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Show TESS - TINCHES BILLJEFEATED SENATE VOTES DOWN MEASURE APPROVED BY COOLIDGE; RESULT 26 TO 54 House Cooperative Marketing Bill Enacted as Members Clash Hotly Would Authorize 1 $225,000. Washington After rejecting the Fess farm credits bill, which had been indorsed by President Coolidge, by a vote of 26 to 54, the senate then passed the house cooperative marketing measure. meas-ure. The proposal approved, which also was sponsored by the administration, would auhtorize a $225,000 appropriation appropria-tion for the creation of a cooperative marketing division in the agriculture department. The Fess proposal, offered by the Ohio senator as a rider to the cooperative cooper-ative marketing measure, would have authorized in appropriation of $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 for loans to farmers' cooperatives. coopera-tives. It was snowed under by a vote of 54 to 26. Its defeat was more crushing than that administered in the senate last week to the McNary equalization fee bill, which was opposed by the administration, ad-ministration, and was rejected by a six-vote margin. Adoption by the senate of an amendment amend-ment eliminating naval stores from the measure means that the cooperative cooper-ative marketing bill must go to conference con-ference can be adjusted and the measure meas-ure sent to the president probably the only farm relief measure to reach the White House during this session, which is nearing a close. The vote on the cooperative marketing bill came after a ten hours' continuous session, during which a wide range of proposals, propos-als, to change tariff of the railroad rates for the benefit of the farmer and to aid him by other methods, had been thrown in the discard. |
