SIMPLY HAD TO PASS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7

SIMPLY HAD TO PASS.

U.S. FARM RELIEF BILL. WASHINGTON, March 22. The Farm Relief Bill was passed by the House of Representatives in the face of sharp criticism. It will be pressed through the Senate without delay. The House debate was limited to four hours by determined supporters of the President. The most determined charge was that it was a "party spoils" measure that would do the farmers no good, but was designed to provide jobs for an army of Democratic office-seekers. . Hundreds of thousands of minor officials will be required to administer farm relief. Mr. Britten got much applause when he called it a gigantic programme of patronage. Mr. Roosevelt wanted this legislation and Congress must deliver it to him. Mr. John Clark (New York) said: "This bill came from Soviet Russia. It is filled with bunk. It makes jobs for all the so-called farm .leaders. It will get the country into endless trouble. I find no virtues in the bill at all, but I intend to vote for it." It is estimated that the bill will tax American consumers 800,000,000 dollars ( £160,000,000 at par) a year to provide artificial prices for farm commodities.