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Show MILLIONS FOR FARMERS : BREED IN BILL Senator Hitchcock Drafts Measure for Financial Relief Re-lief of Agriculture Washington. Dec. s. Immediate j ; loans of sco.ooo.ooo from govern man! j funds to aid farmers In the face of falling prices of their products Is proposed pro-posed by Senator Hitchcock, D?mo-crat, D?mo-crat, Nebraska. In a bill druwu lOdsJM nfter a conference with Governor Har- ding of ih federal reserve board. Senator Sen-ator HltChCDCk plans to present the I I measure vvh.-n congress meets next I ; week. , WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-- Agricul-j tural committees of the senate und houao will meet In Joint session thla' aftTiioon to consider possible relief measures for the agricultural sltun-j sltun-j tlon. The meeting is in response toi an Invitation from the senate members Revival of the war flnancv corpor- i atlon. furthrS" extension of credits to farmers, placing a tariff on wheat1 imports, utilization of funds fn hands ! of alien property custodian a- i be ' sis of credits to Germany and sub- scrlptlon by congress to .SI per cent (of stock In companies formed for ex-1 I port business under the Kdge law. 'are some .f (he noa-oii. . wlmh will I b conalderad. Amendment of the federal farm loan' act to permit short time loans on cat-! tie and agricultural products also was! to be discussed. Resumption of trade relations with Russia, It was said, alao might be sug- gested |