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ticular committee; and I can think of no more delightful subject 
upon which to hear a valedictory from this very charming valedic- 
torian than a discussion of the debenture plan by Hon. Tom Con- 
nally of Texas. [Apvlause.] 
STATEMENT OF HON. TOM CONNALLY, REPRESENTATIVE IN 
CONGRESS FROM TEE STATE OF TEXAS 
Mr. ConnarrLy. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, 
I thank you for your indulgence for just a few minutes and for this 
Ketcham, for giving me this opportunity to make a few observations 
sense of the term anywhere. I hove to be around these parts for a 
long while yet. 
Mr. Harr. In higher degree. 
Mr. Connarry. I thank the gentleman from Michigan, Mr. 
Ketcham, for giving me this opportunity to make a few observations 
in reference to agricultural legislation. 
Probably most of you know I voted against the McNary-Haugen 
bill. I have been abused by many cooperative representatives here 
who are drawing pretty handsome salaries. But I have been trying 
to vote for the farmer, whether he belonged to a cooperative organiza- 
tion or not; and what I wanted to suggest to the committee this 
morning is that it seems to me as a Member of Congress that 1t is 
about time for this committee and for the Congress to quit fooling 
the farmer and really pass some practical measure that stands some 
chance of becoming a law. 
We know when the Haugen bill was up before a lot of gentlemen 
said that the President would veto it; a great many others just as 
solemnly, who had been down and eaten some corn cakes with the 
President a few mornings, were just as sure he was going to approve 
it. It was easy for those who voted either way to console themselves. 
But we know now that he did veto it and we know now that if he 
did have the nerve to veto it once he has got nerve enough to veto 
it again. It would be very easy for us to come along and say, “ We 
will have the McNary-Haugen bill or nothing, and we will take it 
over and put it on the President’s doorstep and let him veto it if he 
wants to.” That will get you some farmer votes probably; it will 
get you the loyal devotion of some cooperatives, and a lot of them 
that do not understand the situation will still vote for you. But for 
the farmer who is on the farm that really wants some action, that 
1s not going to get you very far as soon as he finds out the truth about 
the thing. That is what the “co-ops” did last year. They de- 
manded the Haugen bill or nothing and they got nothing. 
I have been down mixing among the farmers. They are not fools; 
they are not all being fooled by these maneuvers of political farmers 
up here in Washington. There is a whole lot of difference between a 
high-salaried lobbyist, whose job will play out as soon as real relief 
ts Franted, and the farmer back home who works on the farm with 
I know something about farming. I have got a farm myself; my 
Wits Ss got a farm; and I have been on that farm this fall and up 
N pr ety recently terracing it and looking after it and trying to put 
and to make it productive. You will not fool those