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Show Borah Assails Curb on Crops in Farm Measure PAY-HOUR BILL BACKERS FIGHT REVISION PLAN Battle Lines Formed for Debate on Legislation WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (AP) Congress neared the end ol the third week of its special session ses-sion today without completing any part of President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's program. Debate on the farm bill continued con-tinued at a leisurely pace In both 'chambers, causing house leaders to abandon hope of a final vote there this weekend. Nor was the conclusion of talk by senators in sight. Senator Borah (R., Idaho) unleashed his oratory against the bill at the opening of the day's session. Assails Measure In a lengthy speech he said the measure would complete "bureaucratic "bureau-cratic control" over farmers and would entail "the reduction of crops at a time when there are millions of hungry and needy persons in the country." Backers of the wage-hour bill, a second item on the president's special spe-cial session program, began a new fight to savs the measure from revision. re-vision. Critics were plotting to modify or defeat it A house subcommittee, meanwhile, mean-while, considered a constitutional amendment or act of congress to permit federal taxing of $14,854,000,-000 $14,854,000,-000 of state and municipal securities securi-ties and state and local levies on $35,548,000,000 of federal Issues. Are Exempt At present state and local securities securi-ties are exempt from federal taxation taxa-tion and federal securities cannot be levied upon by the states and localities. lo-calities. In the off-the-floor discussions of the wage-hour bill one group disclosed' it would try to strike all geographical differentials from the measure, a goal which would intensify in-tensify the already heated north-south north-south conflict over the measure. As the battle lines formed, the American Federation of Labor's executive council met to draft new recommendations concerning labor standards legislation. Opposed Plan The federation recently opposed administration of the program by a proposed five-member independent indepen-dent board. The house labor committee com-mittee agreed to substitute a single administrator under the jurisdiction of the labor department. Many other changes already have been made in the bill since it passed the senate last summer. Because the senate will have to vote on all the house alterations. Speaker Bankhead and other leaders lead-ers were reluctant to estimate the bill's chances for getting to Presi- (Contlnued en Pa Two) (Column Flvtl BORAH ASSAILS CURB ON CROPS f Continue! from Pp On ) dent Roosevelt before the special seasion ends during Christmas week. It probably will come before be-fore the house on December 13. Would Net .Minimum Pay Both versions of the measure would .empower JtiboraLandiid& board to fix minimum wages as high as 40 cents an hour and a work week of 40 or more hours for" workera In interstate commerce. com-merce. Tha bills differ, however, on methods for eliminating child labor. la-bor. The senate approved language prohibiting shipment of products of child labor into states whose laws ban- child labor. The house bill would ban such products entirely en-tirely from interstate commerce. The house bill contains- two amendments proponed by the A. F. of L to protect collective bargaining bargain-ing agreements and the so-called "prevailing" wage. Even before completion of the petition, circulated after Republicans Republi-cans and southern Democrats on the rules committee had blocked the bill for months, charges were made in the house that "log-rolling" and undue preasure had been used Remove Obstacle Completion of the wage-hour petition pe-tition removed one of the greatest obstacles from the path of the administration's ad-ministration's legislative program. The first half of the special session, ses-sion, however, ended today without approval of any of the president's recommendations. Almost two weeks of senate debate de-bate had left the farm bill bogged down under prolonged speech-making. Scores of amendments, including in-cluding revisions proposed by Secretary Sec-retary Wallace, still were being discussed. dis-cussed. House leaders hoped to pass their farm bill by tomorrow night. But senate chieftains aaid that chamber cham-ber would require at least another jweek of argument, and critics forecast fore-cast the debate would last even longer. Friends of the administration contended that even should none of the president's measures reach the White House this month, the special session would have accomplished accom-plished his objective of getting the "spade work" out of the way. They expressed gratification, too, that the house leadership had been victorious in the fight over the wage-nour petition. pe-tition. Committees In both chambers were making rapid headway with hearings on the administration's housing bill. House leaders talked of getting the measure to the floor next week, between the farm bill and the wage-hour debate. Final action might be blocked in the senate, sen-ate, however, by the farm and anti-lynrhing anti-lynrhing bills! |