BETTER FARM PRICES
AMERICA'S PROGRAMME BILL PASSED BY SENATE WASHINGTON, July 23. (Received July 24, at 8.30 p.m.) The Senate, by 64 votes to 15, passed the A.A.A. Amendment Bill, much cut and patched, but broadening and bolstering the Administration's programme for increasing farm prices. Its two main purposes are providing the Secretary of Agriculture with new weapons to push farm prices to parity with the -prices of other commodities, either by a processing tax or marketing and crop control agreements, and, secondly, to prepare for the time when the Supremo Court will pass the validity of the A.A.A. programme. The Bill validated all processing taxes imposed before its passing, ratifying them at the present levels, and legalised all benefit contracts under which farmers have been paid about 700,000,000 dollars. The Bill, which had already been passed by the House, goes back'for consideration of the changes made by the Senate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 9
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150BETTER FARM PRICES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 9
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