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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
Mr. ANDRESEN. That is a small part of the country.

Mr. Gray. But it is a large wheat-producing country.

Mr. ANprESEN. But if we do have normal conditions we will
have a large surplus? Is that correct?

Mr. Gray. My conviction is, representing the organization, that
there will be a necessity for surplus control and disposal legislation
until Congress repeats its former action of last session; yes. That
question is going to be before the Congress until it is settled in some
way that really grapples with the surplus question.

Mr. AnprESEN. Knowing those facts, then you are willing to go
ahead and say that unless we pass a bill with the equalization fee
in it we ought to wait until some subsequent Congress has taken
upon itself the responsibility of passing a measure, and until we get
a President that will sign the bill?

Mr. Gray. I believe it would be the concensus of opinion of our
membership, as reflected in the resolution I have read, as well as ones
adopted years prior thereto, that any step toward setting up a farm
board with nothing to do would be a step which would not serve
agriculture usefully.

Mr. ANDRESEN. Do you assume to speak for the members of the
farm bureau of J State of Minnesota?

r. Gray. Yes, sir.

Mr. PurnELL. Mr. Gray, may I ask you right in that connection—
we haven't pg here yet the equalization fee. We had not
gotten quite down to it.

Mr. Gray. Pardon me, Congressman. My presentation has
been, as much as I could di-ect it with the questioning of the com-
mittee members, confined to amendments which we desire.

Mr. PurneLL. In what you said a while ago, Mr. Gray, you hinted
or suggested that your committee wanted to lift out of the McNary
bill one of the sections which we find on the comparative print at
page 7 pre, and set 1t over into Chairman Haugen’s bill.

ir. Gray. Yes.

Mr. PurNeLL. You know what I have in mind?

Mr. Gray. Yes.

Mr. PurNeELL. Now, what I want to ask you is this: I think I have
learned this from conversation perhaps with you and other members,
that in an honest effort to try to meet the objections of the President
and still preserve some of the principles in which your organization
believes, and for which all of us have been putting up the best fight
we know how to put up here for a number of years, you set up these
intermediate conditions which must be met and which must be found
to ih, before the equalization fee starts. Is that correct? =
I 'T. Gray. Under Senator McNary’s bill there are four conditions
ol ich must, by the Federal Farm Board, be found to exist prior to

e public finding that a marketing agreement and an operation
period shall be put into effect,

idx Pusan, In other words, in your effort to meet the equaliza-
+ You ha op aen, or, rather, soften the objection that there was to
revolving Lu 2 hope ot creating a board and providing for this
ble to operate here witho t : Sl Tommus, 3 Wight bo poss
DC ut even calling into being the equalization