AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 203 Mr. Kenoe. I hope you will do that gracefully and vote for the McNary-Haugen bill, as you did before. Mr. KincHeLok. Mr. Kehoe, if it gets down to the question of what the President is going to do, I am going to say, as a member of the committee, I do not take any stock in that at all. Of course, as you say, the framers of the Constitution gave the power to initiate legislation and to legislate to Congress. It further fortified that by providing that a two-thirds vote can override the veto of any Presi- dent. So, I agree with you heartily that it is a question of Congress shouldering its responsibility the same as the President shoulder his. Now, suppose the bill that the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Adkins, proposed, is put up to the President, I am frank to say, and I think you will agree, that I have more respect for the President than to say he would sign such a bill as that, in view of his former state- ment. Mr. Kenoe. In view of his errors of the past. I do not know what may be his errors of the future. Mr. KixcHELOE. So far as practicable all legislation that will be enacted here for the President to sign, I think you will agree with me that the President is just about as likely to sign this as he would be a debenture plan, when you are going to disturb the tariff proposition, do you not think so? Mr. Kenok. I think so. I think if the President decides to sign any bill he will finally decide to sign this one. But there is no responsibility anywhere on the President for legisaltion—now here. He has the privilege of vetoing, and I will concede that it has grown probably into a great deal more force and effect than it should have, and it is not without complaint that I have heard members of Con. gress saying that the rights of the legislative branch of the Govern- ment were being encroached upon in various and sundry ways by boards and other things. It is a serious problem for Congress to sustain its responsibility. If I were a Member of Congress I would resent the slightest encroach- ment upon the rights of Congress. There has already been too many of them, gentlemen; and you are the man at the foundation of this Government; you are its foundation; there could be no executive, there could be no judiciary, if the legislative branch had not created both of them. You are.the man of the house; you furnish the money to run this Government. There can be no war declared without you. If you did not exist there could be no executive and no judiciary part of this Government. So the Member of Congress that does not realize and does not, feel the responsibility and the great honor that has been conferred upon him by being a member of this great body falls short of his proper conception. I consider it one of the greatest honors of my life to have been a member of this body. I say everywhere that I never saw a body of men discharge its duties with more fidelity and efficiency than they have. In the years I was here I never attended a com- mittee mecting—since I have been here I have never attended a meeting of this committee but what the majority of the members were here ready to do the best they could. I never saw the hour of 12 arrive when the men elected to perform the duty of assembling the House were not there to perform their duty, and while there Is some jocular criticism of the Congress and some foolish people try to make fun of it, gentlemen, the people realize what vou are.