Evening star., 1942-07-14
.Conferees Settle
All Farm Issues
But Grain Sales
House Unit Demands
lO09o Corn Pority;
Senate Wants $3.50
3, the Associated Press.

3, the Associated Press.
Senate and House conferees
patched up their differences on
all but one issue in the $3.50, ,000,-
900 Agriculture Department ap-
preparation bill today and agreed
to submit to both houses the dis
puted amendment authorizing
the Government to sell up to
125, 100000 bushels of wheat for
livestock feed at about 80 cents
a bushel.
Senator McNary of Oregon, mi
nority leader, said 1t was his under
standing House conferees also would
submit to their body proposal that
the sale of Government-held wheat
be permitted at the full parity price
for corn, which is about 81 cents
a bushel.
If this provision Is accepted by
the House, Senator McNary said
he had no doubt that it would be
opposed strenuously in the Senate,
which has held out for the 83-cent
price. or IS per cent of corn parity.
parity Is price calculated to
give the farmer return for his
crops equivalent in purchasing
power to that he received in
past period, usually 1909-1914)
Chief Difference Remains.
The conferees thus left up in the
air the chief controversial point In
tba hill n reotfo,, Droc;dopt Doora
welt has insisted must be retained
in order to make sufficient feed
available at low price to encour-
age production of meat and dairy
products for military and civilian
uses.
Earlier the House Agriculture Com
mittee approved Senate bill pro-
viding for loans up to 100 per cent
Of parity on the 1912 corn, wheat,
cotton, rice, tobacco and peanut
| crops.
The measure, the committee said,
would assure cooperating farmers
of Government loans amounting to
the full parity value of their crops
Even though the crop was selling
at price below parity, the borrow
ing farmer would not be the loser,
since he could at any time allow
the Commodity Credit Corp to fore
close without his making up the
difference between the market value
of the crop and the amount Of the
loan he received.
End of Deadlock Seen.
Chairman Fulmer, previous to the
conference finding, expressed belief
the legislation would put an end to
the deadlock s4between the Senate
and the House over whether to per-
init sales OF Government-controlled
grain surpluses at subparity prices.
1t wouldn't make any difference
at what price the Government dis
posed of the surplus, Mr.. Fulmer
said, because the farmer would get
parity through his loan.
The House figure of 81 cents for
corn represtneed a yielding OF
ground, since they had held out
previously for no sales below wheat
parity-about S1.34 bushel.
Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican, of Illinois, a House conferee,
further reported the conferees
agreed to sale of other Government
grain at the subparity figure If 1t
had deteriorated and was sold for
manufacture of alcohol.
Items in Agreement.
Other matters agreed upon, Mr..
Dirksen said, were:
Salaries and expenses of the
farm tenant administration, $685.
600 (The Senate had sought $2,-
900, 900 and the House $3.50 0OO).
Farm tenant loans, $32, 500 900 (The
Senate had sought $40,000, 900 and
the House $25 1000 000).
Rehabilitation loans for services
and assistance" $37,500,O00. (The
Senate sought $50,319,557 and the
House $25,3l9,557.)
Regular loans, $97 100000. (The
Senate sought s125 ,0O0,O and the
House s70,000,000)
Agriculture conservation pay.
ments should be taken into ac-
count and added to the farmers
market return in determining tho
amount of parity payments.