GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 677 



Mr. Andresen. As I recall, with the modification which the Secre- 

 tary made in his proposal of April 7, with respect to basic commodities 

 which was to take care of wheat, corn — wheat mider marketing quotas 

 and allotment of acreage — that really continues the present program. 



Mr. WooLLEY. Yes; except we are doing an awful lot of work, on 

 problems that have been discussed before this committee, with respect 

 to cotton and corn, and wheat still remains as one of the major 

 commodities with respect to legislation at which operation will be 

 carried on. 



There are a number of other provisions with respect to the details of 

 the way the program would be operated. But, the Secretary's state- 

 ment, as I recall, was that the basic principles of loans, marketing 

 agreements — marketing quotas and acreage allotments would be 

 patterned for those commodities. 



Mr. Andresen. Yes. Then you are just simply working on a 

 program now; that is what you are doing, to modify the existing 

 formulas? 



Mr. WooLLEY. No; we are not thinking in terms of whether we 

 have a two-price system at this time from that in the act. 



Mr. Andresen. Or the 1,800 units that were allotted to each farm? 



Mr. WooLLEY. That is correct, although the 1,800 units will be in 

 that part of the legislation which we send up here as the suggestion 

 of the Department. 



Mr. Andresen. Well, we have approximately 2 months' time left 

 now. 



Mr. WooLLEY. That is correct. 



Mr, Andresen. Before this session of the Congress will adjourn. 



Mr. Woolley. That is right. 



Mr. Andresen. And certainly we have all got to recognize that if 

 we are going to have an act for 1950 we must do it in this session. 



Mr. Woolley. Yes. 



Mr. Andresen. Have you appeared, or has the Secretary appeared 

 before the Senate Agricultm-e Committee to discuss this proposition? 



Mr. Woolley. The Senate Agriculture Committee, it is my under- 

 standing, has said that they would like to discuss this proposition 

 after it had been put into legislative form. Right at this time, while 

 we are discussing this question here this morning, we have a group of 

 people working in the Department; they worked all day yesterday, 

 they will work all day today, and will work tomorrow and they will 

 work Sunday, and they will work right straight on through trying to 

 reconcile these differences. 



We thought we would be in position by about Tuesday or Wednes- 

 day of next week to have this matter up here with the differences 

 reconciled. 



Mr. Andresen. The Secretary also said, on April 7, that he had a 

 legislative staff working on the same proposition, to get it in legislative 

 form, and now more than a month has gone by since he appeared 

 before the committee. Have they been working on it during this 

 entire time? 



Mr. Woolley. We have been working — the attention of the Secre- 

 tary's office and that of the Production and Marketing Administration 

 has been devoted to the question of working on this legislative pro- 

 posal, as well as the Solicitor's office and the Bm-eau of Agricultural 

 Economics. 



