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Show HYDE COMES UNDER FIRE New Secretary of Agriculture Object of Demo Leader's Sarcasm WASHINGTON, ,-priI 29 (U.PJ President Hoover's new Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde, was brought under a brief fire in the senate today as both houses of congress entered their third week on the farm relief program. The senate resumed debate on the ad-ministratfan-debenture bill while the house decided that because the tariff bill will not be ready until next week, it would spend Wednesday, Wednes-day, Thursday and Friday on four minor farm relief measures. Hyde's part in the administration program was brought up in the senate debate when it developed the senate agriculture committee had not printed trie testimony ct two agriculture department experts favorable fav-orable to the debenture plan so strongly denounced by the president. presi-dent. Publication of the testimony was demanded by Senator Joseph T-Robins'on, T-Robins'on, Democratic floor leader, who said their opinions "would probably have more weight than the head of the department (Mr. Hyde) who has had very little experience ex-perience in agriculture1, but who has been an automobile dealer." The two experts, Epic Englund and O. C. Stone, were sent up to the committee by Mr- Hyde under ipecific orders from President Hoover a week before the president made known his opposition to the debenture plan. |