Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-21 | Page 2 | Drive for Sugar Bill Advances

DRIVE FOR SUGAR BILL ADVANCES WASHINGTON. July 21 UPl A congressional drivs for new sugar legislation at this session gained momentum in the senate today with an announcement by Senator Johnson John-son D., Colo. that the new majority major-ity leader. Berkley of Kentucky, had proposed "sympathetic consideration" consid-eration" of the O'Mahoney-Adams ; bill. . Johnson, one of the group oreen"-ators oreen"-ators seeking new domestic sugar quotas, distributed a statement to newspaper men shortly after the election of Barkley to the Democratic Demo-cratic lesdership. Meanwhile house members of the congressional sugar bloc joined In an effort to bring early consideration considera-tion of the O'Mahoney-Adams measure.