AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
Mr. AsweLL. The last remark you made there is directly applicable 
to my bill. (Liaughter.) 
Mr. KiLcore. I am very much interested in your bill. 
Mr. AsweLL. I would not want a better statement for my bill. 
That is exactly what I stand for. I have been discussing this farm 
legislation for a generation, almost—my generation at least—in the 
House—with the cotton farmers; and really this bill, with a clause 
in it restricting production, without the fee and with the insurance 
plan, as seems sympathetically accepted here, I am honest in my 
belief that is exactly the kind of bill that the cotton folks have been 
wanting all these years I have been in Congress. I believe that 
covers the whole situation. It is a cotton bill as it stands. I do not 
know about the other commodities, but this bill, without the fee and 
with the insurance plan, is a cotton bill from beginning to end. 
Ar. Kivcore. Doctor Aswell—— 
Mr. Aswerrn. That is my honest judgment. 
Mr. KiLcorE. You know merely writing a restriction clause into a 
bill like this will not restrict production. There has got to be some- 
thing real there. The equilization fee would be an economic deter- 
rent and would not be merely a restriction in the bill. 
Mr. AsweLL. Perhaps. Do you not agree that this bill with the 
insurance plan is a good cotton bill, without the fee? 
Mr. Kincore. You understand, we are absolutely for the imsurance 
plan? 
Mr. AsweLL. Yes, sir; I am. 
Mr. KiLgore. All of the cotton cooperatives want the Bledsoe 
insurance provision. 
Mr. AsweLL. I think the committee is sympathetic. 
Mr. KiLcore. We think that is one of the best contributions that 
has been made to this for of legislaticn. 
Mr. AswerLL. That is the reason I am for the Haugen bill without 
the fee. [Laughter] 
Mr. KiLcore. We are absolutely for the insurance provision. Mr. 
Chairman, Doctor Aswell says that.with the insurance provision it 
would be a cotton bill. It would more nearly meet the needs of 
cotton than it would any other crop—general staple crop—than any 
other crop which carries tariff protection. 
I would not want—I may be wrong in this—a cotton bill that did 
not apply to other agricultural commodities; I would not want a 
bill that would work for cotton—and I do not think this bill without 
the equalization fee would work effectively for cotton—I would not 
want a bill that would work for cotton that would not work for 
wheat—— 
Mr. AsweLL. I did not say that, and nobody else says that. 
Mr. KiLcore. Cotton, tobacco, rice, hogs, corn, and the other 
staple crops—I would not want that for two reasons. 
Mr. AsweLL. Doctor, I did not mean that. Nobody else wants 
it if it does not work. 
Mr. Kircore. I understood you to say this would do for cotton. 
Mr. AsweLL. I said cotton, and you represent 6 per cent of the 
cotton of the country only and are talking for cotton. Now, I said 
this is a good cotton bill. It will work on tobacco and rice just as 
well as on cotton. 
Mr. KiLcorEe. I do not think it would be effective on any tariff- 
protected commodity. 
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