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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
is, the powers that are underthe marketing agreement—from the board 
to the advisory councils. 
Mr. Gray. May I read these amendments now, Mr. Chairman, so 
that we will have the basis of our discussion more adequately before 
us? v 
Having suggested the changes for section 4, it necessarily follows 
that changes be made in section 7, and these are proposed: 
(a) When the advisory councils in the districts which in the aggregate represent 
more than fifty per cent of any commodity, or when a substantial number of 
cooperative associations or other organizations of producers of the commodity 
in such districts favor the full cooperation of the board in the marketing of the 
surplus of the commodity—— 
Now dropping into the text of the bill: 
And whenever the board find— 
First. That there is or may be during the ensuing year a surplus above the 
requirements for the orderly marketing of any agricultural commodity or above 
the domestic requirements for such commodity; 
Second. That the durability, the conditions of preparation, processing, and 
preserving, and the methods of the marketing of the commodity are such that 
the commodity is adapted to marketing as authorized by this section. 
Then leaving out the third condition in the bill as printed, and 
dropping over to line 4 on page 10: 
Then the board, after publicly declaring its finding, shall arrange for the 
marketing of such surplus. 
And so forth. 
Mr. Crark. Now, Mr. Gray, I believe you are just setting up there 
nothing but a buck-passing machine, as I think you are going to 
find, in your advisory council. That is right herein your proposition. 
Now let us center somewhere the authority. That is my idea. 
Mr. Apkins. It seems to me right there, Mr. Clark, as long as you 
have brought that up, that this matter of an operating period on any 
commodity should not be started unless most of the farmers inter- 
ested in the commodity think that it ought to be. This very 
amendment cures that very condition. 
Mr. Fort. May I ask a question? In fact what you have done is 
take what was third in section 7, which was one of the things the 
board had to find existed, namely, that a substantial number of 
cooperatives on the advisory council wanted the board to act. That 
had to be found as a fact by the board before it could act. 
Mr. Gray. Yes; in the bill as written. 
Mr. Fort. Now, you have taken that out from a thing that is 
necessary to be found by the board as a fact and made it a recital 
preliminary to the board’s finding any fact. 
Mr. Gray. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Fort. In other words, you have put the initiative for any 
action by the board not in the board itself, but in the commodity 
councils. ; 
Mr. Gray. In the commodity councils in districts which represent 
more than 50 per cent of the commodity. 
Mr. Fort. Or the cooperative associations. 
Mr. Crark. I don’t think that is quite right. 
. Mr. Fort. On the geographical council or the cooperative associa- 
bion. You are putting the initiative on the geographical council or