Word: haugenism
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...most important thing about the farm relief proposals was nevertheless the parliamentary situation. The House had refused to pass the Haugen farm relief bill (TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS) by vote of 212 to 167. It had previously passed a bill supported by the Administration creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bill designed to aid farmers in forming and operating co-operative enterprises. In the Senate with an election coming on, and with the dissatisfaction registered by the farmers two weeks ago by the nomination of onetime Senator Brookhart and the defeat...
...Senator McNary of the Committee on Agriculture reported the one agricultural bill which the Senate had received from the House-reported with an .amendment. The amendment was the addition to it of the entire Haugen bill (defeated by the House) with very little change. If the Senate were to pass the bill as Mr. McNary wished, the House might consent to a joint conference to arrange the differences or it might, as seemed probable, reject the Haugen bill just as it was rejected before. If by any chance the House should accept the Haugen bill, it was reasonably certain that...
Senator Moses took an informal poll, which indicated that there would be 52 votes against the Haugen bill in the Senate, enough to defeat it. But that did not still the disturbance. The Senators from the northeastern states were against it, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia brought most of the southern Democrats into line against it. The advocates of the bill were led by Senator McNary of Oregon and Senator Gooding of Idaho. They included one Southerner, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and such others as Steck of Iowa, McMaster of South Dakota, Watson of Indiana and, strangely enough...
...Dawes sometime ago put the question of the advisability of the Haugen bill to an English economist, Sir Josiah Stamp. Sir Josiah approved it, and lately Mr. Dawes has been sitting in at the conferences of the supporters of the Haugen bill. In fact the bill, originally called the Haugen bill from the chairman of the House Committee of Agriculture, and then the McNary-Haugen bill, adding the name of the sponsor of the bill in the Senate, was last week dubbed by its opponents the Dawes-McNary-Haugen bill...
...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...