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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
these amendments out so that each member of this committee might 
have a copy. We are distributing copies now for our discussion in 
connection with section 4. 
I believe, if my memory runs correctly, we had gotten down to 
and had read yesterday, paragraph D, on the first page of this type- 
written document, which we have distributed. 
(The material referred to is as follows:) 
SUGGESTED AMENDMENT TO COMMODITY ADVISORY COUNCILS ON PAGE 5, SECTION 4, 
H. R. 7940 
1. Strike out the word ‘‘commodity”’ line 18, making the title read “advisory 
councils.” 
2. Amend section 4 to make it read as follows: 
“Sec. 4. (a) The board is hereby authorized and directed to create an advisory 
council of seven members, fairly representative of the producers in each Federal 
land-bank district. Members of each council shall be selected annually at a 
convention called to meet at such time and place as the board designates by 
proper notice sent to the farm organizations and cooperative associations in the 
district eligible to participate in such convention. Members of each council 
shall serve without salary, but may be paid by the board a per diem compensa~ 
tion not exceeding $20 for attending meetings of the council and for time devoted 
to other business of the council and authorized by the board. _ Each council 
member shall be paid by the board his necessary traveling expenses to and from 
meetings of the council and his expenses incurred for subsistence, or per diem 
allowance in lieu thereof, within the limitations prescribed by law, while engaged 
upon the business of the council. Each advisory council shall be designated by 
the number of Federal land-bank district it représents. 
““(b) Each advisory council shall meet as soon as practicable after its selection 
at a time and place designated by the board and select a chairman and secretary. 
“(¢) Each advisory council shall meet thereafter at least twice in each year 
at a time and place designated by the chairman, or upon call of a majority of 
its members at a time and place designated in the call, notice of such call being 
sent by registered mail at least ten days before the date of the meeting. 
““(d) Each advisory council shall have power, by itself or through its officers, 
(1) to confer directly with the board, to call for information from it, or to make 
oral or written representations to it, concerning matters within the jurisdiction 
of the board and relating to the agricultural commodities produced in the dis- 
trict, including the amount and method of collection of the equalization fee, 
and (2) to cooperate with the board in advising the producers through their 
organizations or otherwise in the development of suitable programs of planting 
or breeding in order to secure the maximum benefits under this act.” 
3. Amend section 7, on page 9, so that it will conform to the changes made in 
section 4, and will read as follows: 
“Sec. 7. (a) When the advisory councils in districts which in the aggregate 
represent more than 50 per cent of any commodity, or when a substantial number 
of cooperative associations or other organizations of producers of the commodity 
in such districts favor the full cooperation of the board in the marketing of the 
surplus of the commodity; and whenever the board finds— 
“First. That there is or may be during the ensuing year a surplus above the 
requirements for the orderly marketing of any agricultural commodity or above 
the domestic requirements for such commodity. 
“Second. That the durability, the conditions of preparation, processing, and 
preserving, and the methods of marketing of the commodity are such that the 
commodity is adapted to marketing as authorized by this section ’ 
Mr. Gray. The third point of amendment which we desire to call 
fo your attention in regard to section 4 will be to amend section 7 on 
page 9 of the bill as printed. 
Mr. Apkins (interposing). Mr. Gray, before you leave that entirely 
[ want to ask you just one question. 
As the bill stands now, 1t provides, as I remember, the advisory 
councils shall be commodity councils, selected from men representing 
the various commodities