716 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

Mr. ANDRESEN. Would not the answer to your statement be that
we must go ahead and repeal the tariff law permitting wheat to be
imported in bond?
Mr. KincaeELOE. Absolutely so; if you want to help the farmer and
make that big miller use American wheat. The only reason we go
and import wheat from Canada is that it is hard wheat. We can
grow enough hard wheat in the United States to meet that demand,
but instead of doing it you relieve the miller from paying into the
Treasury the tariff of 42 cents, getting the 11,000,000 bushels of
wheat last year that they ought to have got from the American
farmer.
Mr. ANDRESEN. It is much more for other years.
Mr. KincaELOE. Sure; I have got it from 1922.
Mr. Swank. I want to ask Mr. Kincheloe a question. He showed
that the millers get nearly all the benefit of this tariff on wheat.
The representative of the millers appeared here for three days, 1
think, in opposition to the Haugen bill—
Mr. ANDRESEN. Is not that correct?
Mr. ASWELL. Yes.
Mr. Swank. He is representing the millers.
Mr. AsweLL. He was against the Haugen bill.
Mr. Swank. I say, against the Haugen bill and against the debenture
 bill.
Mr. KinceeLoE. They are satisfied with the tariff on wheat.
The CuarrMAN. 1 think we all agree that it ought to be amended.
Mr. KiNcEELOE. I am trying to show what a great ‘benefit’
this has been to the American farmer of having a tariff of 42 cents
on wheat.
The CuAIRMAN. Mr. Lankford, the committee will be glad to
hear vou.

STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM C. LANKFORD, REPRESENTATIVE
IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF GEORGIA

Mr. Lankrorp. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee,
[ have attended all these hearings before this committee, which have
lasted for six weeks or longer, and wish to state that I have enjoyed
them very much. I have received much very valuable information
from the various witnesses who have appeared here, and from the
suggestions and questions of members of the committee. I have
ascertained the slant of various people on this great problem of farm
legislation. There is one thing, though, that I knew before I came
to these hearings, and my information has not been strengthened in
that respect; that is, that the American farmer really needs some
helpful legislation. There is a real farm problem to be solved by
this Comgress, some future Congress, or left unsolved.
[ sympathize with the farmer. 1 was born on a farm, and can
truthfully say I was born ‘way down South in Dixie,” “way down
upon the Suwanee River,” in a country log house, in a Georgia
cotton field, at ‘home, sweet home.”
Mr. CLarkE. On Sunday?
Mr. LANKFORD. 1 am not sure whether I was born on Sunday or
not. But I was born on the 7th day of the month, 1877, and seven
has been a lucky number with me from that day to this. I will say