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 33 Mr. PurNeLL. But that is not the point. If we are going to stop right there, and if that is all you are going to say to your farm group, all you are going to say to this committee, that is one thing; but if you are going to go ahead and add to that statement that we can not cet it and we know we can not get it, then does it not necessarily follow that we ought to then concern ourselves with the next impor- tant question, whether or not we will try to get anything. That is the thing that we are up against right here. I repeat that it is a serious and most serious question for us to decide. Mr. Gray. It is very serious. Mr. PurNELL. And it does not mean that any man that supported this bill around this table will change in any degree the sentiment or belief that he has in that measure. Mr. Gray. It is a very serious situation. It is serious for the farm representatives, for the farm groups, and it is serious for the member- ship of this committee. We know that. Mr. PurneLL. I want to say, as I said to you privately, this com- mittee has a very high regard for your judgment and advice and for the advice of your associates, who have come down here and helped us through the evolution of this bill. I was just thinking, while we have been discussing in the last few days this bill, how crude was the very beginning, when we had the old script plan which we pro- posed to work through the post office; how ridiculous it seems to-day. We have gone through a process of evolution here. There is not, of course, anybody here who is going to turn his back on it. But that is not the question. It is not a question of whether we have forsaken the principles of the bill we have been fighting for. It is a fact that we are up against a practical proposition, and that is whether we will go home with something or nothing. Mr. Gray. What is the practical proposition? Mr. PurneLL. Whether we will go home with something or nothing, and with me it is also a question of whether we will o home with something that is worth anything. Mr. Gray. The practical proposition is not whether we will go home with something or nothmg. The practical proposition which is disturbing many people, but not particularly disturbing the farm groups, is whether or not there is going to be a veto of whatever farm relief measure comes out of this Congress. Mr. PrrNELL. You know there will be a veto, don’t vou? Mr. Gray. I do not know it. Mr. Pur~EeLL. There has been some suggestion here by inference, if not by direct statement, that some of the members of the com- mittee have assurance that the President or the administration wants us to do this thing without the equalization fee in it. I have not talked with anybody about it. Nobody has invited me to do one thing or the other. Whatever has been said has come from within this committee. I do not know what the President would do if we sent this bill down to him without the equalization fee in it. I have no knowledge whatever, directly or indirectly. So that it is not a question, as was intimated by somebody, that we are forsaking the principles of our bill and trying to put through something some- body else wants. Nobody has said anything to me about it, and I don’t think anybody has said anything to any.of the members of the committee.

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