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available to a man? What if he has it mortgaged and the lien comes 

 due along about crop time? Is it available to him? 



Mr. Bagwell. We do not go into refinements of that character. 



Mr. WooLLEY. I think it can be fairly stated, Mr. Poage, that in 

 contemplation, as far as wheat acreage allotments are concerned, 

 there are no basic, fundamental changes in contemplation at the 

 present time. The only factor that might be in the picture would 

 be some adjustment for war conditions, abnormal things brought 

 about by the war, on which there might have been some question. 

 That would be the only thing I know of that there would be any 

 change on. 



Mr. Pace. Are there any other questions by the committee? 



I think this needs to be said: As you gentlemen know, some members 

 of this committee are very deeply concerned about the administration 

 of Public Law 12 or the War Crops Act. I do not know what the 

 plans of the Department are in the administration of that act as to 

 wheat. 



I am saying this now because I do not want somebody later to 

 come up and say we have done this on wheat and therefore we have 

 to do it on cotton. I want the record to show that for my part — 

 and I think I speak for numerous other members of the committee — 

 it would not be acceptable to us to administer Public Law 12 in the 

 manner heretofore suggested to the effect that' the individual farmer 

 would get only a percentage of credit for war crops. 



I want the record to show that as far as cotton is concerned — the 

 representatives of the wheat areas will have to speak for themselves — 

 we shall insist that Public Law 12 be administered in keeping with its 

 purpose and with its language and in keeping with the statements 

 made on the floor of the House and the Senate by Senator Bankhead 

 in behalf of the Senate committee and by Mr. Flannagan, chairman 

 of this committee. 



We shall insist, as far as cotton is concerned, that the credit be 

 determined on the basis of the farm. If a farmer in good faith reduced 

 his cotton acreage or withheld the production of cotton, having gone 

 out of cotton at the beginning of the war, and not having gone back 

 into cotton by virtue of that fact, that he be given credit for cotton 

 and that his farm will be regarded, during the 3 years in 1945, 1946, 

 and 1947, when he planted war crops, as having been planted in cotton.. 



I was very much disturbed to notice a bill submitted by the Secre- 

 tary that does not even seek to do that. He puts the cotton acreage 

 allotments on the basis of those planted, without saying "or regarded 

 as having been planted." 



Mr. Bagwell. We specifically provide in here that in setting the 

 allotments that will be considered. 



Mr. Pace. You just have one little line in there saying that con- 

 sideration shall be given to Public Law 12. 



Mr. Bagwell. I would like to say that as far as the lawyers are 

 concerned, we fully understand that Public Law 12 must and will be 

 carried out. 



Mr. Pace. You need to go back to about 10 different places and 

 say that cotton planted will include cotton regarded as planted under 

 Public Law 12. The statement I am making is that on behalf of my 

 producers and as chairman of this subcommittee I want it distinctly 

 understood that whatever is being done in the administration of Public 

 Law 12 as to wheat, we will not accept it as a plan on how it should be 



