TESTIMONY OF PEODUCEE GEOUPS AND 

 MEMBEES OF CONGEESS 



THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the 



Committee on Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 

 The special subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture met in 

 the committee room, 1310 New House Office Building, at 10 a. m., 

 Hon. Stephen Pace, subcommittee chairman, presiding. 

 Mr. Pace. The committee will come to order. 



The purpose of the meeting this morning is to have before us the 

 Members of Congress and it is our pleasure at this time to hear from 

 our colleague. Congressman K. M. LeCompte, Representative from 

 the State of Iowa. We will be glad to hear from you, Mr. LeCompte. 



STATEMENT OF HON. KARL M. LeCOMPTE, A REPRESENTATIVE 

 IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF IOWA 



Mr. LeCompte. Mr. Chairman, being fully conscious of the effort 

 that this committee is making to get at the facts and really conduct 

 research into the subject of necessary farm legislation, I communicated 

 wdth the president of the largest farm organization in the State of 

 Iowa, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and submitted to the presi- 

 dent of that organization some c^uestions on the subject of marketing 

 quotas and acreage quotas. 



Mr. Pace. On corn? 



Mr. LeCompte. On corn — on nothing but corn. 



I know your committee is engaged in the study of all the principal 

 crops, but inasmuch as our State is first in the production of corn, 

 my effort was only to get some information for the committee on the 

 subject of corn. 



L^nless there are some questions that members of the committee 

 would want to ask me, I was going to ask permission of the committee 

 to insert in the record the letter that I received from. Mr. E. Howard 

 HiU, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, on the subject, 

 and not take any more time of the committee. Of course, I would 

 be glad to answer any questions. 



Air. Pace. Would you mind stating, without reading it, the sub- 

 stance of the letter? 



Mr. LeCompte. I will just read one paragraph of it. He says: 



It is our belief that it would be wiser to decide definitely the type of long-time 

 farm program we are to have in effect for the future years before making decisions 

 about smaller parts of that program, such as marketing quotas. In other words, 

 it is our feeling that we might be "getting the cart before the horse." 



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