Democrat of Massachusetts, to-day {introduced a resolution which would authorize the President to lease destroyers to the governments of any American republics under such terms fand conditions as he may' prescribe.
Brozil_ so far has been the only nation to make such a request, The [Secretary of State, Mr, Cordell Hull, addressed a letter to Senator Walsh Jand to President Roosevelt commend ing the proposal because, he said, it was preferable for the United States to extend assistance American Jeountries find such assistance neces sary. In addition, he pointed out, the faction would keep decommissioned destroyers in running order and available for instant use, if the ships /were leased under proper terms and conditions.
Cuban Sugar Sonstor Claude Pepper of Florida to-day' notified the Senate Finance Committee that he would offer amendment to the sugar bill cutting the quota on Cuban sugar imports Jand correspondingly increasing the Florida production quota.
Sonstor Allen J, Ellender and Senator John B, Everton, both of Louisiana, said that if the amendment was included in the bill they: would demand a proportionate increase in the quota of their own state.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Re-of Michigan, interposed, not change the whole theory of the bill if you seck write specific state quotas into it?" Mr. Everton, conceded that it would Mr. Walter G, Andrews, Republican of New York, opposing the bill but apparently for different reasons than Senator Vandenberg, denied that sugar growing was an innovation in Florida. He said that one plantation was 3 century old, and testified that thousands of acres in the Everglades which are now idle could. produce sugar and employ thousands of ad. Gitional persons. He said that Florida had consumed 120,000 tons of sugar last year, nearly twice the production quota which' the bill as stands now allots to the state—United Press,
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