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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...
...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...
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...
...Futilely debated the Dawes-McNary-Haugen farm relief bill all week, without getting to a vote, although the vote was always imminent...
...passed a measure creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bureau to assist the farmers with advice and information on how to get rid of their crops profitably. This bill is approved by the Administration. The House defeated (TIME, May 31) the Haugen bill advanced by the farm bloc for raising farm prices by buying up the surpluses of the major crops. In the Senate this second bill was proposed as an amendment to the first, and the whole program of farm relief of any kind was threatened, since neither Senate, House nor President...