WISCONSIN IN THE CAPITAL
Mobley, Radford E.
Wisconsin in the Capital [By RADFORD E. MOBLEY] WASHINGTON, D. C—The Badger "five and ten" farm leaders delegation, so-called because many small contributions made the trip possible for the 35...
...The senate gave the Badger spokesmen two days, and persuaded them to cross-examine wi> nesses offered by Secretary Wallace...
...Leo Crowley, FDIC chairman, Aubrey Williams NY A chief...
...Preceding Badger cabinet members were Secretary o* Agriculture J. M. Rusk...
...The job applications began to roll in and only now are trickling off...
...Some of this money might be used for the dairy industry if the enabling law is passed at this session...
...Wisconsin in the Capital [By RADFORD E. MOBLEY] WASHINGTON, D. C—The Badger "five and ten" farm leaders delegation, so-called because many small contributions made the trip possible for the 35 representatives, made a good impression on the house and senate agricultural committees this week, beat down the opposition offered by the secretary of agriculture to making dairy products a basic commodity eligible for parity payments...
...Many from Wisconsin hold prominent positions in the new deal...
...The house gave the group only an hour and one-half, but it packed in much testimony for the record in that brief period...
...David E. Lilienthal...
...The department representatives asserted that administrative costs would be high if parity provisions are extended to dairying...
...Closest was Phil La Follette, the president's original number two man for the attorney generalship, accepted by the late Senator Walsh of Montana...
...Quick action by Senator Bob La Follette on the floor this week prevented favorable action by the senate on, a conference report which would have deprived the midwest of $1,000,000 to fight grasshopper infestation this year...
...Corrington Gill, Wisconsin's assistant WPA administrator, entered the fight among columnist over the number of unemployed after estimates were published ranging from two millions to more than 10 millions...
...Howe and Randall were both from Milwaukee...
...Gill took the latter figure as more nearly correct...
...Vircqua, Postmaster General and later Secretary of the Interior William F. Vilas...
...Who is the spokesman for this group," we asked Rep...
...RFC counsel, and others...
...In the past, the senator pointed out, the government generally did not act quickly enough, waited until the grasshoppers did their damage, then literally wasted the money supplied belatedly...
...If Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin Is named secretary of the navy when Charles Edison resigns, and the appointment now seems likely, he will be the first Badger member of the cabinet since 1904...
...But none has been a cabinet member...
...insisted that absent senators be called in and finally succeeded in defeating the report by 44 to 25...
...Senator Wiley has finally succeeded in convincing Wisconsin job seekers that he can't get any jobs under the New Deal...
...Why, they are all spokesmen, and here to make a complete record in favor of the parity bill for the dairy farmer...
...SEC commissioner...
...This is the closest Vandenberg has come to endorsing a specific program...
...Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan candidate for the presidency, greeted the Badger farm delegation for discussion and photographs on the same day he voted in the senate against the $212,000,000 in the agriculture department supply bill for parity payments...
...The senate conferees apparently had yielded quickly to the house, which objected to the additional $1,000,000 in an emergency appropriation bill...
...The report was on the verge of acceptance when La Follette lnter-vented...
...TV A director, Corrington Gill, assistant WPA administrator, Frank Kuehl...
...The Badger group pointed out that the local committees are already established for the general soil conservation program, and could handle administrative matters easily...
...SSB head...
...Madison, Postmaster General Timothy Howe, and Postmaster General Alexander W. Randall...
...Merlin Bull after a glance at the imposing list of names and the state and county organizations they represented...
...Katherine Lenroot, chief of the U. S. children's bureau, George C. Mathews...
...Ken Hones, representing the National Farmers Union, L. H. Roherty, of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau federation, W. H. Bundy, of the Dairy Parity League, Einar Ness, of Wisconsin Farmers Equity Union, and W. W. Clark, of the University's college of agriculture, led the long list of those who testified before toe congressional committees...
...La Follette was joined by a majority in urging that ridding the midwest of the grasshopper plague is more important...
...Vandenberg, however, urged the Badger delegation to "consider" the McNary-Haugen two-price plan for a guaranteed domestic parity price, plus what couid be obtained on world markets...
...Last year the senator learned the names of some Badger census officials and an eager newspaperman sent them out as his announcement...
...They explained hasty action on the measure was desirable as some federal jobs were at stake...
...The Wisconsin leaders left the conference in doubt as to whether he endorsed this one...
...These include Arthur J. Altmeyer...
...The last member of the cabinet from Wisconsin was Postmaster General Henry C. Payne of Milwaukee, who served until 1904...
...He is WPA's chief statistician and is constantly making sample surveys over the country...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
