Show president doolidge Co Po olide the llie mcnary haugen bill president coolidge oo lidge aps vetoed he mcnary haugen bill in his message he seaforth set seta forth that the till lill itil int hd of aiding tile the farmer would in injure jure him instead of decre atin inn 9 surpluses surprises it would tend to operate to inc increase tease surpluses that it imposed on the farmers as a whole fees ta tax and expenses for the benefit of the men who grow cotton collon rice tobacco swine or wheal and nothing else the in passing that the bill would also impose hard chips on the consumers and in liddil ion lie he submitted ati an pinion opinion 1 lv Y 11 attorney i ener that the iiii fiduk wes was constitutional unconstitutional un in ini I 1 1 the main wa ba baided bailed difed rn cn I 1 alic h v anet I 1 ha instead of aiding it would the american fat fanner mer n I 1 would ei courage the farm farmer crt to pro 1 crops and thus abandon abr nilon tile the theory of disei diperi i led fait fai gilr mirt g chih is regarded as a the real future for american Ameri cati we lilt tile cn n the message was to the effect that it was a veto for the interest of the fat fai mer the president s veto reids reeds in part as follows no one can dery that tile he pir price 1 ice armany of many farm products afie been but of line with ich the general ge nerol price level for several years reasonable and constructive legislation t to that end v m 0 lid be justified the difficulty with thi this s measure is that it not fr framed aimed to aej the farmer 1 I the measure discriminate de finitely fini telf la products m make aloe up what has been considered a program farming the bill un hoda as of american fa faim i mrva nf the men who grow cotton corn rice ride swine tobacco wheat a and in d nothing else it sig signals nills out a few products I 1 chiefly sectional lonal and propos eq to raise the regardless that th of other farmers would be directly dire etly penalized zed the products product of beef cattle see sheep V dairy products product t poultry ro drets boutwe 8 tiny luy barley ryel rye I 1 flax ate lo 10 ot d it lr lp a hill f for or cert t lilt ddn groups tit ati funnels amen it in i certai certain n see serlona il on 4 tl coun country i ry liet the neasure I 1 bowd fr ill ha by ill 1 I m it t of all lnora ct mhd nd ki it lovis ain of it eri mo dittri cotton spi tinei s or other processors who are operating under claritt act with the bhe board it contemplates that the packets mackeis may I le ie e commissioned by the government to buy huy hogs hoffs enough to create a near scarcity in this country slaughter the hogs sell sel I 1 the pork products abroad at a loss logs and haa hattlie tile losses costs and charges make good out of the pockets of tat faim m t s it seems almost incredible that the a of hogs corn wheat rice rice tobacco and rotten ie alfor id aasc legislative in ill vl liell tilt tu only gersoni per soni i holdre w arc I 1 gual guaranteed an t eed a profit are t alic lic export cl pir acia s cia a bot ion sving e a 8 1 anil I oter ullar gillest pi 01 s 11 clearly this k invoke l of f 1 ie it liscs tho the propos proposed federal boan almost 41 to ti 1 it V P izes iv cs on the de iea ie 1 the chief objection to the till hil is n t that li a t it would not benefit I 1 he farr mer I 1 under the high prices the cotton ac reges Ine interests rests d by 17 1 DO acres in the last five years under the proposed plan ns na prices are driven up ivres sV arbie bie by the artificial dein demand tind created by the purchases of tile the board tee te millions ot do just what hat enor enone 0 else would dr d under tile the circumstances plant and krow grow till all they an in order to tak full foll adv anth blau gt of a situation which they fearis fi ar is only temporary 1 I 1 Ili gher will miika lik n er diksel fiora 1917 to 1925 the co cairn irn wion i irn of pork iner front from fa 5 t rounda t ands to to ar 3 pi pounds bunds tut tin in the fo following apor wl WI on en the price of pork rose by aw 60 fl a hundred ani tb hiir pree p cc afi f I 1 riwe onlo do W ce hundred tin the per anita ion 4 f ork fal off ilmet lm 9 it il ignot is not I 1 ie that lint PIP ro cumers w would 0 uld rebel lif a an high pr delab bately deluce their of that prod t t A board of twelve mer men am wa almost unlimited control 8 and nd cannot only fix the price which the consumers of till the country 9 shall h a p i pay for these commodities there mere can he no appeal from the arbi ar bilbry torp tiec sion of these men after discussing the difficulties in creating a board of this sort which can function in a sat satisfactory wily the president sra an s 8 si i I 1 the bill will not provide a bract practical ic I 1 method till thu agric abric rhural surplus in trying to find ft a solution 30 ution for this ay obit rn of the s tile pies crit nt bill offers no sif lin IL sc tn tnt rely rcy to tn i rici ease I 1 lie pi picie ie pid I 1 the c samer with the inevitable insull of S idne on the part of th farm and dee ing lation on iti the part of nf the he I 1 public it ignores atio net fait thit irn due lorl ion is curbed ply only by leer apted ria act S in ili the end the eq equalization utilization fee und the en entire tile machinery provided hy by the bill under consideration will wili merely aggregate conditions aich which tire ire the cause of the farmers district distrct di p the bill would impose the burden of its support to a larne large degree upon fact rs who would not benefit bp bo it il the prod products acts embraced in the plan are only about ae one third of the total american farm production there ate ae several million farmers who do not produce any of the designated signa ted in the bill in some commodities modi ties such as corn and mill feed the farmers are practically I 1 he sole consumers 1 tia proposed to inc increase increate I 1 the price of corn and mill feed to american fai flumere mete ant therefore the cost to the dal daiya evand tid cattle fred feed ing ine industries whose pro products prod dutts uita nt ate omitted from the hill the effect of tais plan will he continuous continuo uy american f w and to pile up inc I 1 1 I 1 i i I 1 all iphi e be beyond yond the hp word demand ve lve ave air already lt is tre r th Is pi A shall be in the 1 control ont ol 01 of 11 board whose members arc 1 re nominated borni n to the 01 1 Pre president b by Y organizations for bior his ti kne cission to the Siti senate atti for con mation tir that appears to be an anun unconstitutional limitation on the but ant hilarity of the president but far more important th than an this I 1 do not believe that upon aeri oua consideration the farmers of america v tolerate the precedent of a body jf mn men chosen hy y one industry indu atry who acting la in the name of the government shall abrar ge for dorcon con tr acta ct which deter determine mine prices seed i e the buying nd arid selling of commod aties the levying of on thata industry and pay losses on foreign 1 dumping of any sur surplus lAug willie while tile the till bill authorizes autho an appropriation of it falls fails to t octive of teb ioard oaid athin A t lim hint sum and nochi nowhere re denies the liability of the united hinted etca for t addition additional suma of money inthe if the hoard hoit had I 1 liun orm tiling in ill tile cotton crop when prices were pound mid had then dt itt tempted to hold up the lie price on the 1926 crop at aan n level which induced the picking of the whole crop crol the whole would have been spent ind preat great commitments that figure have haf been entered into the president sha sharply ply anti ites the provision of the bill which provides that state slate conventions of tho the producers must be held if all the producers he writes attended I 1 the he convention the eapen ses sea which mini ile be borne by them in would le ie a tremendous addia addit addition ion to the operating ope rutina cost and if the of them dil did load the convention conven lion the deliberant iona woud noti not rp present the voice of the producers pi itis it IB imp ossil ie e to flee s el e hw how h w such conventions eori vent oma dubers could ever be hold held heldtke The bill not say delegate it fuys eoy alv plc duckers them eel Os tithe the fee fea is not logdon laid on the lle ignot I 1 appa app apparent arnt r lit fhe filom ni a crual evading of the acl bayt a cloae study egowa that benlon 10 provides that there hall i be paid tin an equalization fee up on one of ol lowina tile oria tion r sale of such unit there theres is no other way to collect the fee if that stood aone chenall then all the corli coni would be subject to the fee unless apless it were used nied by the raiser but section 15 1 says so unless dunles the corn is processed or still a ld for milling or other processing for formark market etor or is transported by common COMMOD carrier it is not subject to tho the equalization fee hut but the great bulk of it which is al neither ithai processed nor no transported by common barrier is free from the equalization on fee A feeder of cattle who hadtke had the maichi jery to grind or crush his corn bought from other otheir farmers feed feadin iriv purposes would be able to to market his atile free from the t ho aft of f I 1 lie he equal equalization izadi on fee feeder who purchased it hufh h ground feid fei d 1 I 1 e compol in 11 ket his cattle with ith the lidded added cost of tile the equalization fee on ule the corn COM aids of courne would be true wi ai tile the swine mr brevet in rc evet avei the feeder who had been compelled comiel lerl to 0 o no tei ate tile ground feed would pay the fee on that find and when lie he sells his swine awine he pays an f fcc on iff I 1 tr n he pays pay twice in fixing the of tile the exu eau aliza tion fee the b oard board must necessarily estimate I 1 he be crop if either tue estimate of tile the crop or the size of the fund needed should he inac curate so that lint there is is collected many millions more than there is no way to return it ti tf the prA producer ducer suppose there should b an exportable surplus 4 f bushels of wh wheat what at and there is a surplus of but the fund would be almost twice as margeas large as it stio id he be find and the board would have fifty five or sixty millions more than needed of the farmer s money there is ia no way to re tu turn rn it now in of cotton there is provision that any excess that i is accumulated fr tor the liz A y rt J alien fund ELVI be IN producer chis asin 9 in be SU onlO but there Is a no p pla eu in t alfew i i s which loroni provides 68 fa it ft return to th producer of other dihe products the assessment 4 of th fee lk levies s a m a mount amount in ln excess excean of that for arth the stabilization fun f the main eatn policy entire reversal of df what uka heretofore though ibe flolid lo fri stend alad of to a met method hod of orderly marketing which will dispose of products at it proposes ei to tb di dispose e of ohwn in ot 0 loss it runs runa counter to tire principle princ tp of conservation which ch would require p us to produce only anly can cair be b done clone at a profit not to 0 o out still soil and resources what isto is to bogod bo sold atai at a loss to us i s fo for tho benefit of tile the foreign foi efin f or this measure is so long and involved that it is impossible to discuss it without going into details de many of oilier reasons exist why ih ib augha not tobe approved the most de cleive one a that itle it ia not lonal this feature is a in an opinion odthe of the attorney Geri general eral hith herckt ich attached and made a hereof so that I 1 shall not consider the details of that phare of my objection this ts Is not a measure to help cooperative marketing its effect orri tho the crint Is ia to climate the very verp conditions of advant av that now induce firm farmers rs to join together to regulate and their owari that there Is a ral and agricultural problem is keenly appreciated precia ted byall by all inal informed ame d meir inert the evidence iball Is all too convincing tant agriculture has as not been ro re belving eel its fttie sharo share of tho the nationals natio nall income since uie the ward wan parmera Parme manall andl businessmen directly nn n agriculture have anve suffer redl edl andl in many cases still film con kitiona beyond their control ahey alln are entitled to and will haye evem consideration at the hands of the government surely surelda Su a real farm ure must just and arida open the way to aid for all fanneral fanne rai I 1 surely it IL murit not contemplate itin this measure inescapably kols kola that farmers in SAM regions should bo be penal penalized cited for the benefit of those alp ilp 1 i other regions surely it must be aimed to promote the welfare of community at large must be helped and strength strengthened enci to saddle it with unjust unworkable schemes of go governmental vern mental control is to invite disaster wor worse than any that has our farm e era rs many sincere and people have expended a great deall of time ard energy in working out this maksure and are entirely honest and huno honorable rable in thir advocacy of i it t I 1 abua b ii a great regret to tome me that I 1 urn am unable to come to the conclusion that the bill would help agriculture be of benefit to the country and with the 1 lon ion other plans daue haue been proposed in congress for advancement in this recovery which plans offer promise of sound assistance to the farmers wit without hout these chefe timi ites invasions of executive authority this contracting with packers and flour millers and beher manufactures this over production with its inflation and inevitable crash without this indirect pria fixing buying and selling creat ion ion ot of huge bureaucracies they ther are arean in mhd contrary devoted entirely to tile HIP principle of building farmer controlled marketing concerns to handle their problems including occasional cas ional surplus production and applicable coall to all agriculture and nov not i to a minor fracci fraction 0 n I 1 have f frequent r quenta ly urged such legislation I 1 wish again to t renew my recommendation that some such plan bo bb adopted |