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Show IuMfMh bilijmes -EE CLAUSES OF EQUALIZATION STANDS FIRE, AS DO ALL CONTROVERTED PHRASES ansan Charges Farm Organizations Conduct Lobby; Cummins Talks; Fee To Be Authorized Immediately Immed-iately Washington. House consideration Df the Haugen farm relief bill for amendment neared completion with Ihe most controverted sections approved, ap-proved, including the provision for an squalization fee on the sales of basic C10PS. Without a record vote, the house rejected re-jected a motion by Representative Kewton, Republican, Minnesota, to strike out the clause authorizing the squalization fee to raise funds for stabilizing prices during seasons of surplus. It agreed, however, to an amendment amend-ment by Representative Jones, Democrat, Demo-crat, Texas, to require the proposed federal farm board to advertise for Corty days its intention .to levy the fee, which could not be assessed if a. majority of the farm organizations apposed it. The fee would be authorized author-ized immediately on wheat, corn, cat-Lie, cat-Lie, hogs and butter, and after two years could be placed on cotton. During debate Representative Tin-cher, Tin-cher, Republican, Kansas, author of ;he Tincher credit bill, pending with ;he Haugen and the Curtis-Aswell sommodity marketing proposals hurl-Dd hurl-Dd charges of "vicious lobbying" at lelegatcs of farm organizations supporting sup-porting the Haugen bill. He said aiembers of congress were being jombarded by telegrams "ordered" by ;he "lobby" in Washington. The Kansas member added that the recent amendments to the bill agreed to by Chairman Haugen of the agriculture agricul-ture committee had been drawn up at i meeting to which he (Tincher) was not invited, although Frank W. Murphy Mur-phy and George N. Peek, representing farm organizations in the corn belt, tveer present. "It is strange," asserted Mr. Tincher, Tin-cher, who is a member of the agriculture agricul-ture committee, "that this action was lot taken by the committee, but instead in-stead by lobbyists." Representative McLaughlin, Republican, Repub-lican, Nebraska, defended Murphy, as n-ell as Chester H. Gray of the Ameri- can Farm Bureau federation, from Mr. Tincher's charges of unfair lobbying. |
