AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

Mr. ForT. And if you can do that, you do not need the equalization
fee, do you?

Mr. Brepsok. If you go ahead and make your cooperatives large
enough to handle this surplus, and they give it this control, that
answers your question, sure. But, do you ever expect the millennium
to come: [Laughter.]

Mr. Fort. But, you want to force the noncooperator to carry his
share.

Mr. BLepsoE. No, not force him to carry it. I don’t want to
force him to do anything. I just want justice with the fellow carrying
the surplus. If you have got something else that suits me just as
well, and will make it Constitutional, why, all right; and I think
you can do it if you decide you want it. You can devise any method
that will be Constitutional. I appreciate the honesty of this Com-
mittee here, and I believe you are honest and want to do something
but you can kill a cat in all kinds of ways. ’ ’

Mr. Fort. Well, there may be some question about that. I think
the Supreme Court is a little cleverer than we are.

Mr. BrepsoE. I don’t think so. I do not think the men who have
written the Constitution are any more honorable than you are. We
have tried eighteen times to fix it right.

Mr. Fort. Your objection has been forcibly expressed, and you
feel that the cooperatives are not organized to do this job of carrying
the surplus?

Mr. BLepsoe. Not on the basis you propose, to make them a
buyer and a seller, Mr. Fort. Just as an individual and a practical
handler of the commodity, I am trying to tell you gentlemen earnestly
and honestly what I feel about this bill.

Mr. Fort. And as a member of a cooperative.

Mr. BLepsok. And as a handler for years of this crop. Please
remember I am speaking relative to cotton. I am a cotton man.
eh orn. put when you come to the major crops, like cotton, in

y al, act of it is that since the cooperators are carriers
and sellers, since their organization——

Mr. BLEDSOE (interposing). Yes.
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merchan dise operation. ving and going into the general

r. BLEDSOE. I will answer you this way. We have had e 1
ence in handling a } i HP ehis
feature to ror. 8a surplus, pond Mr. Stone is going to explain this

Mr. b ape. But a are not going to part with you yet.

Mr. Fort. What I am trying to get at is this, the pr 1
: 1 tryu b , oblem 1s one
of jing ay selling, which is the thing that makes 4 distinction
hoard pnd, etween the ability of the present cooperatives to
this operation and the mere selling operation which th
now organized to perform—whether feel th tualisation
£00 15 Tors her you feel that the equalization
financing el surplus handling corporation or organization, for
reason why hs oS on Or whether you feel there 1s some other
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Mr Fon LEDER, I tried to make as clear a statement as I could,