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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Variations of the Haugen Farm Relief Bill have put the Senate in a verbose broil for six weeks and have achieved the distinction of being voted down with mechanical regularity...
...this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization fee was to be deferred for three years. This alliance was supposed to be potent enough to bring at least a tie vote. Thereupon, Vice President Dawes would probably cast the deciding vote in favor of the bill. Mr. Coolidge would veto the measure, and embarrassment of the Administration, if nothing else, would ensue...
Next day, Senator Reed, (Dem.) of Missouri, stood up again: "The attempt to pass such a bill as this makes me sick all over-I hope to God that the Dawes' plan which he worked out for Europe is not so rotten economically as this...
Senators Wadsworth (Rep.), Underwood (Dem.), Robinson (Dem.) added various shades of damnation to Mr. Haugen's Bill. Party and sectional lines were snapping. "Hell and Maria" Dawes sat uneasily in his chair- perhaps he wouldn't even get a chance to vote. He didn't. The bill was pronounced dead by a score of 45 to 39. The corn belt had lost its grip because three cotton fibres had deserted it, and the corn belt Senators were wroth...
...good friend Senator Butler, decided that something-ought-to-be-done. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were summoned. They thought so, too. A Coolidge statement was sent out urging agrarian reform on a "sound basis." Congress was urged to adopt the Fess Bill which would set up a co-operative marketing bureau, financed by a $100,000,000 fund...