Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-09 | Page 1 | AAA Defended in High Court

AAA DEFENDED IN HIGH COURT Revenue Not Control Declared Aim WASHINGTON Dec 9 UP The RI-The The processing tax taxes taxes s heart of the A A AA A A were were e defended defend d as 83 for tor revenue and not for regulation in now new deal arguments today to a questioning supreme court Before a distinguished assemblage Solicitor or General Stanley Reed painstakingly reviewed the celebrated cele cele- bra ed Hoosac Mills case with the Roosevelt farm policy at issue I The opposition apposition which contends I Ithe the tax on processors to be regulatory regulatory regulatory regula regula- tory and hence unconstitutional waited quietly to be heard in the person of former Cormer Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania His Hb hands resting on the stand before him Reed accepted on behalf of the government the supreme court holding in the N R A case case case- namely that emergency conditions do not justify violation of the con con- He Hc contended however that extraordinary ex x- x conditions justified extraordinary remedies provided they came caine within constitutional bounds I He disclaimed viewing the A A AA A Aas as an law Jaw arising from the depression It should be borne in mind he said aid that since the sixty eighth congress the tho house and senate and the executive have havo been giving careful careful careful care care- ful and considerate attention to the problems of ot agricultural surplus The court minutes before had declined to reconsider its recent re refusal refusal refusal re- re to 10 pass pus on the contentions of ot the Washburn Crosby company a a Kansas milling concern that theA theA the A A. AAA A A overstepped constitutional limitations