Show HAUGEN FARM Bill SURVIVES FEE CLAUSES OF EQUALIZATION STANDS FIRE AS DO ALL PHRASES Kansan Charges Ch Farm Organizations Conduct Lobby Cummins T Talks Fee To Be Authorized ImmedIately Immediately lately Washington House House consideration of at the Haugen farm relief bill for tor amendment neared completion with the most sections approved ap ap- roved proved including the provision for an equalization fee on the sales of or basic crops Without a record vote the house rejected rejected rejected re re- re- re a motion by Representative Newton Newton Republican Minnesota to strike out the clause lause authorizing the equalization fee to raise funds for stabilizing prices during seasons of ot surplus It agree agreed however to an amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment by b Representative Jones Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat Texas to require the proposed federal farm board to advertise for forty Corly days dars its intention to levy the fee which could not be assesse assessed if it ifa ifa ita a majority of the farm organizations opposed it The Tho fee would be author immediately on wheat corn cattle cattle cattle cat cat- tle hogs and butter and after aHer two could be placed on cotton During debate Representative Tin- Tin cher Republican Kansas Kamms author of the credit bill pending with the Haugen and the tho Curtis-Aswell Curtis commodity marketing proposals hurled hurled hurled hurl hurl- I ed charges of vicious lobbying at delegates of fal farm organizations supporting supporting supporting sup sup- I porting the Uie Haugen bill He Ile said i members of at c congress were we were e being bombarded by telegrams ordered bythe bythe by bythe the lobby In Washington The Kansas member added that the recent amendments to the bill agreed to o by Chairman Haugen of the agriculture agriculture ture ure committee had been heen drawn rawn up at ata ata a meeting to which he lie was not Invited although Frank W. W Murphy Murphy Mur Mur- 1 phy and George N. N Pe Peek k representing I farm organizations In the corn belt weer present It is strange asserted Mr Ti Tin Tin- I cl cher er who is a member of the agriculture agriculture agriculture ture committee that this action acton was not taken by the committee but instead instead instead in in- stead by lobbyists Representative McLaughlin Republican Republican Republican lican Nebraska defended Murphy as aswell aswell aswell well as Chester H. H Gray of or the American Ameri Ameri- can Farm Bureau federation from Mr charges of unfair lobbying |