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

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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

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF “You knew he would veto it. Why did you pass a bill that you knew he would veto?’ Mr. Gray. The alternative is for Congress to pass some bill which the farmers do not want and which might be repugnant to them. Mr. WiLriams of Illinois. If you have that feeling, that you have to have this or nothing, of course you will get nothing, and there are a great many people in the country who would like to have nothing. Mr. Apkins. Let me say this. I put up as good an argument as I knew how in the House for this proposition. Mr. Gray. You made a good speech, Congressman, in favor of this bill. Mr. Apkins. So far as I was concerned, I was willing to do all I could for the bill. I am giving you this preliminary history before I put my question. The reaction I got from that speech surprised me, from our own friends who heard the speech and those who read it. I sent it the next morning to every Member of the House and the Senate. But what surprised me at that time was, in talking with a number of fellows that came in one after the other, this is what they all said: “My God, you are not going to put us up against the equalization fee again?” Now a good many farmers are going to say, “You hnew the President would veto that.” That convinced me that if we reported this bill out to the House that they will take the equalization fee out in the Committee of the Whole. I think I am in a position, by reason of having put up the strong argument that I did in favor of the bill, and by reason of the reaction that I have got on that proposition, and perhaps in as good position as any other Member of Congress, because of my record—and it speaks for itself, to ask you this question, as a representative of the createst farm organization in the world— Mr. Gray. Thank you. Mr. Apkins. I am saying that advisedly. The farmers writing me (which correspondence I expect to put in the record), some of the most conservative men we have got, say “Get us some farm bill, if necessary, without the equalization fee.” Now if we should bring this bill out, on the suggestion of the best thought of the farm organizations’ representatives in Washington, with a set-up of $400,000,000, with a board with all these powers and functions as suggested here, and can get that set up and start in—it will take some little time to operate, and I am no less of the opinion that the equalization fee is necessary to maintain it than I have been, but when a man goes so far as to say, pass some law that would at least give the farmer some hope, and winds up his letter by saying, “I hope you have a pleasant time in Washington, Charley, but (laughter) to be frank with you, I have little hope of Congress doing anything for the farmer.” Mr. Gray. We have great hope. - Mr. Apkins. I am talking about the fellows I am representing. Now, then, with this bill passed as you suggest, representing the full deliberation of practically all of the farm organizations of the coun- try, it is going to take some time to organize; and with this board provided, as we suggest, with $400,000,000 behind it as a fund, it certainly will have some effect on the market and at least give the farmers some hove. We still reserve the right and still have the 37

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