Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934515

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232102

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 4

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 255 - 297

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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264 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. Aswers. I have; that is as far as I will go. 1 will not go as far as the equalization fee. May 1 interrupt you there just a minute? [ can show you why my bill is better without the fee than the McNary- Haugen bill. It is not the kind of a bill I would write, but it is the best thing we can get now. I am for legislation of some kind. I will not vote for a bill'that I know can not become a law. Mr. KiLgorE. But you would like to get the very best bill you could—you would like to get the very best bill to be had? Mr. AsweLL. It is not a debatable question. Mr. KiLcore. That is what you stand for, the very best bill you can possibly get. Mr. AsweLL. I repeat my statement; it is clear to everybody who is at all informed that you can not pass a bill with the fee in it. That is perfectly clear, that you can not get it into law. Mr. KincaeLoE. Why can you not, Doctor? Mr. AswerL. 1 think it is a childish question to ask me why. Because you can not get it signed by the President. Mr. KINcHELOE. 1f you can get a two-thirds vote we can pass it over the President’s veto. Mr. AsweLL. You do not have the two-thirds vote. Mr. KiLcore. May I tell you this little story? Mr. AswerL. No; I want to tell you one first. Ixcuse me for referring to my own experience. A year ago and a little over I was informed that the tenants on my little farm had the cotton but the price was so low they could not pay their debts. I telegraphed a triend of mine to buy the crop at a cent a pound above the market price that day—gave them a bonus of 1 cent—put it in the warehouse and took a chance: this is really what I believe these boards could do. He made a mistake in interpreting my telegram. Good middling that day was worth 11 cents a pound. So he paid 12 cents all around. But some of it was low ordinary, when I got down there and looked at it. He paid as high as 314 cents a pound that day more than the market price on some of it. [ put it in the warehouse and paid storage and insurance, and the food came on and I got busy with the flood and neglected my own affairs. I left word with my friend that when it got high enough to pay out to sell it; and I lost $7.32 on the whole transaction. That 18 what I want the board to do. That is a little example, a very small thing, but the whole cotton crop can be handled just that way, without any fee. Mr. Kircore. I feel extremely hopeful, Doctor Aswell. There was a Jew who went out to a gentile to solicit a contribution for his church. Mr. AsweLL. I have heard that. . Mr. Kircore. And he asked him for a hundred dollars. The gentile gave him $500, and the Jew said, “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” I think, Doctor Aswell is almost persuaded to become a McNary-Haugenite. Mr. AsweLL. 1 am, if you will cut the fee out. Mr QLARKE. Let me read something just to strengthen his faith. Mr. AsweLL. Whose faith are you going to strengthen? Mr. CLarkE. Under the President’s veto—— Mr. AsweLL. Whose faith are you trying to strengthen?

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