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Show these are necessarily a part of the basic diet of American consumers. con-sumers. Ray of Hope Those of us supporting sup-porting the president and Benson Ben-son are hopeful that the bill will not be passed by the Senate. And ! should the Senate apnrove the bill, there is the distinct possibility possi-bility of a veto by the president. But what is discouraging to us is that a majority of the House has approved continuation of a program that is not helping present pre-sent the decline of farm income, is heaping up mountainous surpluses sur-pluses and is costing us billions of dollars annually. 201. The party breakdown was 185 Democrats and 21 Republicans Republi-cans against the secretary, 172 Republicans and 29 Democrats for. Our Stand Both Cong. Henry Aldous Dixon and myself voted against the measure which continues con-tinues 90 per cent rigid support prices for agriculture and which repeals Sec. Benson's flexible farm support price program. The 90 per cent rigid price program has been in effect during the past 12 years and under it the agricultural section of our economy econ-omy is the only one that is not benefitting from the general prosperity of the nation. Consumers, Too Not only has the farmer suffered, but consumers consum-ers and taxpayers suffer too. Sec. Benson estimates that the measure mea-sure will add $300,000 per day to government surplus crops storage bills which already are running over $700,000 per day. The cost of the taxpayer support program during the past 12 year3 is in excess of $13 billion. Food Wasted The most damaging dam-aging argument against the rigid price program is the waste it pro motes. Any program that takes money from the housewife's food budget to purchase commodities at a price she cannot afford to pay and then stores them at her expense until they rot is insane. But that is what has been happening hap-pening under the law that was rcenacted by the House. Milk and Butter If the bill passes the Senate and becomes law, it will defeat Sec. Benson's efforts to get more dairy products pro-ducts into consumption and out of storage. Now the secretary has lowered the support price on dairy products to 75 per cent of; parity. The bill passed by the House would require him tt support sup-port the price of milk and other dairy products at 90 per cent of parity the level that maintained maintain-ed before he took office. Basic Nonsense We were also al-so defeated in our attempt to cut peanuts from the list of six crops that the bill would support at 90 per cent. Including peanuts and tobacco as two of six basic com-modities com-modities is a farce. Neither of CONGRESSMAN DAWSONREPORTS Sanity and Surplus Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's plan to return sanity to our farm program was defeated narrowly in the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives by a vote of 206 to |