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Show TRADE PROGRAM MAY SQUEEZE BY Br LLOYD LEHRBAS WASHINGTON. Jan. 10 CT A furvey of the houM . wiyi and mean committee Indicated today a clow rot on tha bill extending tha reciprocal tradt program, with tha odda favoring a recommend-tion recommend-tion of approval. Tha commute, headed by Chairman Chair-man Doufhton (D.. N. C), will pen hearing! on the trade agreement agree-ment act tomorrow. Secretary Hull will be the first witness In support of the extension. Five L' decided An Informal poll of the IS Democratic Demo-cratic and 10 Republican members showed that the "sure" vote Is now 10 Democrats for the bill and the 10 Republicans against it. The i other five Democrats are still undecided. un-decided. Representative Disney (D, Ok la), one of the five, aaid that he "generally favored tha trade agreements program under the '' T'tlmtnt. hut Tppnssrl to any program In which excise taxes are treated as tariffs." Representative Boland (D.. Pa.) Is understood to be considering his position in the light of how tha reduced excise tax may affect the Pennsylvania oil and coal inriiia. tries. Hope for Support Proponents of the bill hope to win the support of Representatives West (D., Texas) and Robertson (D., Va.) because of tha collapse of negotiations for pacts with Argentina Ar-gentina and Uruguay. Robertson had opposed reducing tha tariff on turkeys Imported from Argentina, Argen-tina, while West had objected to firoposed duty reductions on Argen-ine Argen-ine livestock, turkeys and flaxseed. flax-seed. Representative Maloney (D., La.) . Is reported to be reviewing the ef- I feet of the 22 present agreements j on the Louisiana sugar industry before determining his position, but is generally considered favorable favora-ble to the pact |