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Members of the farm bloc, incensed by the defeat of the Haugen farm relief bill last week, blocked the effective working of the House, and action on a rivers and harbors bill and on a bill to raise the salaries of Federal judges was delayed...
...Brookhart has been stumping Iowa telling it just that, saying that Wall Street put him out of his seat, saying that Wall Street defeated the Haugen farm relief bill, saying that Wall Street put over the Esch-Cummins railway bill and the farmers are paying (through freight rates) the dividends on watered stock, saying that the farmers are enriching Wall Street because they have to buy under the protective tariff, saying Wall Street and the Administration are hand in glove, and mentioning incidentally that he voted against World Court adherence...
...went on to declare for the principle of the defeated Haugen bill?to this extent aligning himself against the Administration. He said that the proposed board to buy up farm surpluses in this country and sell them abroad to prevent domestic low prices was no larger interference in the business of agriculture than the functions of the Federal Reserve Board are in commerce and industry or of the Interstate Commerce Commission in transportation. He declared that in the long run the scheme would not cost the Treasury a dollar. That stand should be of material aid to him in Iowa...
...Defeated after an acrimonious debate the Haugen farm relief bill, by vote...
...Devoted nearly all its time, vocal effort and a considerable amount of bitterness to consideration of farm relief. The debate was on the Haugen bill, which originally proposed a fund of $375,000,000 to protect farm prices, but the amount was pared to $175,000,000 in order to improve the bill's chances; $75,000,000 of this amount was set aside for cotton to bring the South into line, and a bitter fight raged. The North and East turned on the bill calling it rank subsidy. Congressman Tincher (who had a more modest...