Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed its farm relief bill, with Debenture...
...Confirmed: Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board; onetime Senator Irwine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin as a judge in the Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
House Reception. Great was the uncertainty in the House as to the proper method of receiving the Senate's Farm Bill. Many a Republican leader felt that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell...
Conference. Farm Relief thereupon disappeared into the subterranean chambers of the Capitol where five Senators and five Representatives began to wrestle with their disagreements. Of the Senate conferees, three had opposed the Debenture Plan, two had favored it. All five of the House conferees opposed it. Its extirpation seemed certain...
Ways & Means. In a back-room political conference, the G. O. P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met the revolt against the Tariff Bill by holding additional secret hearings last week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products...