GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 571 



I for one would never agree that we put the farmers of this Nation 

 and they alone under the domination of a group of business men, un- 

 der the domination, if you please, more and more, of the big farmers 

 of this Nation and say that they alone shall be controlled by this Board, 

 when the things that the farmer buys moves at whatever price the 

 manufacturer decides to fix for them. 



Mr. CooLEY. Will the gentleman yield ? 



Mr. Pace. Yes, Mr. Cooley. 



Mr. CooLET. I just wanted to ask this question : I thought you 

 made the suggestion that the members to be selected from agriculture 

 would have to be apj)roved by the two Committees on Agriculture of 

 the House and the Senate. 



Mr. Goss. Be reviewed by them and recommendations made to the 

 President. The selection, of course, would be made by the President; 

 he would have that authority. 



Mr. CooLEY. The committees would certainly have an opportunity 

 to pass upon the qualifications of those who are going to represent the 

 farmers. 



Mr. Pace. You suggested how many on the board ? 



Mr. Goss. Twenty-four. 



Mr. Pace. I thought you suggested that the committee would have 

 the right to submit recommendations to the President, of their nomi- 

 nation. 



Congress passed an act providing that we would have a Board for 

 the Commodity Credit Corporation, and that it should be nominated 

 by the President. Now, what happened ? It is not a matter of record, 

 and I will let you dispute it if you want to, but the Secretary of 

 Agriculture submitted three names to the President and the President 

 sent them to the Senate and they were confirmed. That is one of the 

 Boards. Then we had the question on the floor of the House yesterday 

 to set up an independent Board for the Commodity Credit Corporation 

 and the House disapproved that and set up a Board to be in Agri- 

 culture. 



We may be able to operate this Government that way, but for my 

 part, after my studies of Government, I have reached this definite 

 conclusion, that there must be power and responsibility in one spot, 

 and if that man does not function according to law and according to 

 the interests of the people under the laws of the Congress then get 

 somebody else. 



I have no objection to setting up 100 boards — in fact, there are 

 100 boards now in the Department of Agriculture, and I do not know 

 of any man who calls upon them for advice any more frequently than 

 does the Secretary of Agriculture, but how we could be expected to 

 set up a board of businessmen to control the farmers of this Nation 

 unless there is a comparable board to control business and labor is 

 beyond me. 



Mr. Goss. Mr. Pace, you have raised three or four different points 

 that I want to touch upon. First, you referred to having full 

 power 



Mr. Pace. You said they had to e approved before the Secretary 

 could act. 



Mr. Goss. That is one, but they could use the devices in the law 

 which Congress provides for that purpose, and what Congress provides 



