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...Rejected the Fess Bill for farm relief, 54 to 26. Passed minor Co-operative Marketing Bill. (See below). ¶ Ordered the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the handling of the "bread trust" cases by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Senator La Follette, son of the late Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, has taken up this matter as his first national fight. ¶ Passed the last appropriation bill, the second general deficiency, carrying a total of $44,000,000 with the House approving it the same...
President Coolidge's gentle plan to help the farmer, the Fess Bill, was voted down emphatically, 54 to 26, after six hours of muddy verbiage. Senator Fess had a rough time protecting his bill...
...final appearance of what Senator Fess calls "this Dawes-McNary-Haugen plan," the darling of them all, was to be managed by a well-oiled coalition of the South and the Corn Belt. In the night before the voting, a plan was hatched. It sounded good: $150,000,000 was to be set aside as a revolving fund to aid in the marketing of farm products. This was to be paid for by an equalization fee. But to lure the Dixie Senators, one-half of this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization...
...with the aid of 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...
...This has made the Vice President some curious friends. One of them is Mr. Brookhart, who was defeated in 1924 because he denounced Mr. Dawes as part of the Republican ticket. Now Mr. Brookhart is quoting Dawes on farm relief in Iowa. Another is Senator Watson of Indiana. Senator Fess of Ohio, hoary onetime college president, launched a bitter attack on "this Dawes-McNary-Haugen plan...