Annual Meeting of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association assert that farmers are 

 entitled to assistance through these 

 three important functions of Govern- 

 ment. We believe such a government 

 program, properly coordinated and fair- 

 ly administered will constitute a sdiind. 

 defensible and permanent solution to the 

 farm problem of the United States. 



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We hereby pledge our assistance and 

 support to the Administration and to 

 Congress in providing ways and means 

 for the early discharge of all obligations 

 of Government to the farmers of the 

 United States who under 193.7 adjust- 

 ment contracts, contracts prior thereto 

 and farmers who under agreement ov 

 contract adjusted wheat acreage in the 

 fall of 19.35. 



IV. 



We see neither equity nor justice in 

 the return to processors of any process- 

 ing taxes due, but unpaid up to the time 

 of the Supreme Court decision invalidat- 

 ing such taxes. It is well known that 

 these taxes were absorbed or paid by 

 producers and consumers. This fact is 

 even established by representative pro- 

 cessors in public statements.and in testi- 

 mony before committees of Congress. 



We, therefore, urge and pledge our 

 support to such appropriate action, by 

 Congress, as may be necessary to cover 

 into the Treasury of the United States 

 all processing taxes due and unpaid up 

 to and including January 6, 193.5. 



The Agricultural Adjustment Act anil 

 Amendments thereto were passed by 

 Congress for the purpose of restoring 

 the purchasing power of agriculture and 

 thereby assisting in the economic recov- 

 ery of the nation. 



We therefore protest and urge the re- 

 peal of the legislation passed by Con- 

 . gress amending said Act permitting 

 manufacturers and handlers of anti-hog 

 cholera serum and hog cholera virus to 

 enter into an agreement with the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture for the purpose of, 

 or having the effect of, increasing costs 



to farmers of such products. Such legis- 

 lation has no" place in the Agricultural 

 .Adjustment Act and is inconsistent with 

 the purpose of the Act as it has the 

 effect of imposing further burdens -upon 

 agriculture. 



VI. 



Maintaining from the beginning that 

 the farm problem is an economic and not 

 a political one. necessitating application 

 of economic and not political remedial 

 measures, the Illinois .Agricultural 

 Association extends its appreciation 

 for the intelligent. unbiased and 

 impartial thought devoted to this 

 problem by the Secretary of .Agricul- 

 ture, the Administrator of the Agricul- 

 tural Adjustment .Act, and by those 

 members of the Senate Committee on Ag- 

 riculture and Forestry and the House 

 Committee on Agriculture who have by 

 word and action treated the farm prob- 

 lem as paramount to any partisan or 

 selfish consideration. 



VII. 



We reaffirm our belief in the possibil- 

 ities of reciprocal trade treaties. We 

 shall, however, favor and support only 

 such treaties as guarantee through their 

 provisions a substantial balance of ad- 

 vantage in the export of agricultural 

 products over other industrial products 

 until such time as the domestic price 

 levels of agricultural products are 

 brought into line with the price levels 

 of industrial products. 



VIII. 



There is now pending in the Congress 

 the Commodity Exchange Bill, which 

 proposes substantial amendment of the 

 present Grain Futures .Act. The pro- 

 posed amendments: 



First — Strengthen the existing regula- 

 tory sections affecting grain exchanges; 



Second — Insure the Capper- Volstead 

 grain marketing cooperatives the right 

 to function as members of such ex- 

 changes in line with sound cooperative 

 practices and free from arbitrary and 

 capricious interference of old line influ- 

 ences. 



Third — The right to determine upon 



hearing the merits of charges of infrac- 

 tion of rules of exchanges before expul- 

 sion. 



Fourth — The right to make delivery of 

 future contract sales upon exchanges 

 from federally licensed warehouses. 



We urge the Board of Directors and 

 officers of this organization to exert 

 every possible effort to secure passage 

 of the Cotnmodity Exchange bill. 



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^ , IX. - • 



There is now pending before the Con- 

 gress proposed amendments to the Pack- 

 ers and Stockyards Act. These proposed 

 amendments would permit the Secretary 

 of Agriculture under his regulatory 

 powers to inquire into the books of rec- 

 ord of the packers on all transaction? 

 involving the purchase of livestock from 

 producers or their agencies. Such in- 

 quiries would fully disclose to the Sec 

 , retary of Agriculture the advantage or 

 disadvantage of any particular type of 

 livestock marketing. We urge upon the 

 Congress the enactment of these pro- 

 posed amendments to the Packers and 

 Stockyards Act during its present ses- 

 sion. 



X. 



We believe in the protection of the 

 producers of butterfat by the imposition 

 of a substantial Federal excise tax upon 

 processors of oleomargarine or similar 

 edible compounds, wherein either in 

 whole or in part such compound include 

 foreign oils or fats. i 



XI. 



Recognizing the wisdom in the govern- 

 ment's retrenchment program which will 

 reduce the total enrollment in national 

 C. C. C. Camps to 300,000 and that this 

 past program has offered work for younj 

 men not able to find a place in society, 

 we believe this work may be coordinated 

 with the Soils Conservation Program 

 now recognized as essential to national 

 well being. 



Since inception of the C. C. C. Camps, 

 Illinois enrollees have been and continue 

 to be, sent out to work in other states 

 and as a result our state has not had 

 its proportional share of these camps, 





Sam Thompson, left, has just told another 

 of his famous stories. A. O. Eckert, center, 

 Sam Sorrells, right. 







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Field Secretary Geo. E. Metzger delivers his A tired delegate from Vermilion worn out 



annual report af the Thursday a. m. session. from sleeping ten in a room. 



