| Show MANY GH IN F RM Bill PROPONENTS OF McNARY BILl HOPE TO WIN VICTORY BY BYONE BYONE BYONE ONE VOTE Aids Abandon Fight For Final Ballot Ballo When Southern Bloc Develops Amendment Would Spoil The Bill On Washington On the verge of oC n a vote Tote on the McNary farm furm bill the senate senate sen Ben ate adjourned late Tuesday with the measure swa swaying In the balance each Bide side admitting that that one one or two votes otes j might decide the issue Managers of at tho the proposal believed they had made inroads Into the ranks I I of the opposition during the da day by loading it down with amendments in inan inan inan an effort to appease opponents They said the hill bill would be passed by a one one- vote margin while tho the opposition spokesmen predicted it would bo be defeated defeated de de- de b by two votes For a time it appeared that the measure measure mea mea- sure would be forced to a final vote yote but those in char charge e of it abandoned the attempt when Southern senators threatened to bolt the 1 bill if It an amendment amendment amend amend- ment offered by Senator McNary Republican Republican Re Re- publican Oregon sponsor of the proposal pro was adopted It provided that not more than out of ot the tho revolving funds should be used in marketing cotton The southerners claimed that tho the amendment would spoil the effectiveness effective effective- ness of the bill so far as cotton was concerned and the debate got so heated that the Oregon senator withdrew withdrew with with- drew it with tho explanation that he probably would it Wednesday In modified form Corm The senate then passed on to an amendment IJ by Senator Harris Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat Georgia proposing to give tho tho farm commodities in the bill a 50 per percent percent percent cent rail and ship preferential rate for the export trade After some discussion discussion dis dis- dis consideration went over until Wednesday at the request of Senator Norris Republican Nebraska Before BeCore the senate called it a day however It had reduced the appropriation tion for the revolving fund from Cram to eliminated cattle cattle cat cat- tle entirely from Crom the measure and made the equalization fee operative against corn immediately instead of in three years years Other amendments approved defined swine processing as slaughter by b purchaser purchaser purchaser pur pur- chaser for market which would permit permit permit per per- mit a farmer to slaughter his own hogs hogsand hogsand hogsand and sell the meat without paying the 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 districts producing producing pro pro- more than 50 per cent of the crop as figured figure on the basis of the last ast previous census |
