Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
Last week, with the House opening its debate on farm relief, the political situation began to crystallize in definite form, on definite issues, as it had not done in all the previous five months of this session of Congress. Political observers began to see that such an issue may arise as has not risen in the last two years, that the seeds of major political developments may be about to germinate. The reasons...
...farm relief problem centres on two bills. The Tincher bill (supported by the Administration) carries $100,000,000 to be lent as a revolving fund to farmers' cooperatives to aid them in solving their crop surplus problems. The Haugen bill (opposed by the Administration, demanded by many farm interests), carries a fund of $375,000,000, which contemplates Government purchase of farm surpluses in emergency to maintain domestic prices, and will impose (after two years) a tax on farm products to provide for losses in the use of the fund...
...three of the latter were up for reelection. Mr. Cummins in particular, faced Senator Brookhart, "the farmers' friend." But the politics of the situation reaches even further than the election of 1926?it reaches to 1928. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was on hand in Washington, openly advocating farm relief of the Haugen type...
...opinion, legislation which does not contemplate the ultimate handling of all principal farm products, through cooperatives, with some device such as an equalization fee*; to distribute the costs incident to handling the surplus among all the producers of the particular commodity, will not afford genuine and permanent relief...