Show NEW PlAN Of fARM REliEf IS PROPOSED Bill Is Introduced in Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate Providing for Federal Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural Export Corporation W WASHINGTON Jan Tan 16 C Con gress gres faced with the task Con 16 of evolving evolving ing a method of aiding the farms received today another proposal to add to the list already in hand when the McNary McNary-Haugen bill biU proposing proposing proposing pro pro- posing a federal agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural export corporation was Introduced Introduced in In- In in m the senate and house house- I The measure was referred to the agricultural committee committee- of the two houses which already are busy with hearings on various arious farm re relief relief re- re lief measures The purpose of the act is to maintain prices of farm products of ot which there is an ex exportable exportable exportable ex- ex portable surplus at the level of prewar prewar pre pre- war prices from 1905 to 1914 as de determined de- de by the secretaries of of agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag- ag and labor Coincident to the deliberations of congressional committees the the- theNa National National Na Na- Granges Grange's committee on marketing marketing mar mar- and production methods to develop an ad agricultural program I which will marketing and production by the initiative ability i and cooperation of the farmers I themselves without a great deal of i overhead machinery or regulative government control Before the senate committee to today today to- to day the Sinclair Norris-Sinclair bill biU creating a federal marketing agency for grain gram was indorsed b by representatives representatives tives of the Farmers National council council coun coun- cil and the Nonpartisan league SUGAR RATE HEARING PROCEEDS W WASHINGTON Jan Tan 16 The The Therow row In the tariff commission over the competency of Commissioner Glassie to participate In the sugar rate inquiry having subsided at t least temporarily the commission proceeded today with Its hearings An outline of the complicated questions questions- on n which it seeks light was made public by the commission which Included many inquiries on cost of production transportation capital investment and similar sub The views of native Cuban sugar growers were laid before the com com- m. m IOli by Perez com commercial mercial mercI att che of the Cuban embassy embassy embassy em em- bassy who wh presented a brief for the sugar manufacturers and cane growers' growers association of Cuba He asked that the commission in as ascertaining ascertaining ascertaining as- as production costs consider consid consid- er or all United States territory in including including in- in eluding ho he Philippine Islands as a unit In this event Cuban costs would ba be accepted as another unit and the basis for comparison reached Senor Perez also suggested that the commission use the production year rear of 23 1922 as the basis for I computing costs and urged that In Invested Invested In- In vested caT capital ital and transportation and marketing costs be bo not considered considered considered consid consid- ered in the computation of costs of production |