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We are at the present time in the process of trying to have those 

 things come together and make sense from the individual farmer's 

 standpoint, so that when we find the farm where the farmer is working 

 under more than one program in his operation, the farmer would not 

 have the feeling that there were two independent groups working on 

 the problem that had no idea in the world what the other one was 

 talking about. 



There are a lot of basic, fundamental reasons, why you have to 

 have differences between commodities. I think everybody recognizes 

 that. But what we are trying to do is to eliminate the differences 

 which are not basic, or not based on sound, fundamental reasons. So 

 therefore we are not in position this morning to state for the benefit 

 of the committee the position of the Department with respect to this 

 subject, and I regret that there has been that misunderstanding. It 

 is possibly due to one or two things' — - — 



Mr. Pace (interposing). Let me ask you a question, as to this uni- 

 formity in allotment with respect to the three commodities, cotton, 

 corn, and wheat, if the Deparrment has reached the point where 

 that has been pretty well worked out, and whether the delay is putting 

 in legislative language the Secretary's recommendation? 



Mr. WooLEY. No; there are a number of things that are very 

 fundamental that are coming up, and it does not constitute just shaping 

 the language into specific words. There are conflicts of ideas, and 

 it is a question of trying to reconcile the conflicts of ideas, to the extent 

 that they have no justification, and where there are differences that 

 are well founded, it is a question of trying to iron them out. 



IVIr. Pace. Let me say that I do not know where the Secretary 

 gained the impression, but I do know that there is serious doubt as to 

 whether the committee is going to be able, at this late date in Congress, 

 to pass any kind of an over-all bill, that is, for quota regulation with 

 respect to commodities, plus the Secretary's program, plus other 

 needed changes in the legislation. The committee may want "to do 

 that, but just from my own personal view, I see the danger of present- 

 ing any kind of a controversial bill, and you can see where the whole 

 bill would bog down. 



As I see it, entirely independent of the Secretary's recommendation, 

 these quota laws have to be passed at this session, as someone has 

 said, "irregardless." 



Mr. Andresen. You have raised the question that I was going to 

 ask, but is the program which the Department is working up based 

 upon the Secretary's presentation to the committee a month ago? 



Mr. WooLLEY. Yes. The Secretary's proposal envisioned the 

 integration of production adjustment through the device of acreage 

 allotment, marketing quotas' — marketing agreements, and orders, 

 and all of those come to bear on the question of bringing supply into 

 line with demand of and the marketing of commodities, and it was 

 felt you should have the complete story. 



The Solicitor feels very strongly that the marketing quota legislation 

 is completely out of date, in many respects. The marketing agree- 

 ment and orders legislation should be changed to be in harmony with 

 the new statute with respect to support price, standard of parity, and 

 so forth, and that is what we are trying to integrate, put them to- 

 gether so they will make sense as a whole proposition. 



