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Mr. Pace. You say there is a conference to be held on that c^uestion? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. Where and when is it to be hekl? 



Mr. Walker. I believe it is called for Monday and Tuesday of 

 next week. 



Mr. Pace. Who is going to attend that conference? 



Mr. Walker. It is under the A. C. P. 



Mr. Pace. Who is to attend it? The State committeemen? 



Mr. Walker. The State committeemen, of the PMA. 



Mr. Pace. I think it should prove to be one of the most important 

 conferences ever called, and one in which certainly the farmers of this 

 Nation would be greatly interested. 



Mr. W\\lker. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. And do you think we might have the opportunity of 

 having those attending the conference up here to meet with us? 



Mr. WooLLEY. I might mention, Mr. Chairman, that the conference 

 is being held under the jurisdiction of the Agricultural Conservation 

 Programs Branch of the PMA, with a view to making recommenda- 

 tions to the Administrator, which will be passed on to the Secretary, 

 and, such parts as the Department of Agriculture adopts of the 

 group's recommendations will be passed on to the Congress in the 

 form of a statement by the Secretary of Agriculture, with reference 

 to the long-range agricultural program. 



Mr. Pace. I am Avondering, since the conference will not be held 

 until next week, if the Secretary is to include some of the recom- 

 mendations in his statement, and if it will not mean a further delay 

 in the probable date that the Secretary will be in position to present 

 his recommendations to the committee? 



Mr. Andresen. As I understand Mr. Woolley's statement, the 

 Secretary does not need to adopt all of the recommendations that this 

 group may make, but only the part that is approved by the Depart- 

 ment, so we will not have the benefit of all of the recommendations 

 made by the group, which I think we should have. 



Mr. WooLLEY. I am sure, Congressman Andresen, you would not 

 want the Secretary to transmit to you every recommendation that is 

 made by every employee of the Department. 



M. Andresen. No; but I understand these are to be recommenda- 

 tions of the State chairmen. 



Mr. WooLLEY. They are from the State commit'tees. 



Mr. Andresen. These recommendations to which you refer are 

 assumed to speak the views of the county committeemen and others 

 who are administering the program? 



Mr. WooLLEY. No; they do not assume to speak for them. They 

 are the group of people in the Department who are delegated, author- 

 ized by the Secretary of Agriculture, to supervise these programs, 

 under the law, and they make the recommendations based upon their 

 judgments and their studies of the program. 



Mr. Andresen. But they are State chairmen, I understand. 



Mr. WooLLEY. They are State committeemen, not necessarily 

 State chairmen; State PMA committeemen. 



Mr. Andresen. These recommendations are not usually the views 

 of the farmers, but of the committeemen? 



Mr. WooLLEY. They reflect their own views, based upon their 

 contacts with the farmers; they are committeemen themselves. 



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