But while debates on foreign policy and business depression will occupy much of the time of Congress both Houses are in ditty bound to take up the crop contro! bill as the first item Jon their programme. A joint resolu Won declaring this was passed before Jedjournment this summer in return for a Presidential promise (o renew Jerop loans and farm subsidies, The main points the President In~ sists upon in farm legislation are that any attempts to bolster farm prices must have as their counterpart. the Jeontrot of farm. surpluses. It is over this question of control that the battle will rage for the farmer is a great individualist. Under the old AAA he [was asked io ce-operate voluntarily In return for benefits and a similar dea will in alt probability be adopted by Congress in their now bill Once the farm Dill Is out of the way the next matter the Senate will have to discuss is the anti-lynching bill, Tt has nothing to do with the President's programme but verbal Promises were made at the close of the last session that it would be taken up as soon as farm legislation had been disposed of. The bill would naake local officers liable to punishment and local communities Hable to fines if they permitted lynchings to lake place, The Southern Senators are bitterly. opposed to the Dill not of course on the grounds that negroes who commit certain offences deserve to be lynched. but on the grounds that the bill pro= vides for an unwarrantable intrusion of the Federal Government into local affairs. They will feel in duty bound debate the bill at length but probably: would be secretly pleased at this! passage. It would provide them with fan extremely good talking point in their criticism of the New Deal to which most Southern Democrats are Row opposed.
Recognized as Desirable Possible Compromise 'The main problem is one of timing. 'The President's five-point programme ig recognized as being desirable even by many who consider that it is not desirable Immediately. The object of the programme, the' President ox-plained at a press conference, was to Improve the condition of the "underpriviteged third." The wages and hours bill would improve the lot of the Industrial worker, the crop con-rol and agricultural bill would improve the lot of the farmer, It was more important to raise the standard of living of the masses than to lighten, the burdens which had been Jaid upon The President did not intend to convey the Impression that, business would get no relief, but that the job of the "special session was to deal with the programme already outlined, Jeaving the relict of business burdens the regular session, except for minor regulatory changes which could be, accomplished "without" legislative action,
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