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Show HOOVER PROBE ISSUGG EST E D ICR ETA R Y DOMINATES THE AORIULTURAL SECTION . BAYS MR. PEEK Conu'eanonal Investigation of Ac. - tlvlties In Agricultural Matter la Asked; Strong Charges Are Made Wa.iMnijt.oM. Appearing before tha house agricultural committee, ; Ceo. N. !-k , president of the Amw- j lrf.n council of uifricuHurc, entered a ; roiitr-nt over what he termed the domination dom-ination of American agriculture by f-Yrntiuy Hoover of the commerce !rp;.nm-nt. "Tha n-rommendatious of the pres- Merit' i utfricultural conference, the 1 wiUie. sill 1 1, "contained nothing : which had not already been formu- ! ,'ated by Mr. Hoover and he quoted Mr. Hoover as having saiil the function func-tion of the department of agriculture Bhoul.l nd with farm production anil I preparation. Transportation and mar-ktli'.ir, mar-ktli'.ir, he declared, were held by Mr. Hoover to be the functions of his department. de-partment. Proposals of the president's agricultural ag-ricultural conference for a cooperative coopera-tive marketing board were uttacked before tho senate agricultural committee com-mittee by T. A. Naftzer, counsel of the Kansas Wheat Growers' nssocia- 1 tion, us "designed to organize dlstri- butois instead of the producers." "If I wanted to ruin the cooperative wheat campaign in Kansas, this is Just the step I would take," the witness wit-ness declared, Indicating copies of the bills already introduced to carry out the conference's recommendations. Mr. Peek said he believed the president pres-ident was relying on Secretary Hoover Hoov-er and not the secretary of agriculture agricul-ture for agricultural information. Enactment of a revised McNary-Haugen McNary-Haugen farm export measure was ud. vocated by the witness, who also favored fa-vored a special session of congress if necessary to enact remedial farm legislation. leg-islation. A congressional Investigation of tho activities of Secretary Hoover in arglcultural matters was proposed by Mr. Peek. Farm leaders in general, he said, do not approve of Mr. Hoover's agricultural agri-cultural views and will protest against his "domination" of the de partmcnt of agriculture. |