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dairy people any special consideration after January 1, 1950, unless 

 it is a part of the long-range program. 



I might say that the Department, to my mind, has been trying to 

 work this out. The only dissatisfaction that I have is that they had 

 to be prodded a little to get them to do it. It was their obligation. 



The thing that I am particularly interested in is having the present 

 law followed. I cannot get myself all hot and bothered about what 

 might be in the Aiken bill, because I know what is in the Aiken bill. 

 The Secretary can set it anywhere from zero to 90 percent and in the 

 case of an emergency can make it a 190 percent. That is rather 

 nebulous as far as I am concerned. I say on the basis of just pure, 

 honest common sense we should follow the law that we have now 

 before we get ourselves all tangled up with some other law. I do 

 hope that the Department will go ahead with the announced policy 

 which will really mean something in the long run when you realize 

 that a quarter of the milk of the United States is produced in Iowa, 

 Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Iowa and Minnesota are suffering more 

 than we in Wisconsin. I think it is not right to have a law and then 

 have a group of people losing from 50 to 70 cents per hundred on their 

 milk. 



I am getting to the point where I do not want to vote for any 

 appropriation. I want them to pay up and I will be more agreeable. 



Mr. Gordon. Mr. Andresen stated a while ago that I was saying 

 nice things about the Commodity Credit Corporation. I will turn to 

 the other side. I am quite in agreement that had it not been for the 

 mtroduction of your bill, Mr. Murray, I doubt very much whether 

 the Secretary of Agriculture would have given us the support prices 

 that we have to the end of this year. 



Mr. Murray. I do not want to take credit for that; others intro- 

 duced the same bill. I do know the groups that have worked for the 

 fulfillment of the law. To me it is a milestone. The recognition of 

 the fact that manufactured dairy products are going to have a base of 

 88/2 percent of their fluid milk content as the support which at least is 

 an approach on the part of the dairy department that they are trying 

 to make an effort. 



I say the first thing to do is to follow the law we have now and let 

 us get that supported according to law. From here on out we will 

 try to work out something. There is no use asking for any more if 

 we cannot get what the law says we can have now. We might as well 

 get that first. 



Mr. HoEVEN. I think the gentleman from Wisconsin will be kind 

 enough to have the record show that the bill mentioned was not 

 only introduced by the gentleman from Wisconsin but on the part of 

 myself and several other Members of Congress. We introduced 

 identical bills to impress upon the Department of Agriculture that it 

 should be doing something about it. 



Mr. Murray. The gentleman from Iowa is most correct. This 

 hasn't been any one man crusade. Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Anderson, and 

 Mr. Andresen of Minnesota and the dairy groups including Mr. 

 Holman have had as much or more to do with this as I have. 



Mr. Andresen. As I understand it, the bill that the gentleman was 

 the author of, and several of us introduced, was simply a bill to direct 

 the Department to carry out the law that had been enacted. 



