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 63 Mr. AsweLL. Will you stand aside a moment and let me ask a question? The President, during the last Congress, asked his Attorney General for ‘an opinion on the constitutionality of the equalization fee, and the Attorney General definitely and specifically told the President that it was unconstitutional, and the President vetoed it. Now we have the same President and the sane Attorney General. If we put the equalization fee up to the President again how could he sign it without repudiating the Attorney General? The Attorney General would have to get out of the job, would he not? Mr. Gray. Why should we worry about that? Mr. AsweLL. Iam talking about a practical question. I am asking you a practical question. Mr. Gray. And we practically dispose of it by saying that is the other man’s worry. Mr. AsweLL. Then you prefer that we leave in the equalization fee when you know in advance positively that he will not sign it? Mr. Gray. I do not know that in advance, and I have not agreed to that at all. I referred to the land grant colleges here awhile ago. If you go back in the Civil War and post-Civil War period you find that the act setting up the land grant colleges and universities in this Nation went through as strenuous a time to be passed as farm relief is going through. It was vetoed by President Buchanan. It was declared to be, as judgment then ran, unconstitutional because 1t was class legislation. Who in this room believes that now? Mr. Apkins. Mr. Gray, I have followed very closely Mr. Purnell’s questions and your answers to him. If I understand this pinch hitter you are talking about, it is proposed by the suggested amend- ment that at the initiative of some farm group or cooperative the equalization fee might be invoked on some commodity. Is that the purport of 1t? Mr. Gray. Yes, sir. Mr. Apxins. Now, I have thought a great deal of that myself. Here is the thought that comes to me, and I want to know what you think about it, if you have done much thinking about it. With a revolving fund -of $400,000,000 and the board operating with the privilege of some commodity groups of cooperatives invoking the equalization fee, how many of them do you think would do that when they can, with the $400,000,000 so available, have other groups who do not want to impose the equalization fee? Do you think they would do it? Mr. Gray. I was disturbed bv people passing around me. Do what, now, please? Mr. Apkins. Take, for instance, in my neighborhood, where they raise a lot of corn, and they declare an operation period on corn. With this pinch-hitter clause in it that you are speaking about the cooperatives on corn, under that provision, as I understand it, could invoke the use of the equalization fee during their operating period on corn. Now the thought that has come to me about the matter is this. Would the cooperatives and the corn producers ask to have the equalization fee invoked to take care of the loss when they knew that the $400,000,000 was available to the producers of all other commodi- ties without the fee? The thought came to me what Tom Smith would say. Would he not say, “Are not the corn growers entitled to it just as much as the wheat growers. the cotton orowers. or

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