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.
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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
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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
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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.
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