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It is basic in our presentation, as I am sure you have appreciated 

 this difference of opinion. 



Mr. Pace. You understand that the Grange, the co-ops, the Farmers 

 Union, have all come in here and have made recommendations for 

 changes in this act. 



Senator iliken sat here less than 2 weeks ago and stated that the act 

 should be amended in three respects. I do not know of a living human 

 being in this Nation who thinks this is good law as it stands. You 

 know how it was passed. There are a lot of things, well you know 

 you never expected and the Senator never expected it to become the 

 law of this land. 



.It passed the Senate with the idea of coming over here to be re- 

 viewed and go to conference. Many of these things should have been 

 worked out. 



Senator Aiken told me himself that he had left hired labor out of 

 the parity formula because he wanted to give us the privilege of writ- 

 ing it in there. 



Nobody ever expected this bill the day it passed the Senate to be- 

 come the law of this Nation. You know the circumstances on a late 

 Saturday night and early Sunday morning. 



There came a cry from Philadelphia, "We must have something." 



Now they have something they wish to goodness they could get 

 rid of. I say in final conclusion that any man who comes before 

 this committee and says he is against great controls on agriculture — 

 please understand, I am trying to be kind — anybody who saj's he is 

 against the control of the agriculture of this Nation and will read 

 the hearings of this committee — where the Solicitor of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture testified for 2 weeks giving the interpretations 

 of the controls that are in this bill — cannot reconcile the statement 

 with his support of this act. 



Everything the Secretary of Agriculture asked for is in this act 

 except the 1,800 units. Yet we hear your great organization, the 

 Grange, the farmer co-ops say "We do not want so much control of 

 agriculture." 



Yet unless you or someone agrees to stop it, there will be put on the 

 farmers of this Nation on the first day of January the greatest con- 

 trol measure ever conceived by man and which every Member of Con- 

 gress admits he had no comprehension was in there when it was 

 passed. There must be some ground here on which we can get 

 together. 



Mr. CooLET. Mr. Pace, if it is put on the necks of the farmers it will 

 turn out to be a collar filled with thorns because it will absolutely 

 wreck the agriculture of this country. 



I think we know that if we know anything. 



Mr. Pace. Are there any questions ? 



If not, we thank you very much, Mr. Kline. We are greatly in- 

 debted to you. I hope this hearing will be beneficial to all of us. 

 I hope in your further consideration, you will find some common 

 ground where all these diversities of opinion may be reconciled. 



Mr. KiXE. Thank you, sir. sincerely. 



Mr. Pace. We have two distinguished gentlemen here. 



It is the pleasure of the committee to hear now from one of whom 

 I am personally very proud, a leader of the farmers in my State, 



