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

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF {1 a farm bill carrying that provision was utterly impossible. That if the friends of farm relief stood for that program and for nothing else it meant no legislation at this session of the Congress, and that I proposed as a member of this committee to exert my efforts to have reported out of this committee the very best possible farm bill we could pass through Congress and get signed by the President. Later in the dav I received the following teleeram from Mr. Smith: Confirming conversation over telephone and speaking for our members throughout the State as well as those in your district we urge your continued active support of the essential principles of legislation contained in the Haugen bill. The equalization fee is the one outstanding essential of this legislation. It is our firm belief that no other proposal vet advanced offers genuine oppor- tunitv for the stabilization of agriculture. [ have very great respect for Mr. Earl C. Smith and the fine organization for which he speaks and I regret exceedingly that my sense of duty to the people of my district and to American agriculture will not permit me to follow his judgment in this matter. That would mean the defeat of all farm relief legislation for at least two years. I will not join in a program of that kind. In my opinion it would be a mistake amounting to a crime against agriculture for this Congress not to pass, and pass now, the best possible remedial farm legislation. If it is not altogether what we want, if it is not as good and far reaching as we may think some other form of legislation would be, we can certainly at a future date and in future Congresses amend, improve, and strengthen it. It would certainly not be a more difficult task to amend what actual experience might prove to be defects in an existing Statute, than it would be to write a new one. We can make a start in the right direction now, a most helpful start in my judgment, if we do not throw away the opportunity by stubbornly insisting on a program that every sensible man knows can not be attained at this time. [ make this statement so that no one may misunderstand my posi- tion as a member of the committee and also hoping it may be the means of saving some one here in Washington the useless expense of wiring messages from here to Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois for the purpose of bringing pressure to bear upon me to do a thing I do not intend to do. The CuarrMan. Without objection the committee will stand in recess at this time until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. (At 11.55 o'clock a. m. the hearing was adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow.) House oF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Thursday, January 19, 1928. The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o’clock a. m., in the committee hearing room, House Office Building, Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen presiding. Present: Messrs Haugen (chairman), Purnell, Williams (of Illinois), Thompson, Ketcham, Hall, Pratt, Fort, Menges, Andresen, Adkins, Clark, Aswell, Kincheloe, Jones. Swank, Fulmer Rubey, and Mec- Sweenev.

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