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to have the gentleman in charge of the price-support program on 

 prunes come before the committee, too. 



Mr. PoAGE. I did not understand that there was any question of 

 prunes involved in this matter except that Mr. Woolley is supposed 

 to have made some comment about some representatives of the prune 

 industry having been in to see them. If I understood Mr. Watts 

 correctly — and this again illustrates how different people get different 

 impressions — Mr. Watts said that he did not see how prunes were 

 comparable with tung nuts. 



Mr. White. He said that the Department's official had stated that 

 they were against all price supports. I am very much interested in 

 that, because I am beginning to have the faint suspicion that the 

 gentleman in charge of prunes and raisins and other California fruits 

 feels just exactly as Mr. Watts has indicated they do. I am not 

 making that statement, I am merely saying that their activities indi- 

 cate that to me. I shoidd like to have them come along, if you are 

 going to air this matter. 



Mr. PoAGE. I understand that Mr. Woolley is in charge of the 

 program and I am perfectly willing to invite him and such other 

 individuals as the committee cares to invite, Mr. Wliite. Mr. Pace 

 probably will return this afternoon to preside. I am not the chair- 

 man of this connnittee. If it were up to me I would suggest you 

 invite anybody you want to invite. And I suggest that be in the 

 form of an invitation and not with the idea that this committee is 

 insisting upon their attendance. It is merely a matter of explaining 

 their position and I am sure the committee wants to hear them. 

 But we do not want to get too far afield. We are now considering 

 the tung oil situation. Mr. Colmer, it is now 12 o'clock. 



Mr. Colmer. May I interrupt just for a brief statement, Mr. 

 Chairman? 



STATEMENT OF HON. SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, A UNITED STATES 

 SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA 



Mr. Colmer. Mr. Chairman, Senator Holland of Florida is here. 

 I wonder if the committee could hear him briefly at this time. 



Mr. PoAGE. The committee will be pleased to hear Senator Holland. 

 We know of his great interest in agriculture, and he has been before 

 the committee on other occasions, and we are delighted to have him 

 with us. 



Senator Holland. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will only take 

 a very few minutes of your time. 



As the chairman and members of this committee perhaps know, 

 I am serving at this time as a member of the so-called Gillette sub- 

 committee of the Senate Committee on Agriculture which has been 

 conducting hearings not solely on the tung oil situation but on condi- 

 tions affecting both animal and vegetable fats and oils, of which, of 

 course, tung oil is one of the inedible vegetable oils. 



Two very clear and comprehensive statements with reference to 

 tung oil production in Florida, with reference to the activities of the 

 Department of Agriculture in connection with the price program have 

 been prepared for us by Mr. Prichard whom I see sitting here with 

 you. I do not know whether he has submitted in the hearing be- 

 fore this committee those two statements. 



