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

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12 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF The CaamrMaN. Gentlemen, the committee will be in order. Mr. ANxprEsEN. Mr. Chairman, at the conclusion of the hearing yesterday Mr. Gray was on the stand, and he made some statements concerning which I wanted to ask him a few questions, but the time had run out. I would like to have him take the stand for a few minutes now. Mr. TrHomMPsoN. Mr. Chairman, I have been sitting on this com- mittee for the last six years listening to the testimony of these farm bureaus and farm organizations, and I have concluded that the administration is not going to sign a bill with an equalization fee in it. [ want to be put on record here as favoring that kind of bill, but I want a bill that we can pass. I want a bill that the administration will approve. The farmers have got to have something, and we have got to have action. I wish to indorse the statement of Mr. Williams. I indorse his statement in full. I have read it, but I was not here to hear it yesterday. FURTHER STATEMENT OF CHESTER H. GRAY, WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FED- ERATION Mr. ANnprEsEN. Mr. Gray, yesterday my colleague, Mr. Adkins, made a statement, and in answer to his question as to whether or not you favored no legislation during the present session of Congress if we could not pass a bill with the equalization fee in it, you stated that you would rather not have any legislation in this session of Congress, unless you could get a* bill with the equalization fee in it. Is that correct? Mr. Gray. No; not in that way, I think, Mr. Congressman Andresen. Mr. ANDRESEN. Is not that the sum and substance of it? Mr. Grav. I will explain that further a little later, if it is per- missible, Mr. PvryerL. Why not explain it now, while we are on the subject. I am very mucn interested in that myself. I would like to have it clarified. Mr. Gray. AsT understood Congressman Adkins’s question, which was rather a long one, he wanted to know what the best judgment was of the farm organizations affiliated in this endeavor to pass an equalization fee bill relative to what Congress should do this winter, and I answered the question, as I remember it to be, that our best judgment is that the Congress should pass an equalization fee bill. The reason I answer that way is this, Congressman Andresen and members of the committee: You can not expect a farm organization, whether it is in favor of the equalization plan or in favor of some otiier plan, hurriedly to change its position. There is none of us that has authority to change a position of a farm organization which has been arrived at slowly, painfully, throughout years. Take the American Farm Bureau Federation, which specifically I represent. It took as fully two years, as a national group, to come to a concensus of opinion that the equalization fee plan is that which we desire, and it was not until the last resolution adopted in December of last year was passed that.we specifically named the MeN ary-Haugen bill. We have been four or five years oetting to that point.

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