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:: 1831935244

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232156

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 8

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of hon. Tom D. McKeown, representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 025 determine the constitutionality of the equalization fee. If you pass the bill with the equalization fee in it and the President should for any reason change his mind and approve it, you are going to have litigation then for two years, and what good is it going to be to the country during the two years? If they go off the farms at the same rate they have gone off the last two years, there will not be anybody out there to work. I thank you, gentlemen. That is just my sincere idea about it, and I am just as sincere in my endeavor to get some farm legislation as any representative of any farm bureau or any farmers in this country. Mr. WiLLiams. I take it you are aware of what every farm Mem- ber of Congress is aware, that there are powerful influences operating here in Washington that would prefer a veto to the passage of a farm relief measure. They are looking for a veto; they want it. Mr. McKeown. Mr. Willisms, as sincere as I am about the legis- lation, I can not comprehend that viewpoint. I can not agree with that viewpoint at all. Mr. WiLLiams. I know we do not agree. But I say we have those influences here; they are obvious. Mr. AswieLL. The committee has been told that a dozen times. Mr. McKeown. I am just giving you the viewpoint of a man who wants to do just the best he can, and just can not understand why they prefer none at all. If it were a surrender of principle, I can see why men would contend and stand out for the principle. But we are confronted here with the proposition of either doing something or nothing, and I would not be willing, as earnestly as I am for legis- lation, to stand up and vote for legislation when I know it would be a mere mockery. That is just the situation as I see it. Mr. AsweLL. I will say further that I think at least a hundred Members of Congress who voted for the McNary-Haugen bill with the equalization fee, on both sides of the House, who have talked to me and other members of this committee, and expressed their views that the committee at this time should report out the bill without the equalization fee, and that is the position of a large number of Members of Congress who have sincerely and earnestly supported this legisla- tion. But it is not going to be done. Mr. McKeowx. I have no criticism for those who honestly differ with me. I have no criticism of these representatives of the Farm Bureau who are honestly and sincerely standing up for the interests they represent. But I am talking to you now as a practical proposi- tion of a man who wants to do something for the farmers of this country, and I am just as sure as the chairman of this committee, and the chairman of this committee is just as conscientious in this matter as the rest of us. But you have a condition confronting you now and not a theory, and who can sav which of these methods 1s the best for agriculture? The CrAIRMAN. The committee for four years worked as we have on this bill in an effort to pass the oleomargarine bill. We were told then it was unconstitutional. We said, “Never mind, we will pass it and try it out.” The courts held the oleomargarine bill con- itutional. . hon we took up the packers and stockyards act, our hearings ran through two sessions, and the hearing in one session covere

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