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of the general situation as it affects the production of vegetables and 

 fats and oils. 



Mr. PoAGE. Senator Holland, you spoke about the subcommittee of 

 which Senator Gillette is chairman and of which you are a member. 

 Senator Gillette has introduced a bill, I believe, which would cover the 

 entire fats and oils situation, which I understand to be similar to a bill 

 which Mr. Granger has introduced in the House, H. R. 4538. This is 

 another and dift'erent approach to the same idea covered in section 22, 

 and that, after determination is made as to the difference between the 

 wholesale price on fats and oils and the parity price, an import fee 

 would be imposed. Is your committee considering legislation along 

 that line? 



Senator Holland. Our hearing is in connection with the compensa- 

 tion bill introduced in the Senate along the line of the House bill you 

 have just suggested. 



May I suggest this, Mr. Chairman — not being chairman of the sub- 

 committee, 1 cannot speak for it — but inasmuch as this is a rather new 

 problem so far as we are concerned and inasmuch as it does deal with 

 strategical product, would it be reasonable to suggest — and I am going 

 to make the same suggestion to Senator Gillette — that at some time, 

 as soon as we have secured the facts, the two subcommittees get 

 together and pool their ideas, because I am sure we are all equaUy 

 desirous of bringing about some permanent solution to the problem. 



Mr. Poage. I am in much the same position as you are. Senator 

 Holland, in that I am not chairman of this subcommittee; I am here 

 because Mr. Pace, the chairman of the subcommittee, could not be 

 here at this time. I think the suggestion is a good one. 



Senator Holland. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I notice a dis- 

 tmguished Member of Congress from California is a member of your 

 committee. I have had a great many friendly contacts with Repre- 

 sentatives of California during our consideration of the citrus problem. 



Mr. Poage. Yon do not mean that Florida has friendly contacts 

 with California? 



Senator Holland. Oh, yes; when we have citrus troubles we are 

 quite sympathetic with each other. 



Mr. White. That is correct, Senator. 



Senator Holland. When the citrus problem pinches everyone. 



Mr. Poage. Do I understand that it pinches just about like that 

 [indicating with hand] and squeezes us in Texas? 



Senator Holland. We have found that Texas, California, and 

 Arizona have citrus problems quite the same as the problems we have. 

 Before I became Governor of my State, I represented the citrus indus- 

 try in Washington matters; and i had occasion to come up here many 

 times and found the Texas, Arizona, and California people were very 

 cooperative and were wilHng to work with us in Florida, because they 

 were interested in this problem of what to do about the tree crops, for 

 which we have such a completely different situation than many other 

 crops. 



In some cases they can dry the fruits; in other cases they can be 

 canned; some can be concentrated; but it is a most troublesome ques- 

 tion in all tree crops in all areas just now as to what permanent part 

 this whole agricultural program is going to play. 



Mr. Poage. Thank you very much, Senator Holland, for youi 

 statement. 



