Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831932598

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232069

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 1

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III, 69 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Chester H. Gray, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. KercEaM. You are not surrendering that, are you? Mr. Gray. No; we are not surrendering the fee at all. Weare endeavoring to safeguard this revolving fund; the fundamental prin- ciple connected with this, we have been supporting for five years. Mr. Jones. I understand thoroughly your position with reference to the major point, but I was wondering if you are going to yield this other point. If you are trying to meet the objections of the President do you think you will satisfy him by yielding what he seems to regard as a minor point and insisting on what the President would regard the major point? a Mr. Kercaam. That is part of the measure, as I understand Mr. ray. Mr. Gray. Yes. I was starting to explain awhile ago that our suggested amendment, in regard to the advisory council, gives to those councils considerably more contact with the administration of the Federal Farm Board, and to say that it seems to some that the make-up of the board, as now written in H. R. 7940, is too severe from this point of view—that the producer is too far removed from his board and that the make-up of the advisory council should be given more authority. Mr. Jones. What was your suggestion? Mr. Gray. Before I start reading it, I confess, Mr. Thompson, and members of the committee, that in my discussion 1 have only been allottea certain grounds to cover, and in doing so I might encroach upon what has been allotted the gentlemen who follow me, and I want to apologize to those gentlemen if I cover any ground which they are holding in their minds to cover; but, I presume if two or three cover the same ground or particular projects, it will not be time wasted, because it will give the committee different slants on the same proposition. In reading section 4, as is hera suggested in an amendment, I do not present it in its final shape 1s presented to you as a suggested amendment, only, of section - Lt reads as follows: The board is hereby authorized and directed——— Mr. KercEAM. You mean this is a substitute for section 4? Mr. Gray. The amendments are changes to be made in section : and which you will notice as I read it by comparison to the printed Mr. Kercaam. You are not reading beginning with section 4, subsection A? Mr. Gray. No. I am skipping the first four lines of section 4 and commencing in the middle of line 22. [Reading] The board is hereby authorized and directed to create an advisory council of seven members fairly representative of the producers in each Federal loan bank district. Members of each council shall be selected annually at a convention called to meet at such time and place as the board designates by proper notice sent to the farm organizations and cooperative associations in the district eligible to participate in such convention. Members of each council shall cerve without salary but may be paid by the board per diem compensation not exceeding $20 for attending meetings of the council and for time devoted to other business of the council and authorized by the board. Each council member shall be paid by the board his necessary traveling expenses to and from meetings of the council and his expenses incurred for subsistence, or per diem allowance in lieu thereof, within the limitations prescribed by law, while engaged upon the business of the council. Each advisory council shall be designated bv the number of the Federal land bank district it represents.

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