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Show SENATETEMPERS CRACK Jj FIGHT Lynching Pictures on Wall Stir Row WASHINGTON, Nov. U (UP-Senat (UP-Senat tempera cracked today in a bitter outburst over th filibuster against th antilynchlng bilL Th outburst cam as Chairman Ellison D. Smith (D, 8. C), of th senat agriculture committee urged his committee to speed a farm bill to th floor as an aid to th filibuster. Senator Tom Connally (D., Texas), Tex-as), field marshal of th filibuster, opened th fourth dsy of debate with an attack on Senator Ben-j nett C. Clark D Mo.), for "using the senate aa a sewer." Connally protested Clark's action in having photographs of lynched negroes hung on th senate wall. Ths Missouri senator called the Texan to order for making personal per-sonal remarks concerning another senator. Senator Key Pittman D. Nev.),j presiding as president pro tempore, upheld Clark and brought Conal-ly's Conal-ly's wrath down on the "temporary "tempo-rary occupant of the chair." "They've been trying all week to boss the senate." th Texsn cried, shaking his finger at Pittman. "Well, they won't boss me." Th tilt ended with th lynching lynch-ing photographs still on the walL Meanwhile, th subcommittee af th house ways and means committee com-mittee reported progress today tn its plan to grant tax relief to businsss without seriously impairing the flow of revenue to the treasury. Th hous Ways and means subcommittee sub-committee proposed an increase of complete exemption from th undistributed un-distributed profit tax to include corporations with yearly earnings above 13000; an increas of th normal nor-mal corporation tax rates, and grant of , three-year exemptions from the undistributed profits tax of corporations corpo-rations emerging from bankruptcy and from reorganisation. Chairman Ellison D. Smith D., S. C.) of the senate, agriculture committee ordered confidential ropy of the much-amended farm bill printed in order to expedite a tCatlflM n P,K, Tw,J . (Coluaui Twe Tempers Crack in Row on Lynch Photos tee, which asked the war department depart-ment and budget bureau to produce an army engineers' report requestsd last summer on the administration regional planning bill The committee com-mittee la preparing to open hearings hear-ings oa the bill next Tuesday. (Continued from Pago One) report to the sensts. "We'll go through the Hat bf amendments and accept or reject them and ws will stsy here until Jam. Sunday If necessary," Smith said. The full committee will meet for the showdown vote tomorrow. The committee rejected processing taxes for wheat and approved Inclusion in the farm bill of marketing quotas and penalty taxes for corn. The wheat processing levy, designed to raise 1100.000.000 toward financing permanent farm aid, was rejected 16 to g and the marketing quotas for corn was accepted IS to . Today's action was In line with Secretary of Agriculture Wsllacc's plan. Rejection of the wheat processing pro-cessing taxes was contrary to ths sdministration plan. A F L. President William Green's I sttitude on the pending wages-hours bill Is sxpected to be known by Tuesday. John L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO, today wrote the house labor committee chairman urging enactment of the bill despite "its defects." Representative Arthur D. Healey D Mass), leader of ths houss bloc seeking passage of the wage-hour legislation, called a meeting of his group for Tuesday. That day has been set as ths "sero hour" for the houss rules committee to release the administrstion bill it has bottled bot-tled up since the last session. For ths fourth consecutive day President Roosevelt, recuperating from an infected tooth that was extracted ex-tracted and an intestinal upset, canceled can-celed all engagements. Another step toward fulfillment of ths president's outline of work for the special session was taken by the rivers and harbors commit- |