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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated farm relief; voted 47 to 44 to retain the export debenture plan in the bill (see below...
Through the Senate last week ill winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
Debentures In. Trouble began when the Senate voted 47 to 44 to retain in the bill the Export Debenture Plan, ten objections by President Hoover notwithstanding (TIME, April 29). The line of cleavage on this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no weight in the Senate where Democrats (with two exceptions) joined solidly against him and for the Debenture Plan; 2) The nine-year coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans still held a whip hand over major legislation, despite the G. O. P.'s paper majority of 17 votes...
...House, always jumpy about its constitutional prerogatives, stirred with plans for refusing to accept the Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...
...suggested that the salary of the chairman of the proposed Federal Farm Board be left to the President to fix, on the ground that he could thus obtain the services of a "high-powered" man who could be induced to take this job without financial sacrifice. The House bill authorized presidential leeway. So did the Senate bill until last week, when the Senate, a suspicious body, voted 46 to 32 to hold the board chairman's salary down to $12,000. Alarmed Senators claimed the President should not have such power, warned that he might fix the chairman...