AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

Mr. WiLLiamMs. You would rather have a veto than to have legis-
lation would you?

Mr. CLAGUE. Not exactly that, no.

Mr. mains, That is what it means.

r. CLaGUE. Let it be acted upon and if i
we will do the next best thing. P © ean not become law

Mr. Apxkins. That is what Mr. Williams meant when he spoke
about several members having talked to him.

Mr. WirLiamMs. No; I mean just what I said, that Members of the
Minnesota House delegation—I am not going to put names in the
record—a number of them have stated to me that they were in favor
of reporting this bill without the equalization fee. That has been
their position up to within the last three or four days—that has been
the position of a number of the members of the House delegation.
I do not include Mr. Kvale and Mr. Selvig in that.

Mr. KvaLe. I think names ought to be specified, particularly
because some of these gentlemen have always stood for the McNary-
Haugen bill with the equalization fee.

Mr. WirLiams. That is what I said, that some of the House
Members from Minnesota have always considered that the equaliza-
tion fee ought to be in the bill.

Mr. FurLow. I have never requested any member of this commit-
tee to report out the bill without the equalization fee, and I want
the record to show that I am in favor of the bill with the equalization
fee. That has been my stand ever since I have been in Congress.

Mr. Maas. I wish to state that I not only have never requested
any member of this committee to report out the bill without the
equalization fee but that I have repeatedly urged that the bill be
brought out with the equalization fee included. This has been my
stand, without change, since I have been a Member of Congress.

Mr. Loomis. I am appearing here as secretary of the National
Dairy Union to ask the committee to fix the date at the earliest
possible moment when we may have a brief hearing on H. R. 10598.
We wish to present a very brief amendment that has been agreed
to by the dairy interests of the United States. It will not take us
over half an hour.

The CHARMAN. We have a number of special orders. We could
not take your proposition up until we get through with the special
orders.

Mr. Looumrs. Very well, if you will take it up when you get through
with your special orders.

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STATEMENT OF HON. G. N. HAUGEN
Mr. Havcex. For the information of the committee and the House
[ desire to insert in the hearings, at this time, certain tables furnished
by the Department of Agriculture, indicating the production and net
exports of wheat, corn, beef (slaughtered), lard, butter, and tables
indicating the world price and domestic price, the tariff, and the net
profit to the producers had the proposed bill been in operation for
the years 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927, also tables showing domestic
and world production of wheat, corn, cotton, rice, tobacco, lard, beef
and veal, butter, and cattle. The net profit to the producers has been
ralenlated on the assumption of the whole crop being marketed. no