Evening star., 1940-11-28
Logan Waller Act
Is Called Threat
To Farm Program
Would EnobIe One Person
To Tie 1t Up for Year,
Official Feurs
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Undismayed by talk that presi-
Dental veto was certain, advocates
of the controversial Logan-Walter
bill pressed today for House accept
ance of subsequent Senate amend
ments-a step which would send
the measure straight to President
Roosevelt.
AS the drive for quick House ac-
ton started, Agriculture Department
officials asserted that if the bill be-
came law administration of Federal
crop-control programs would be
made "burdensome if not impossi-
ble."
In waving aside the possibility Of
veto--and q veto was predicted by
Democratic Leader Barkley Of the
Senate-proponents Of the measure
took the optimistic view that any
thing might happen in the closing
weeks of long session. Privately
trif1e surprised, they had watched
their legislation squeak through the
Senate Tuesday, 27 to Is, so they
believed there was always chance
of upsetting a veto.
The bill provides uniform stand
ards of procedure for many quasi
judicial Federal agencies and broad
ems the basis for appeals from their
decisions.
Frivolous Appeals Feared.
Although the bill was amended by
the Senate to limit such appeals to
parties having a substantial interest
in the case at point, opponents as
serted it would permit frivolous ap-
peals which might paralyze the work
of important agencies Of Govern
ment.
Farm officials said today that un-
der the Interpretation of the bill
the department would be required
to hold public hearings on scores Of
regulations issued under the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act Of 1888 and
the Soil Conservation and Domestic
Allotment Act.
Under the Logan-Walter bill"
said Mastin G. White, Agriculture
Department solicitor, ut is conceiv-
able that one farmer who was dis
satisfied with any of these regula-
tions could tie up whole crop
program and render it imperative
during the season for which it was
drawn"
It might be necessary, he said, for
the department to hold hearings in
all parts of the country on proposed
regulations, so that the farmers af-
fected would have opportunity to be
heard.
This" Mr.. White said, would be
administratively burdensome to the
highest degree"
Many Regulations Issued.
Under the various crop control
laws, the Department of Agriculture
operates programs calling for acre
age reductions in such major crops
as cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, rice,
potatoes, peanuts and others. Many
regulations have been issued estab-
fishing planting allotments for in
dividual farmers and setting up soil
conservation practices which farm
ers must follow to obtain a share
in benefit payments, which this year
total SITS ZOO, 900.
The solicitor pointed out that In
dealing with agricultural problems
the department had to take into
consideration the interests of g.
100000 farms, hardly two of which
were subject to identical conditions.
Care must be taken, he said, that
regulations adequately protect in
terests of each of the tenure groups
Landlords, tenants. sharecroppers
and laborers.
with such a large number of
independent operating units and
such a wide diversity of conditions
it would be necessary to hold public
hearings (under the Logan-Walter
bilD in every county and possibly in
most communities if the hearings
are to furnish any aid at all in the
formulation of regulations and If all
interested parties are to have rea-
sonable opportunity to be heard"
he said.
Crop control regulations are now
determined after informal confer
ences with State farm leaders.