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Show wsmm PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S inclusion inclu-sion of the international wheat agreement ratification In his message mes-sage to the special session of congress con-gress has started anew the bitter debate de-bate which marked consideration of this issue during the regular session. The President urged ratification by the senate to "guarantee American Ameri-can farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat at a fair price during each of the next five years." Although the limit for ratification of the wheat agreement expired July 1 of this year, the President asserted as-serted that he has good reason to believe that it still can be made effective If it is ratified promptly. Briefly, this agreement would slide wheat prices by yearly stages for the 185 million bushels bush-els earmarked annually for export ex-port to 33 nations from $1.50 to ?2 per bushel for 1948 to a mini-mam mini-mam of $1.10 in 1950. Canada and Australia would make similar agreements with the same nations, but two big exporters, Argentina Ar-gentina and Russia, have refused to ratify. The government would make up the difference between the export price and the current domestic price to TJ. S. growers. During the debate on the question at the regular session, ses-sion, Sen. William E. Jenner (Rep., Ind.) declared the pact would cost the government a billion dollars. Pressure groups in favor of the pact set some farmers and millers against the big farm organizations. American Farm Bureau federation, Farmers Union Grain Terminal association, as-sociation, National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, National Farmers Farm-ers union, National Grange and the Pacific Northwest Farmers council have taken a stand in favor of the international agreement. On the other hand, such organizations as Millers National federation. Flour Millers Export association, Cooperative Coopera-tive exchange, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, are bitterly opposed to the agreement. According to the opinion of observers here, the international wheat agreement is just one of several issues which may touch off sparks which might endanger endan-ger the bi-partisan policy established estab-lished by two major parties. Both Democrats and Republicans have said that "where foreign policy is concerned, politics ends at the water's edge." It Is pointed out, however, that Democrats already attacking the house of representatives' representa-tives' attempts to cut appropriations for the Marshall plan and the Republicans Re-publicans are pointing to Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam, charging the Democratic leadership with grave errors there before bi-partisan control con-trol was established. Another Instance is the President's urgency of the 65 million dollar appropriation ap-propriation for the United Nations headquarters building in New York. Scores of citizens organizations have taken a stand in favor of the appropriation ap-propriation but Republicans have lent a cool but respectful ear. Admission of more displaced persons per-sons is another issue over which debate de-bate in an intensely hostile political atmosphere might set off the spark to endanger the bi-partisan foreign policy. The President charged that the bill to admit 200,000 displaced persons in two years, passed at the regular session, was "anti-semitic and anti-Catholic" and he urged these restrictions be eliminated and that the bill call for 400,000 persons in four years. In the meantime, it appeared that the special session would be used as a sounding board for political speeches and a southern south-ern filibuster and that little if any of the President's program calling for action to bring down high prices, construction of low cost rental and for-sale housing, hous-ing, his civil rights program or his other recommendations would see passage. Sen. Robert A. Taft (Rep., Ohio), chairman of the GOP steering and policy committee, said in effect that he was willing to have the 80th congress rest on its record and have the people decide who was right at the polls in November. " Then there is considerable talk about gold and the gold standard bringing debate on this controversial issue back into the news. Congressman Congress-man Howard Buffet (Rep., Neb.) has introduced a bill to coin gold to fight inflation. Congressman Clarence J. Brown (Rep., Ohio) who was Senator Taft's presidential campaign manager, says restoration of the gold standard "probably would mean the end" of inflation." But President Truman told a press conference that the country hal been on the gold standard all th time since the dollar Is backed bj the world's largest stock of gold. |