AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
Mr. KincauLoe. Which bill do you mean, the McNary-Haugen 
bill? } . ’ 2 
Mr. SEXAUER. The McNary-Haugen bill with its equalization 
fee, with its Federal farm board, for the purpose of elinia the c00p- 
erative organizations, for instance, which may not be strong enough 
to handle particular cominodities, and turning that function over 
to a farm board created by the Government. 
Mr. KiNncHELOE. But your association is not in favor of appro- 
priating any money out of the Treasury to help agriculture at all? 
Mr. SExAUER. Wait a minute—which absorbs the losses which 
occur from taking care of this surplus. 
Mr. CLarRkE. May I ask a question, Mr. Sexauer? 
Mr. SEXAUER. Yes. 
Mr. CLARKE. I understand that originally you were opposed to 
the first McNary-Haugen bill, including dairy products, is that right? 
Mr. SExAUER. The association went on record at that time as 
being opposed to that. 
Mr. CLARKE. But you really have made efforts or tried to evolve 
a plan for making certain that dairy products would not be included 
in this bill; is not that true? 
Mr. SExAUER. I think that is the case, Mr. Clarke, yes. 
Mr. Jones. In other words, you want to “try it out on the dog.” 
Mr. SExAUER. No, I believe that the dairy industry in the United 
States is probably better organized than any other agricultural 
industry, and that they are better able to solve their problems, pro- 
viding they are given a fighting chance, by having other agriculture 
in a prosperous enough condition so it does not force them into the 
dairy busiress. 
Mr. Jones. The whole purpose, as vou conceive it, of the McNary- 
Haugen bill is to try to bring the farmer in on the tariff 1s it not? 
Mr. SExaver. To give him the same benefit—not entirely—— 
Mr. Jones. Is not that its stated purpose in its preamble? 
Mr. SExAUER. Perhaps I am not very good in doping out the 
various phases of it, but my understanding of the bill is that it is to 
give agriculture the same protection, both from the standpoint of the 
tariff and from the standpoint of orderly marketing and organization 
that all other industry has. 
Mr. JonEs. I do not see why, then, you should object to any other 
plan that would accomplish the same purpose. 
Mr. SExavER. Perhaps if it accomplished all of those purposes 
that would be true, if it did not take the money out of the Treasury 
to do it. 
Mr. Jonks. What you want is just some plan that will bring the 
farmer in on the tariff and thus give him his opportunity to engage 
in other things besides dairying. 
Mr. SExaveR. Providing he absorbs any losses which occur from 
doing that himself. 
Mr. Joxes. And regardless of what may be the effect on the 
public? 
Mr. Sexaver. The effect on the public— » 
Mr. JonNEs (continuing). So long as they leave you out of it? 
Mr. SExauEeR. The effect on the public will be the same, as far as 
can see. . oo i. 
Mr Jones. And go along, so long as they leave you out of it?