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Show eura firm BILLSURVIVES FEE CLAUSES OF EQUALIZATION STANDS FIRE, AS DO ALL CONTROVERTED PHRASES Kansan Charges Farm Organizations Conduct Lobby; Cummins Talks; Fee To Be Authorized Immediately Immed-iately Washington. House consideration of the Haugen farm relief bill for amendment neared completion with the most controverted sections approved, ap-proved, including the provision for an equalization fee on the sales of basic crops. Without a record vote, the house rejected re-jected a motion by Representative Newton, Republican, Minnesota, to strike out the clause authorizing the equalization fee to raise funds for stabilizing price3 during seasons of surplus. It agreed, however, to an amendment amend-ment by Representative Jones, Democrat, Demo-crat, Texas, to require the proposed federal farm board to advertise for forty days its intention to levy the fee, which could not be assessed if a majority of the farm organizations opposed it. The fee would be authorized author-ized immediately on wheat, corn, cattle, cat-tle, hogs and butter, and after two y'sars could be plated on cotton. During debate Representative Tin-cher, Tin-cher, Republican, Kansas, author of the Tincher credit bill, pending with the. Haugen and the Curtis-Aswell uouimouiLy uiaritetmg proposals nuri-ed nuri-ed charges of "vicious lobbying" at delegates of farm, organizations supporting sup-porting the " Haugen bill. He said members of congress were being bombarded by telegrams "ordered" by the "lobby" in Washington. The Kansas member added that the recent amendments to' the bill agreed to by Chairman Haugen of the agriculture agricul-ture committee had been drawn up at a meeting to which he (Tincher) was not invited, although Frank W. Murphy Mur-phy and George N. Peek, representing farm organizations in the corn belt, weer present. "It is strange," asserted Mr. Tin- J cher, who is a member of the agricul- j ture committee, "that this action was not taken by the committee, but in- ! I Representative McLaughlin, Republican, Repub-lican, Nebraska, defended Murphy, as well as Chester H. Gray of the American Ameri-can Farm Bureau federation, from Mr. Tincher's charges of unfair lobbying. |