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ticular committee; and I can think of no more delightful subject
upon which to hear a valedictory from this very charming valedic-
torian than a discussion of the debenture plan by Hon. Tom Con-
nally of Texas. [Apvlause.]
STATEMENT OF HON. TOM CONNALLY, REPRESENTATIVE IN
CONGRESS FROM TEE STATE OF TEXAS
Mr. ConnarrLy. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee,
I thank you for your indulgence for just a few minutes and for this
Ketcham, for giving me this opportunity to make a few observations
sense of the term anywhere. I hove to be around these parts for a
long while yet.

Mr. Harr. In higher degree.

Mr. Connarry. I thank the gentleman from Michigan, Mr.
Ketcham, for giving me this opportunity to make a few observations
in reference to agricultural legislation.

Probably most of you know I voted against the McNary-Haugen
bill. I have been abused by many cooperative representatives here
who are drawing pretty handsome salaries. But I have been trying
to vote for the farmer, whether he belonged to a cooperative organiza-
tion or not; and what I wanted to suggest to the committee this
morning is that it seems to me as a Member of Congress that 1t is
about time for this committee and for the Congress to quit fooling
the farmer and really pass some practical measure that stands some
chance of becoming a law.

We know when the Haugen bill was up before a lot of gentlemen
said that the President would veto it; a great many others just as
solemnly, who had been down and eaten some corn cakes with the
President a few mornings, were just as sure he was going to approve
it. It was easy for those who voted either way to console themselves.
But we know now that he did veto it and we know now that if he
did have the nerve to veto it once he has got nerve enough to veto
it again. It would be very easy for us to come along and say, “ We
will have the McNary-Haugen bill or nothing, and we will take it
over and put it on the President’s doorstep and let him veto it if he
wants to.” That will get you some farmer votes probably; it will
get you the loyal devotion of some cooperatives, and a lot of them
that do not understand the situation will still vote for you. But for
the farmer who is on the farm that really wants some action, that
1s not going to get you very far as soon as he finds out the truth about
the thing. That is what the “co-ops” did last year. They de-
manded the Haugen bill or nothing and they got nothing.

I have been down mixing among the farmers. They are not fools;
they are not all being fooled by these maneuvers of political farmers
up here in Washington. There is a whole lot of difference between a
high-salaried lobbyist, whose job will play out as soon as real relief
ts Franted, and the farmer back home who works on the farm with

I know something about farming. I have got a farm myself; my
Wits Ss got a farm; and I have been on that farm this fall and up
N pr ety recently terracing it and looking after it and trying to put

and to make it productive. You will not fool those