Volume 7 , Issue 19

July 1935 - Legal Assaults On Act Continue...

The Alva Review-Courier dated July19, 1935 takes us back to a time of AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933). According to one of the frontpage headlines in this NW Oklahoma newspaper, legal assaults on the Act continued all the way to the Supreme Court. The Boston U. S. Circuit Court held the AAA wheat processing tax unconstitutional, sending the issue to the supreme court.

Another Reversal -- Basing his opinion on the Boston Court's decision a Brownsville, Texas, federal judge held that licensing provisions of the act also were unconstitutional.

Washington, July 19 (1935) - UP - Asserted that the Bankhead cotton bill and the AAA program probably would be held unconstitutional by the supreme court, Rep. Martin Dies, democrat, Texas, disclosed that he asked President Roosevelt to support a substitute plan for benefit payments to wheat and cotton growers. Dies said he had written the White house for support of his bill, that was before the house agriculture committee. The payment, he estimated at between $300,000,000 and $4,000,000,000. Dies said he suggested to the president that the program could be financed from the $4,000,000,000 emergency public works fund. His program embraced a domestic allotment plan under which American Farmers would receive benefits on that portion of their crop consumed domestically.

Licensing Invalid -- Brownsville, Texas, July 19, 1935 - UP - Federal Judge T. N. Kennerly ruled that licensing provisions of the agricultural adjustment acts are unconstitutional. He quoted the ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court which invalidated the NRA as decided the matter.

Birmingham, Ala., July 19, 1935 - UP - Six Alabama firms, attacking the government's processing taxes on cotton and pork, won the first round of their battle when Federal Judge Charles Kennamer granted them a temporary injunction enjoining collection of the levies.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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