Show 8 lm LEGISLATION lA lION ON N NA A AGRICULTURE RI PROPOSED American Farm Bureau Fed Federation Federation Federation Outlines Outlines' Program for Congress s WASHINGTOn w April April Repeat Repeal Repeal ot oi the guaranty section of f the transportation to tion act reduction in ra railroad rate equal protection for agriculture under under under un un- un- un der the tarl tariff and adequate credit fa facilities facilities fa- fa duties for agriculture was announced I today as th the legislative program which L I LL the American farm bureau federation L I will recommend to congress congress as an aid to farmers The Th program was formulated formulated formu formu- hated by the executive co committee of oX the federation after a two weeks' weeks conference conference con cor- ference here Strong trong opposition was expressed to any sal sales s tax to repeal of the excess profits tax and to any tariff on lumber lumber lum lurn- b ber r and fertilizer Another recommendation dation tion proposed the submission n of a constitutional amendment prohibiting the tIle issuing of all aft ta free tax free securities as more than than in Securities se securities se- se now escape a federal tax The federation reaffirmed its stand tand for packer regulation vested ested In the de- de de department department of of agriculture and opposition to any federal excise tax on land hand The attention of congress was was called to the important and differing factors fac- fac tors affecting food products from the I American farm in Jn their relationship to imports of like products ts from foreign countries in considering the labor cost in making up the tarl tariff law Attention Attention Attention At At- of congress also alo was directed to the center of food tood production of the United States as being leing somewhere somewhere somewhere some where in the Mississippi valley valler while the center of consumption is in the populous areas of the East many hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of miles away Ocean freight r rates tes from competing countries to the consuming centers were declared to be much lower than are the exorbitant and increasing fr freight ight rates from our farms to our own consumers I Announcement was made that a committee com corn consisting of John Brown In Indiana Indiana In- In i diana lana V. V W. W G. G Jamison Colorado and Chester H. H Gray Missouri had been named to study the Muscle Shoals Alabama nitrate te project The committee commit commit- tee will hire engineers for tor the work and report their findings to the executive executive tive tl committee |