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Show Much Strife Forecast Under New Farm Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. (AT) Senator King CD- L'UhV told congress it was wasting Urn with "futile discussions" and should direct attention toward modification of revenue laws which had a "stranglehold" en small business. WASHINGTON. Dec. 9 (AF) Senator Lee (D., Oltla.) told the senate today the pending frm bill would cause "more strife tnan in mi ruux n.ian. "We, will be splitting communl-ties communl-ties wia,eopen7Me shouted. "Uns farmer's hand will be raised against another. Why, I read of one farmer who said. 'We'll make them reduce their acreage or we'll' get out the eld night riders!'" He urged psyments to farmers on that share of their crops consumed In this country, as a substitute for acreage reduction. Ths Oklahoman, a former public spsaklng teacher, said the re.t notion no-tion under the "ver-normal granary" gran-ary" cotton section would force small cotton farmers to compete "with the Hottentots, the coolie, ths lowest type of labor In India." Rejeeta Proposal Before th aenat debate began, th house, with less than half it members present, voted down a pro-poeal pro-poeal to permit th agriculture secretary sec-retary to impoee marketing quota on corn when national supplies pile up to 2WW0O0OUO bushel. The un-recorded un-recorded Vote wa 78 to 9. Th house farm bill as it now stand would authorise Invoking th quotas when supplies reach 2.900,-000 2.900,-000 000 bushels. Th principle of th defeated amendment, proposed in the hous by Representative Lucas ID., Ill), was critioissd recently by Secretary Wallace on the ground It was too restrictlvs. Senate debate opened with a deo-laration deo-laration by Senator Copeland D N. Y.) that "peace between business and the administration" was far mors important than the pending ,farm bill. Instead of farm legislation. Cops-land Cops-land said, the senate should be considering con-sidering th present business depression. de-pression. Heuse and senate leaders, hopeful week, started maneuvering for prompt coneideration of the administration's ad-ministration's vast bousing program. In th senate this Involved the ticklish problsm of tsmporarily sidetracking the politically powerful power-ful campaign for Immediate enactment enact-ment of th antilynchlng bill. Senator Van Nuys (D., Ind.), coauthor co-author of th antilynchlng measur, said he would not object to delaying delay-ing debate for a day or two in order or-der to pass the housing bill. Opposition Expected There wa soms talk of setting a dsfinite date next session for a vote on the antilynchlng bill, but southern senators were expected to block that procedure. The wags-hour bill comes up automatically auto-matically in ths house next Monday, Mon-day, but leaders Intsnd to follow It 1 with the housing legislation, which Is deslgnsd to itlmulat residential construction. The house labor committee met this morning to consider proposed new alterations to ths wage-hour bill which some legislators said would jeopardise Its chances for passage at this session, i Akhough committed to a change giving jurisdiction ever the measure to a eingle administrator In the labor department instead of to an Independsnt board, the committee Democrat faced an internal battle over an accompanying proposal to place, broad powers ovsr wages and hours in the band of voluntary boarda. Under that lystem th administrator adminis-trator would be required to appoint a board to Investigate complaints from each Industry and to abide by the board's recommendations In fixing minimum wages and maximum maxi-mum hours. Repreeentatlve Ranupeck (D I Oa.), second ranking majority member mem-ber of the labor committee, criticised criti-cised the voluntary board proposal declaring it would "be going even further than the Invalidated N R A in delegating authority." I Raraspeck said If the proposal was adopted It would result in the . bill being sent back to th committee commit-tee for revision and thus prevent J It enactment at the special session. ! I Chairman Norton D N. J.I, of i the labor committee, explaining the proposal would "decentralise" au-, au-, thonty of the administrator, said j , it was deslgnsd to prevent him having hav-ing "too much power." |