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

Document type:: Volume

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. William C. Lankford, representative in Congress from the state of Georgia

Collection:: Economics Books

6536 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. Jones. Unfortunately, he could do that, if he could get any- thing like approximately a hundred per cent, law or no law. If you got 97 per cent in you would not need any law. | Mr. Lankrorp. This is true, that if it worked at all the Govern- ment could not lose any money on it and then, again, in a little while the farmer would be absolutely independent; he would be absolutely master of his own fate and his own destiny. The bill has another idea, Mr. Jones, and I will come to you, Mr. Menges, later; I see your hand up for a question. 5 There is another feature of the bill which I think is really worth while, and that is this: It has a complete referendum in it. If you pass the McNary-Haugen bill the farmer may say he does not want it. If you pass my bill it enables 75 per cent of the producers of commodities to sign contracts and organize. Suppose they do not do it? No harm has been done. Suppose they sign up 75 per cent, and then decide they do not want it next year; it goes out of force and out of effect; they determine whether the bill shall go into operation; they determine whether 75 per cent under the bill shall begin operations as to any particular commodity. They might decide they want to operate as to cotton and let the McNary-Haugen bill apply as to wheat and other commodities. If they liked it they would get the additional signers; if they did not like it they would not get new signers and they would repeal the bill. That is a most perfect referendum, not to the voters of the country, but to the producers themselves; not to a majority, but to three-fourths of them. If the bill is not good it would not go into effect; if it is good and they keep it in effect it provides for the control of production and marketing, not by force, not by low prices, not by an equaliza- tion fee, not by anything else, but by a contract entered into mutually for the farmers themselves. All right, Mr. Menges I will be glad to yield to you. Mr. MENGEs. Your bill would not go into operation then until 75 per cent of the farmers had signed your contract? Mr. LankrorD. It would not. Let me say here, gentlemen of the committee, I have done this: Not only have I introduced this bill with this contract idea in it, but I have modified and reintroduced some of the other bills. I took the McNary-Haugen bill and I made it “Title I”; I took my bill and made it “Title IL"; reintroduced the two fastened together as one bill. This committee can pass the two— the McNary-Haugen bill as Title I and my bill as Title II. Let them go into effect as far as being the law of the land is concerned. But suppose the cotton growers in Gerogia and in Texas, in the district of Mr. Jones and in the district I represent—— Mr. Jones. Why did you not introduce the debenture bill as “Title I117°? Mr. Lankrorp. Iam getting to that a little later. I will take care of your bill also just as much as I did the others. Suppose the two pass; suppose that the cotton growers in Georgia say, ‘‘ We will sign up; we will take the provisions of bill 77,” and they sign up and begin to operate under that. They would not need the terms of the McNary- Haugen bill. Suppose the people out West and the farmers there decide they want to have the McNary-Haugen bill and they do not care to

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