Show D DOUBT IS CAST CASI ON N ANY fARM RELIEF Bill Shaping but Adjournment Adjourn Adjourn- ment May Come Before Reaches White House WASHINGTON March larch 13 AP Doubt and anxiety have begun to appear In the ranks of the farm representatives who a fortnight ago confidently marched marched on on Washington Washing Washing- ton demanding demanding relief legislation After Atter long long long- labor a relief bill is taking t form rm In the house agriculture agriculture ture tur committee but it is a long haul and a rocky road from the committee room to the presidents president's desk at the White House House And ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration leaders apparently are counting on an adjournment of oC congress some time in May Some committee members still predict that a bill will be l laid id be- be pre Mr l Coolidge tor for his signature before congress goes home but others qualify their predictions The farm tarm leaders themselves have by no means abandoned hope al although although although al- al though they manifestly are worried over ovel the difficulties and delays that beset them TOLD TO CONFER At the the very beginning of ot their invasion of the capitol the t farm nn delegations were taken back by the unexpected manner of ot their recep recep- tion They were welcomed on every hand but tout were told t to get gei together around a table and decide just wh what t it was they wanted Then the trouble began The more they consulted with one another and with members of the house committee the more the whole project became obscured in a cloud of argument and find a tangle of ot tech tech- Undeniable progress has been made ade but the views of r many many witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses yet are to be heard Then after a bill has been perfected i A Awill will have to take its chances in the usual legislative jam that precedes the close of ot a session There still are important appropriation bills bills' pending and the senate in engulfed with a multiplicity of measures ranging from contested to foreign debt settlements RESUME MONDAY The agriculture committee was not In session n toda today but on Mot Mon da day it will resume e its h hearings l' l ng's with the farm delegation from eleven middle western states presenting presenting pre pre- for tor the first time a complete complete complete com com- draft dlatt of its plan for federal insurance of surplus crops b by means of an equalization fee tee Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides the members of this delegation delegation delegation tion Chairman Haugen has a list of ot more than a score of prospective witnesses who want yant to be heard for or against this or 01 other pending bills Mis They rhey rel represent resent organizations organizations organizations organizations' Individual inter Interests or connected connected connected con con- wit with agriculture t Jr Haugen said today t the com com- could could not refuse c o hear anyone anone wh J cared tJ Wo to come to to tom lashing to discuss relief l leg legis' legis s lat lation latton on Under present plans the testimony will ill be taken on ever every everyone everyone one of ot two dozen pending relief measures if anyone wants wants' to be heard Members predict that at least a a.- a. month will be required to dispose of all the bills Some sa say it will willbe willbe be six weeks or 01 longer and that will only mark malk the beginning of ot the thelong thelong thelong long process of or enacting a relief bill into law I |