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Show M r MUCH DEPENDS on m mm IF NEW FARM RELIEF BILL IS PASSED BY CONGRESS PROBLEM PROB-LEM WILL BE ENDED This May Also Decide Whether Low den Will Run Against Cool idge Washington Through two events it will become apparent the coming week whether a farm relief hill is to pass in this congress, arid also probably whether wheth-er there is to be opposition by ex-Governor Loxvden of Illinois to President Coolidge for the next Republican presidential pres-idential nomination. The house committee on agriculture agricul-ture on Friday of last week voted to hold hearings on proposals for farm relief. That was regular, but very unusual un-usual indeed was their decision that the hearings should last only four days, terminating Tuesday. That action ac-tion indicates a state of mind looking to quick and determined action, although al-though no one can fairly object to the brevity of the hearings, because last year the committee gave hearings lasting several weeks. More significant than this action of the committee on agriculture was the introduction into the two houses si-multaeously si-multaeously on Thursday of a farm' relief bill of a new kind and from a new source. The joint proposers ol the new bill are, in the senate, Curtis of Kansas, who is the official Republican Republi-can leader, and in the house, a Democrat, Demo-crat, Crisp of Georgia, of whom it can be said that no congressman has high er respect from both parties. |