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Show - FARM RELIEF BILJJFFEIIED BIPARTISAN MEASURE BY CURTIS AND CRISP EEFORE ST. NATE AND HOUSE McNary-Haugen Bill Temporarily Put Aside; Future Hearings only to ; Views of Own Members i i i Washington A biparf.f,;: .arm relief re-lief bill, sponsored by Senator Curtis of Kansas, the Republican boor loader, and Representative Crisp, Democrat, of Georgia, was presented to congress in an effort to break the long deadlock on agricultural legislation. It was presented in the senate and house coincident with the resumption of consideration of farm legislation by the house agricultural committee, which voted to sidetrack discussion of the McNary-Haugen bill until Tuesday and to take up in the meantime the Aswell bill, a measure which omits the provision for an equalization fee on agricultural products with which to handle the surplus crop problem. Both Senator Curtis and Representative Represen-tative Crisp described their measure as designed to meet objections raised against pending proposals, it would provide for a federal farm board and an appropriation of ?"2Gt,000,'JU0. The duty of the board would lie; to insure "reasonable profit over cost of production" produc-tion" on farm commodities by declaring declar-ing nn emergency for any crop when one existed and permit ting cooperative's coopera-tive's to bv up the surplus and hold it. ' |