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Show FAIR PRICE FIXED FIR FMHCROPS McNary To Insist On Inclusion of All Crops. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) Chairman McNary of the senate agriculture committee com-mittee today promised to support sup-port the domestic allotment plan passed by the house, if the measure is amended to include all crops. McNary has called a meeting of his committee for Monday to consider con-sider the bill. He said he did not expect to hold hearings and hoped to be able to get quick committee action. McNary said he believed a favorable favor-able report would be obtained if Hie (bill were simplified in some respects. re-spects. Favorable Action Seen "I should guess," McNary said, "that with ' some simplification of language and description of fail-exchange fail-exchange values and the probable inclusion of all agricultural commodities, com-modities, subject to the decision of the department of agriculture with respect to which commodities the bill shall operate on, it would be reported out favorably. ."I am going to support it if we can simplify it, make it practicable and bring it within the constitution, constitu-tion, because in tlfeory the quickest quick-est economic recovery trie country could make would be through increasing in-creasing the purchasing power of agriculture." The domestic allotment program passed the house yesterday toy a vote of 231 to 151. The house designated the "fair" price which larmers would receive during a period beginning 30 days after enactment of th"e bill and up tc the start of the 1933-34 crop marketing year. These prices are: wheat, 75 cents a bushel;' hogs, 5 cents a pound ; cotton, 9 cents a, pound; rice, 75 cents' a bushel; peanuts, pea-nuts, 3 cents a pound; butter fat, 26 cents a pound. The amount of the bounty would be the difference between these prices and acu al market prices. The money would be collected by i the government in taxes from mil- lei s, packers, cotton spinners and I other processors h'andLing the products. |