The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
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F.U.O.T.A..,
1t Missed No Bets.
The House Haggled.
Farmer or Army?
Warning Solomon!
FSA Survives.
FSA Survives.

FSA Survives.
On Monday June 81, the conference
committee on the Agricultural appro-
priation bill made it's report to the
house. The report was signed by the
seven senators and the seven house
adjust the vast difference between the
bill the house-under the monitory
eye of Ed O'NeaPs farm bloc-had
passed and the one the senate re-
turned, like the man with the seven
devils clothed and in his right mind y
The senate did not receive the report
that day because it was not in ses-
sion-but it will later. The report
shows that instead of 116 amendments
i. reported by Chairman Russell =
there actually were 1884, Which would
indicate that the senate was missing
no bets when it when over that house
bill for alterations and repairs.
The report, made by the conference
committee, was-as it had to be, if
the congress was not to spend months
on the bill--a compromise The law
of compensation operated on high So
the farmer got $500 million for soil
conservation when the house would
only let him have $500 million but
eliminates A.C.P. payments; while the
farm bloc scored on knocking out in
centive payments, which if granted
would have induced farmers to ven
ture out of the groove and try rails
| ing soybeans hemp and risky crops
| like flax. That's a loss not merely
to the farmer but to the country
which urgently needs crops of that
sort for war industries That's a
sample of the give and take" that
marked the bargaining in the con-
ference committee the huckstering
and haggling that is forced upon con-
gress by corporation farming and
landlordism at a time when the very
food for the people of this nation
and its allies is in danger There is
no excuse for that sort of procedure,
unless the blind selfishness and greed
for power of the elements behind the
farm bloc can be called an excuse.
Getting on statistical basis, of the
134 amendments, the committee man.
aged to get together on 81 and failed
to get together on %. The remain
ing SIS were minor matters = typo
graphical errors, ALLEGATION of sections
and numbering and even here there
dico ,n1,te
agreement was had, the house receded
in most cases, but often with a quail
flying clause, indicating the reluct-
ance Messrs. Cannon, Dirksen and
Lamberton felt in yielding even in
small matters. 1t is hard to believe
that men in the public position they
hold could stoop to the pettiness they
exhibited in trying to snatch from the
farmer every nickel possible. Yet on
the Saturday previous they voted II
billion dollars for the Army without
a grunt or gripei Of the two-the
farmer or the army-which can be
said to be the more essential for the
of this nation?
Among the 2S amendments in dis
agreement, one had to do with an in
crease of $255,000 for cooperative ex-
tension work; another increased by
S63,708 for experiment stations and
third approved $5O,OOO,OOO to provide
lunches for school children. In each
case the house members of the confer
ence committee moved that the house
agree but with reservations. These
we're typical of 81 warn you, Solomoni"
If "Abe's Irish Rose" broadcast They
that they would not here
lfter approve these items unless
law was enacted to
authorize them. This is the old rule
hat an appropriation bill cannot carry
egislation = and congress has been
gnoring the rule for years and years!
Somehow farm crop insurance was
aved, but the house insists that 49,
100000 is enough while the senate
ticks for $7,81S,74S. So were parity
ayments, but at the lower figure of
ITO ,2S1,00O. The fight on FSA was
lost bitter, but the farm bloc could
OF abolish it-as it tried to do The
ouse put the FSA as to loan and
enant activities, under the War Food
and trimmed the appro-
ration from $160,000,000 to about
ne hundred million. How the senate
ill take that remains to be seen.
he house voted that as compro-
ise-with ITSELF But the senate
as not yet voted on it and may have
ome purple remarks to make when
sees the handiwork of the foes of
le family-type farmer, who, more
ian any other group needs the help
his government to get going and
crease production of corn, of hogs.
poultry and of livestock if we are
eat with any sort of regularity
is winter and next spring. That's
the big farmer hasn't been
lie to do.
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