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Show FARM BILL WINS COMMITTEE OKEH WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (VP) The agriculture committee today reported re-ported favorably tha administration's administra-tion's extensive farm bill to the senate," thus opening the avenue to legislative progress which has been held in check by filibustering tactics tac-tics during the first week of the special session. Senate Majority Leader AlbenW, BarkTey D.. Ky. said-fha'TTie" hoped to obtain final action on the bill this week. House Majority trailer ,Sam Ray burn P.. Texas) Maid that if the bill is ready for Introduction In-troduction tonight debate probably would begin Wednesday and if it is introduced tomorrow the house could start on it Friday. Income Stabilised The farm bill provides for stabilization sta-bilization of farm income and checks against crop scarcities. Barkley estimated that it would cost less than the $."-00,000,000 in soil conservation funds and $125.-000.000 $125.-000.000 from customs receipts already al-ready available. Other estimates place the cost as high as $700,000,-000. $700,000,-000. The favorable report on the farm bill followed a conference of four senate and house leaders with President Pres-ident Roosevelt in his bedroom, uvhir t f nnvalrmring frnm a, slight illness. Barkley, one of the conferees, reported that the president presi-dent discussed the whole legislative legisla-tive situation and seemed fairly well satisfied. They promised the president that they would hasten his program as much as possible. Filibuster to End The filibustering by southern senators sen-ators seeking to kill the ant i lynching lynch-ing bill was expected to end today. The farm bill replaces the anti-lynching anti-lynching bill on the calendar tomorrow. tomor-row. The scene then shifts to conflict con-flict over farm and labor measures, the outcome of which may indicate whether the Insurgent drive for immediate im-mediate business aid will hamper the president's four point legislative program. Two developments today had a bearing on the rising congressional demand for "relief to business." Treasury figures as of November 19, with the fiscal year almost half over, showed the budget now out of line by $723,366,339.- The president's deficit expectation of a month ago was for a limit of J695.-; J695.-; 000.000. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported that employment In private industry declined by S0,- 000 during October. Burden Attacked Senator Robert J. Buckley (D.. i Ohio) introduced amendments to the undistributed profits tax law 1 designed to ease the burden on smaller corporations and eliminate what he said were restrictions on business expansion. One amendment amend-ment would be for a flat exemption for all corporations of net profit up to $50,000. Chairman Louis Ludlow (!.. Ind.) called the house appropriations subcommittee sub-committee into session for hearings 'on the treasury-postoffice supply bill for the 1939 fiscal year. He promised every effort to obtain economy. Speaker William B. Bankhead D.. Ala.) said that administration proposals pro-posals for regional planning, one of the president's four-point proposals pro-posals for ths special session, do not include immediate creation of ! seven regional authorities. Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell (R.. N. Y.) demanded end of the administration's "Yankee trading" program, but his remarks brought i only a storm of Democratic attacks at-tacks on Republican "prohibitive tariff" policies. Snell said that the !best thing congress could do would be to repeal the reciprocal trade act. |