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:: Further statement of Chester H. Gray, Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation

Collection:: Economics Books

32 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. Gray. No; it was not agreed on in convention, but in con- ference. Mr. KincaeLoe. Well, at whose suggestion? Mr. Gray. At no one particular person’s suggestion. Mr. KiNncHELOE. Somebody made the suggestion or you would never had used this language. Mr. Gray. It was the result of experience. Mr. KincaeLoE. Well, how do you mean—experience? Mr. Gray. The difficulty of getting the bill through and enacted into law with that provision in it. Mr. KincHELOE. So, then, your major reason for it was because if the original provision was in it it would not meet the approval of the President. Mr. Gray. It might not. We don’t know. Mr. KINCcHELOE. I sav, was that the major reason? Mr. Gray. I suspect it was. That might have been the major reason. Mr. KiNCHELOE. You were there? Mr. Gray. We want this kind of legislation enacted into law, and if we are going to get a presidential veto on that particular thing, by giving the advisory councils a little bit more authoritative power, why not rewrite the bill, refine the measure so that that obstruction can be removed. Mr. KincueLOE. Then what about the equalization proposition. Do you think the President is going to sign this bill if it passes? Mr. Gray. I have no authority to say. Mr. KincEELOE. You will encounter more obstruction in that equalization fee than you would in the board proposition. Mr. Gray. No; I think we would have more trouble in regard to the board feature than we would have with some of the other features. Mr. KincrELOE. Where did you get that information? From the President? Mr. Gray. From the long letter he appended to his veto message, from the Attorney General in which I presume he subscrbed to avery word, or he would not have appended it. Mr. KincaELoE. He also raised the constitutional objection to the equalization fee. Mr. Gray. Yes; but we are not giving way to tnose objections. Mr. KincuerLoe. That is just exactly what I am trying to find out. Mr. Gray. We can alter the bill in some regards, as I mentioned vesterday. There are 10 objections which are alleged against the bill as it passed the last session. In the revision of this bill we have removed eight of those. We are not going to remove that objection which resides in the equalization fee, because that is the only device that any of us have ever vet been able to evolve which avoids tae farmer being made a pensioner of the Federal Treasury. Mr. KincueLor. Well, what I am getting at is this. You admit, or you did awhile ago, or yesterday, that the provision relating to the appointment of the Farm Board in the bill that we passed was a much better provision than you have got in the present Haugen bill. Mr. Gray. In regard to the Federal Farm Board? Mr. KincHELOE. Yes, when the farmers have something to say about it. I sav vou admit that that provision that was in the bill

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