“A CONSUMMATE LIAR”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 7

“A CONSUMMATE LIAR”

AMENITIES IN U.S.A. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST POLITICIANS NEW YUEK, Sept. 17. Mr. Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, has acknowledged the detent of his plan for a “cotton-planting holiday” in 1932, after an acrimonious campaign which reached its culmination yesterday when the Senate of the State of Texas debated and passed by an overwhelming majority a resolution describing the Governor of Louisiana as “a consummate liar.” Mr Long’s plan to prohibit the plant ing of 'cotton during 1932 had been unanimously passed by the Legislature of Louisiana, and would have auto matically become law if the condition imposed by Mr. Long—namely, that the plan was only to ’become operative if it were adopted by States producing three-fourths of the total cotton crop ot the United States—had been fulfilled. South Carolina appeared likely to apovove the plan, but the Legislature of Texas, which produces one-third of the total crop, seemed likely to reject it. Mr. Long then declared that the Legislature of Texas was being openly bribed to vote against his plan. He said that its members were being “brandished with wine, women, and money,” that they had been “bought like a sack of corn,” and that lobbyists had “paid them off like a slot machine.” Members of the Texas Legislature furiously denounced this “arrogant braying from Lousiana,” and dared Mr Long to step across the State border After passing their resolution describing the neighboring Governor as a liar, the Legislature passed a bill for drastic acreage reduction as a substitute for trie holiday. The bill as passed provides for a reduction of 66 per cent., but an even lhore drastic amendment may be. passed for a reduction of 75 per cent. Cotton and wheat growers in Oklahoma are also pressing forward plans for a large acreage reduction in that State.