous occasions. the Senate
placed s7l20oo1 600 In the kEieul-
tural Appropriation Bill 20 guarsn-
tee the farmer rs per cent Of parity
payments on the basis Of agricultural
commodities for the yuar te4f. u
VIII BE- remembered that provision
&as made for these payments at the
last session OF Congress for this
year While there was never much
ioabt that the Senate would make
provision for these payments. g
nevertheless was not only .ratifying
but surprising that the vote On this
amendment In the Senate was 80
overwhelming
The hlii win come back 20 the
House OF the conferences report
This Is where the real battle vii
take place This. Of course. DUE. -
are pointed out on previous ooccas-
lons 20 the fact that the represent
sion Of the cities Is so much larger
In he House than In the SenRte
Very few Of the Representatives tn
the House from the great metre
ualitan centers concern themselTes
with the problems OF the farmer
IN fact. most Of the farming done
Ia the districts OF some of tsSSe rep
resentasives Is In the Sandow boxes
In the great apartment houses.
Organize Fee Fight
We have been IN conference with
the leaders Of the Agriculture Ap-
preparations committees during the
past week. trying TO organize for me
fight that Is to come. In a speech
which we made on the subject Of
parity payments In the Hosase Lass
week. ne gave notice that 3 eauctis
would be called In all probability by
a group Of US. at which time Il Is
hoped 20 have a large representa-
ton Of House members present 90
discuss wavs and mean to retain
tbs x1i2 000D0o appropriation In
this legislation when Il gets back 20
the House The necessity for or
ranizatson Is apparent when Il Is
EEaAE4fAAGAFA AAat Af NA&3 ~
ment provision W last years Axri-
cultural Appropriation Bill only
passed the House by the slim margin
OF five votes out OF over four hum
dred votes cast. We regard parity
payments as of the utmost import
anoe 70 agriculture and TO the eogn-
TN. For If the farmer cannot IN
10Y prosperity. certainly the rest Of
the country cannot
Hatch Act
one Of the hottest fights Of the
session developed over The proposal
IN the Senate that the Hatch Act be
nroadened. This act prohibits any
Federal employee. except policy
making officials from engaging in
politics and resulted from the
charges that the wpA was Used IN
several political campaigns = year
or - azo. The new bill would ex-
tend the act % cover not uuly Fed-
eral employees but state employees
Nho are paid partly from Fe3eral
funds such as employees on FEDERAL
aid highways and IN the CID age as
siztAnca and other Of the Soctal Sc
carity programs that are carried on
sagnfly by tire FEDERAL and state guv-
ernmentx A great deal O eppoSi-
ton % the bill developed ard the
senate consumed over txo weeks IN
en- often bitter debate over i A
number Of uullifytng amendments
we're introduced but al sefe de-
feated though usually b 6 very
small margin. The biIl has now
gone 70 the House. where another
fight looms
ID tournament or Congress
Il Is no secret that the AGmlas-
tratlon wants an early adjournment
+ o. tire Congress and most q Gan-
gress seems % be Agreeable I taoks
Ike nax that Congress III adaourn
about the Middle Of June TIE Re-
publican convention meets II PhiIa-
delnhla June 24th. an1 the Demo-
cratic convention meets Il Chicago
on July 18th Therefore nan9 df
re leaders Of both parties are
ANXIOUS Ter Congress . adjourn be-
fore tie meeting O. tie conventions
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