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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
to where section 4 begins. Those things are in accord with the wishes
of the organizations which are cooperating upon this bill, providing
section 4, in the matter of advisory councils, be changed in some way,
which I will suggest here, if I may. The producers of the commodity
should be given a little bit more direct control over the Federal Farm
Board.

Mr. AnpresEN. Will you read the amendment you desire?

Mr. Gray. I will. In section 2, as you will notice the Federal
Farm Board is made up just as any Federal board is constructed, by
appointment by the President of the United States, with the advice
and consent of the Senate. This modification, which I shall read,
is to give the producer a little bit more of a controlling hand in con-
oan the affairs and policies which issue from the Federal Farm

oard.

Mr. Swank. Do you think that is important, the selection of the
Farm Loan Board?

Mr. Gray. Yes.

Mr. Swank. You are talking about progression and progressing,
but do you think that will make this permanent?

Mr. Gray. On behalf of the men who are associated together, we
might personally rather have the appointment of that board at the
designation and upon the recommendation of the farmer groups,
similar to that in the bill at the last session, but there is a constitu-
tional question involved which none of us deny.

Mr. Kercuam. There is the constitutional question in the equali-
zation fee, but that is still another thing.

Mr. Gray. That will be explained later.

Mr. KercraM. I want to ask you about that, then.

Mr. Gray. In regard to the make-up of the board, inasmuch as all
Federal boards are made up in conformity with that plan which is
written into section 1, we are advising that the part of section 4
be changed so that the advisory councils will be given a little bit
more contact with the operations of the board.

Mr. Jones. Let me call your attention to this fact in that con-
nection.

Mr. Gray. Certainly.

Mr. Jones. Only last week, at the request of the President, the
House appointed a commission to investigate the submarine S—4.
In the appointment of that committee, and in that measure we pro-
vided, in making the selections, that the committee selected should
be two retired naval officers and three civilians. In other words,
we limited the appointment of the President there, and he approved
the resolution. The House passed it as the President wanted it.
The President suggested or requested that it be left to the House
50 that his appointative power should be limited; and I am wondering
whether in this case, of this farm bill, whether it should be unlimited.

Mr. Gray. That commission you are speaking of, Congressman
Jones, is a temporary commission, and is not a permanent one, like
others which might be spoken of, for instance, the Shipping Board
or the Interstate Commerce Commission, and others. Other com-
missions and boards which have been appointed for only temporary
work are not required to comform to the consituttional requirements
of a permanent commission. In the bill we are supporting, I do not
think the constitutional question relative to the equalization fee is
uestioned.