Agricultural relief: Export debenture plan

Export debenture plan (Pt. 5)

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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:: 1831934671

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232129

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Title:: Export debenture plan

Volume count:: Pt. 5

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 299 - 427

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Jesse Newsom, of Indiana

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 425 anywhere that favors some other type of legislation. We are con- fident that the export-debenture program can pass Congress, can be- come a law, is constitutional, and will be fair to the producer and consumer alike. It is the only program ever suggested that can be made effective on the 1928 crop, and it is the only program that can be operated in such a manner that all the costs paid by either con- sumer or Government reflect to the pocket of the farmer. We have concluded our testimony. We shall not bother the com- mittee unless we are called before the committee. But we again want to pledge to this committee the effort of an organization that has but one purpose in its program here, namely the bettering of the conditions of the men and women that produce the meal ticket for this great Nation. The CrairMaN. Thank you very much. Mr. Jones. I was just going to ask this question: Did your or- ganization throw any obstacles in the way of the passage of legis- lation last year that was passed by the House? Mr. Taser. We have never directly or indirectly as an organiza- tion, before a committee of the House or Senate, or before the Chief Executive of the United States, placed a single particle of obstacle in the pathway of the bill sponsored by the distinguished gentleman from the State of Towa; and we are entitled to the same considera- tion for the Ketcham bill. Mr. AxpreseN. I want to make a brief statement, if I may, before we adjourn. The CrairmaN. You are through, Mr. Taber ? Mr. Taser. I have closed the case. Mr. AxpreseN. Mr, Chairman, I have been a member of this com- mittee for the past three years, and during that time I have been using my best efforts toward securing farm-relief legislation which will be of real benefit to the American farmer. The farmers are entitled to a square deal at the hands of Congress and the administra- tion, and no time should be wasted to secure the enactment of such legislation. Agriculture needs legislation at once, and I am sick and tired of having the farmer used as a political football during campaigns without any actual accomplishment. All the farm organizations should make another attempt to get together within the course of the next week to unite on a program for farm legislation. They should present a united front upon one plan. and then there will be né question as to final results. I have studied all of the plans presented to the committee and can see some good in-each one. However, the only plan which appears to both directly and indirectly benefit the largest number of farmers in this country, in my opinion, is the present McNary- Haugen bill with the equalization fee in it. It goes to the heart of the problem and should be given opportunity for trial. The majority of farm organizations want this legislation, and the farmers want to pay their own way. They are entitled to have it tried out ander a sympathetic administration. The Haugen bill, now before this committee, has met the majority of objections of the presidential veto. The equalization fee in the bill is to be administered bv a board appointed bv the President. so

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