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Mr. KincrELOE. Will he agree to stay over until to-morrow if any 
of us want to ask him any questions? 
Mr. Apkins. Yes; he will agree to stay over. 
Mr. PurNELL. The committee is asked to give unanimous consent 
that this gentleman from Illinois be given the last 15 minutes to make 
a statement, with the understanding that if any members of the 
sommittee should desire to ask him any questions he will remain over, 
i en the further understanding that Mr. Bledsoe has not con- 
cluded. 
Mr. KincHELOE. And starts at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning as 
the first witness. 
Mr. Pur~neLL. Is there any objection to the unanimous-consent 
request? The Chair hears none, and Mr. Grennan, of Illinois, will 
he recognized for the last 15 minutes, with the understanding that if 
any member of the committee wants to ask him any questions he 
will remain over. 
STATEMENT OF MATT GRENNAN, ROCK FALLS, ILL. 
Mr. PurNELL. State your name and address for the reporter. 
Mr. GRexNAN. Matt Grennan, Rock Falls, Ill. 
Now, I have been listening to the discussion here for the last three 
or four days, and it seems to me that all the plans that have been put 
forth here resolve themselves right back to cooperative and orderly 
marketing, and they must be voluntary, pure and simple. It does 
not look to me like the laws of this country will allow any compulsory 
organization. 
That being the fact, gentlemen, with the cooperative marketing law 
as it iIs—now you gentlemen passed this cooperative marketing law, 
and that is the only law that we can operate under, and if we are going 
to organize the farmers we have got to give them something that is 
sufficient to organize on. We have got to give them sufficient induce- 
ment to organize on. I believe you understand that as I put it. 
Now, then, if the cooperative marketing law gives the cooperative 
to stabilize the price, why not go right back and let that cooperative 
marketing organization stabilize that price and build your organiza- 
tion on that price. 
For example, if we have the right to stabilize the price of corn at 
Bl—the cooperative marketing organization, I am talking about— 
you can go out through the country and get all the farmers to join 
an organization—you could stabilize the price at $1. Now, you are 
talking about the surplus, about the disposition of the surplus, and 
you have just simply got that condition that the control of the surplus, 
the only way in the world you can control any surplus is to get a 
price sufficient to carry that surplus on. We will just take corn as 
an example, because corn is the biggest thing in the world and the 
hardest thing to control. 
If IT have 3,000 bushels of corn with the price stabilized at $1, that 
makes me the seller, the cooperative, the seller and the processer the 
buyer. Suppose he says, “I will take 90 per cent of that corn, or 80 
per cent of it, or any per cent you want.” You have an overproduc- 
tion right there between the two. If I can sell 2,400 bushels of that 
3,000 bushels for $2,400, I don’t care a rap about that 600 bushels. 
But I am not going to dig into my farm to raise 600 bushels more next 
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