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Show FARMERS LACK M AGREEMENT i i SPEAKER FOR FARM LOAN ASSO- j CIATION CRITICIZES COOLIDGE ; VETO OF BILL j Emphasizes Changes Made on Federal i Board Defects in Bill Are Noted j Washington Lack of agreement j among those who purport to speak for j the farmers is illustrated once more in a formal announcement given out by Carl Vrooman of Bloomington, 111., former assistant secretary of agriculture agricul-ture in the Wilson administration and himself as president of the National Association of :arm Loan Borrowers, and says that as such he represents "several thousand farmers." In that capacity he voices the family critcism of President Coolidge for vetoing the McNary-Haugen bill, but lays most emphasis on some recent changes in the federal farm loan. board. The charges began with the resignations resig-nations of some members of the board, which Mr. Vrooman speaks of as their "expulsion" by President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon. In place of the former members, President Coolidge appointed Eugene Meyer, Jr., who was one of the ablest bankers in New York until he retired in order to come to Washington to serve in the Wilson administration during the war. After the war he continued as chairman of the government's war finance corporation, corpor-ation, which loaned over a billion dollars dol-lars of government money in the south and west as a means of ameliorating the farm depression of 1925. |