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Rep. Duncan Joins In Vote Against 'Jesse James' Bill A. ROBERT SMITH Mill Tribune Washington Correspondent acre, rcsulling in a cotlon sur--lus today of 12 lo 13 million bales, he argued. Duncan failed n an effnrt to get the Talmadge bill approved in place of the ad ministration's bill. Duncan said cotton producers are opopsed to the Talmadge bill because it would involve di rect payments to them from the government. "They like to preserve the illusion of independence," ob served Duncan, but it is an illu sion because they are dependent vation. I tiffa ft I 1 iyiym TOYLAND LOWER FLOOR WASHINGTON - if there is a honeymoon spirit on Capitol Hill toward President Lvndon B. Johnson, most of the Oregon on the government." congressional delegation is be- The Talmadge bill reminds having like a polite but deter- farmers of the old Brannan plan, mined maiden lady. I and neither they nor the Ken- The tall Texan in the White nedy Johnson administration House has won their praise with j wanted to head into an election his words but hasn't had much ; year trying to defend that inno- luck in getting uiem to consent to what they don't wish to do. In the House last week, three out of four of the Oregon con gressmen opposed the first ma jor bill to come up in that chamber with Johnson's en dorsement. It provided for subsidy for cotlon textile mills. In the Senate the previous week, the White House not only failed to line up Sen. Wayne , Morse on the first bill but re ceived Morsian scolding for its; pains. That bill was designed to facilitate sale of wheat to Rus sia. Comfortable Margin The cotton bill had been held back in the House for weeks by Democratic leaders who feared it would be defeated. They moved quickly after Johnson j took office, possibly to take ad-! vantage of the honeymoon spirit, and put it through by a com fortable margin, 216 to 182. Rep. Robert B. Duncan, Med ford Democrat, was a vocal dissenter and the one the ad ministration worked hardest to pull into line because Duncan is on the Agriculture Committee which handled the bill. Duncan claims he didn't get "the treatment," as Johnson's special brand of persuasion is called, but Agriculture Secre tary Orville Freeman was dis patched to Capitol Hill to try to talk Duncan into supporting the "It was a lousy bill," snorted I Duncan later. "I call it the KA Jesse James bill because it will I hold us up for more money." Rep. Edilh Green, Portland Democrat who voted against farm subsidy bills advanced by t h e Kennedy administration, agreed with Duncan. She and Rep. Walter Norblad, Stayton Republican, both voted against the cotton bill. Its only supporter from Ore gon was Rep. Al Ullman, Baker Democrat. The cotton bill carries a sub sidy estimated to cost $250 mil lion a year. It provides that cot ton brokers be paid 8'4 cents per pound for cotton they sell to domestic textile mills. They are already paia this subsidy for cotton sold to foreign buyers. Purpose is to permit brokers to sell cotton to mills at the 24 cent world price rather than the 32' cent level which cotlon producers are guaranteed under the government's cotton price support program. "I do not come from a cotton producing area," Duncan told the House. "But in my district we have lots of people who wear shirts and who pay taxes." Favored Talmadge Bill I Duncan said he thought that a more satisfactory approach ; would be the Talmadge bill. It; would pay farmers directly the ! difference between what is con sidered a fair market price and what they can get for it on the ; open market. It would also im-1 pose production quotas in bales on the farmer rather than try j lo limit production through acre age allotments. Under the present system of acreage allotments, cotton pro duction is intensified on each Freeman Expecting Increased Leeway In Operations S&$lV' . .ZMf'JF 1 Z A I '-31V f l I Si 4? HAPPY COUPLE-Mrs. Nancy Sinatra Sands, left, and her husband, singer Tommy Sands, were two happy and relieved people in New Orleans at an impromptu news conference held after her brother. Frank Sinatra Jr., was released by kidnapers in California. Mrs. Sands said she was "obviously very happy." (UPI) WASHINGTON (UPI) Alic leader. Johnson was lamiliariwill suffer a H in inrnm- M source close to Secretary of Ag-iWith farm legislaiion. A Texan, I about 1600 million if the lower he knows the Problems of the pnce SUpport g0es into effect. Midwest and Southwest farm- ir-. ,? ,,; ing area. As a senator, he fa- F?ema" 'ldu aud,enccs ""E vored high price supports for wcck in Oklahoma City and farm commodities. Minneapolis that he had talked Johnson already has started I with Johnson about the wheat the wheat legislative bill to roll ing. He has been described as apprehensive over the loss of ricultare Orville L. Freeman said President Johnson recently "threatened" Freeman with "arrest" if the cabinet member resigned or tried to resign. This was taken as an indica tion that Freeman will remain in Johnson's cabinet indefi nitely. The source said Johnson will j inmB farmers will suffer give Freeman as much, or per- wncn the market price of wheat haps more, leeway in running rops next summer to near the the department than the late now-scheduled support price of President Kennedy did. aboui 51.25 per bushel. Johnson and Freeman are! The wheat plan turned down known to view agricultural I by farmers in a referendum problems with a great deal of j May 21 called for a $2 support similarity. Irate. Department economists As longtime Senate Democrat-1 have estimated wheat growers SECTION C MEDFORDf PAGES 1 tol2 Tribune THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12. 196a situation. He said Johnson indi cated his "strong feelings that a wheat program will be neces sary." Freeman represented Johnson as feeling that the program must be one that Congress will pass, that it must keep costs in line and bring surpluses down. Before Kennedy's assas sination Freeman said frequent ly he would consider any rea sonable wheat program, but he saw no point in plugging for one unless the votes in Con gress were available. THAT'S REASONABLE SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-The "correct" wine for any occasion is the one the drinker likes best according to the Wine Institute. fcif J W J Li P1'- . it ti . TV. ''iimmi n 1 Dahl and her - PAIR SEPARATES Actress Arlcne husband, Christian R. Holmes III, have decided "reluctantly and regret fully" to separate after three years of marriage, a spokesman said in Hollywood. 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