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same load of poles, to use the language of;the street? Now do you
really think that would be worth something to do that?

Mr. Gray. I think it would be worth something to do it, but 1
qualify your question by saying that we are not marching up the hill
with the same load of poles. This bill is, using the words that
Congressman Williams used the other day, substantially different
from the bill which was presented to the President before; but it is
substantially similar to the other bill in one feature.

Mr. Jones. I think in the main feature it is very similar to the
other bill, and that was the reason for my other question as to whether
you had any reason to hope for approval. Now, if you have some
hope of approval of the measure, even in its substantially changed
form, I can see very readily why it might be better, and I think
Sed poe some reason why it may be better even though there was

Mr. Gray. We are on the fighting line, Congressman i
behalf of this bill, and whatever the patter might be * We are
willing to meet it. Whenever the membership of these various farm
groups change their position which, as I indicated in answering
Congressman Andresen’s question this morning, would be a long
time coming about, because farm groups do not change their position
quickly—they can not, their physical make-up does not permit them
to do it—whenever that condition comes around, whoever represents
these groups might come before this committee and its successor
with a different position. But that is some time in the future, and
i 4 o resent tenor and frame of agricultural mind, it is not
of pir ees 1 was Just trying to get a thorough understanding

Mr. KincaeLoE. Mr. Gray, I want to ask esti
[Inasmuch as this seems to bo just a question brass there 1a n
question whether we are going to abolish Congress and the Agricul
tural Committee and just have a President. I want to asl 3 ou .
few questions along that line. So far as responsibility is concorn a.
and so far as the Congress and the mémbers of this  ommittes are
onagmme L an the farmers, that is a question which the individual

: ongress has to decide. So far as I am concerned I
not running to cover, and I am not excited. I have not a word on
earth to say against the President because he saw fit, in the ex
De Drerogative, to veto the McNary-Haugen bill; but he did not

re ri 1 i

ir en Ne ho Adil than we had to pass it.
to a Red tn question whether there is a movement
here, that is a splendid attitude. in eho, on some future bil
JT BO na e, In my judgment, to put the Congress
iy member when I used to read the Constitution i I

at we had three branches of the G enstitution it provided
was not only the nie: ? e Government and that the Congress
then it is un tot ator but, the one that enacted the legislation

pb to the President to sign it or veto it, b i id

veto it, Congress still had the right by tw thi d WE even If ho did

anyhow. It looks like the people ab a tim I one, a Da it

tatives were framing the Constitution we 2 kh ge their reprosen-

gress to enact legislation. So I £11 and on th of looking to Con-
still stand on that Constitution.