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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

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Mr. RuBey. We do not know that.
Mr. ConnNaLLy. I say I am afraid of it. But, anyway, some
gentlemen say that ‘What is the Constitution among farm relief
politicians—what is the Constitution any way?” It is serious
gentlemen.
Mr. AsweLL. If you take it into the courts and there is a delay of
two, three, or four years, what will happen?
Mr. ConNaLLY. Of course, that is a possibility as suggested by
Doctor Aswell. It is taken into the courts. About the time you
get the equalization fee passed, some fellow will take it into court, or
before you get it organized some fellow will take it into the courts
and it will be declared unconstitutional and, of course, the thing
would blow up. And the hopes of the farmer would also blow up.
Mr. KiNncHELOE. May I ask you a question there?
Mr. ConnaLLy. Yes.
Mr. KincHELOE. On the question of the practicability of getting
a bill for the farmer that will do him some good, I am frank to say
to you I think there is a whole lot in the debenture plan. But do you
think the President of the United States would sign that bill?
Mr. ConnaLLy. I think he would come as near signing it as he
would the Haugen bill. [Laughter.]
Mr. KincaELoE. Then your bill 1s not any more certain than the
McNary-Haugen bill?
Mr. ConnNaLLy. No. But I will say to the gentleman from Kentucky
 that when I have tried a fellow on one thing and I know what
he has done on that I would a great deal rather take a chance on trying
 something else than to stick up the same old thing, as to which
I know what he is going to do. The President has vetoed the Haugen
bill once and eve.ybody knows he will do the same thing again.
You remember a tale of a certain dog that went down a certain
alley, and what happened to him (he got badly licked); and the dog
when invited to go down that certain alley again observed to one of
his dog friends, “No; I am not going down that alley, I know what
will happen to me if I go down that alley.”
The Haugen bill has been a “Down that alley’ once. oo
Mr. KincHELOE. Do vou think that bill would go down a similar
alley?
Mr. ConnarLy. The Haugen bill has been down that alley, and
you know what the President did to it, do you not? My prediction
's that if it is sent down that same alley again the same thing 1s going
to happen to the McNary-Haugen bill. So, I would rather try a
different alley. But I will say to the gentleman, as I previously said,
my bill is drawn so he can cut off the debenture plan and leave the
export corporation or direct appropriation from the Treasury, with
the power to purchase and carry farm products just as the Haugen
bill, except the fee is eliminated.
The President indicated he would approve the Crisp bill, as I
understand; he indicated that he would approve a bill drawn on the
plan of the bill of Doctor Aswell, of Louisiana. I voted for both of
those bills. }
Poe other thing about the equalization fee: That is why I voted
acainst the Haugen bill. There are a lot of people in my State who
are getting fat salaries from the cooperatives running around telling
the folks I am not in favor of the farmer. I have got a farm of my

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