COLLISION LIKELY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1942, Page 2

COLLISION LIKELY

PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ON ANTI-INFLATION ISSUE. FARM PRICES DISPUTE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, September 24. Fighting an apparently hopeless battle in the Senate, Senator Brown, who is in charge of the Administration’s anti-inflation measure, said he believed that Congress and the President were headed for a collision. He was fearful that at a time when unity was needed they were going to have criticism, disunity and discord between the legislative and executive branches of the Government. Speaking after 13 members of the Senate Agriculture Committee had voted to reject the Administration’s compromise in the controversy over the farm parity price provisions in the Anti-Inflation Bill, Senator Brown said it was possible the dispute might have to be resolved in the third branch of the Government (the Supreme Court). He said that the Bill, if finally adopted by Congress, would have to be vetoed. There was not the slightest doubt in his mind that after such a veto the American people would demand that the President take action. Neither was there the slightest doubt that the President had authority under the Second War Powers Act.