Show MANY CHANGES IN F RM Dill BILL PROPONENTS OF McNARY BILL BILE HOPE TO WIN VICTORY OY RY OYONE ONE VOTE Fight Aids Aid Abandon Fight For Final Ballot When Southern Bloc Develops Amendment Would Spoil The Bill BUI On Washington On the verge vere ot or a n Tote Yote on the McNary farm bill the senate senate sen ate adjourned late Tuesday with the measure swaying In the balance each side tide admitting that one or two votes might decide the Issue Managers of the Ute proposal believed they had made Inroads into the ranks ranke of the opposition during the day by loading It down with amendments In Inan Inan inan an effort to appease opponents They laid said the bill would be he passed by a one one- vote Tote margin while the opposition 1 1 spokesmen predicted t it t would be de do by two votes For a time It appeared that the measure measure mea sure ure would be forced to a n. final vote ote but those in charge of or it abandoned the attempt v when hen Southern senators threatened to bolt the bill If an amend ment offered by Senator McNary R He- He publican Oregon sponsor of the proposal pro was adopted It provided that not more than out of the revolving funds should be used In marketing cotton The southerners claimed that the amendment would spoil the effectiveness effective effective- ness of the bill so far tar as cotton was concerned and the debate got so heated that the Oregon senator withdrew withdrew with with- drew It with the explanation that he probably would it Wednesday in modified form The senate then passed on to an amendment by Senator Harris Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat Georgia proposing to give the farm commodities in the bill a 50 percent per pur cent rail and ship pi f rate for the export trade After some discussion ills dis consideration went over until Wednesday at the request of ot Senator Norris Republican Nebraska I Before Defore the senate called it a day however it had reduced the appropriation tion for the revolving fund rund from to eliminated cattle cat tle lie entirely from the measure and made the tiro equalization fee operative a against corn immediately instead of ot in three years Other amendments approved defined swine processing as slaughter by purchaser purchaser pur chaser for market which would permit per mit a farmer to slaughter his own hogs hogsand hogsand hogsand and sell the meat without paying the tho fee and provided that the equalization fee could not be put into operation on any crop except by permission of the members of the proposed farm board representing land bank hank districts producing producing pro pro- more than 50 GO per cent of the crop as figured on the basis of the thelast thelast last previous pre census |