GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 765 



The Chairman. That deals with the future program. 



Mr. Jones. That is right. 



The Chairman. I will ask this question: How has Congress by 

 congressional action injiu-ed the wool industry of this country? 



Air. Vaughn. May I answer that? That question embodies the 

 idea entirely different from what I conceive to be your question. You 

 say, ''How has Congress by its action injured the wool industry?" 



The Chairman. That is right. 



Mr. Vaughn. The question was answered on the basis of the tariff 

 reduction which Congress did not have anything to do with, so far as 

 I know. 



The Chairman. ^Vliy did it not? Congi-ess provides the tariff law. 



Mr. Vaughn. Did Congress approve the 25-percent reduction? 



The Chairman. Certainly. We gave the authority. 



Mr. Vaughn. So far as I know, Congress never discussed that 

 particular feature. Possibly it did. 



The Chairman. I will come back to my question — Suppose that we 

 repeal it outright, as long as we support you at 110 percent of parity, 

 why do you complain? 



Air. Vaughn. That situation has not come up yet. 



The Chairman. You are complaining because we lowered the 

 tariff 25 percent in the interest of world trade, but we compensated 

 for it by giving you a support price which would prevent your being 

 injured in any way. 



Mr. Vaughn. That statement is only partly correct, as I see it, 

 because you did not compensate after your reduction of the tariff. 



The Chairman. In other words, you want something more than 110 

 percent of parity? 



Mr. PoAGE. As a matter of fact, cotton gets 90 percent of parity. 

 That is all that cotton gets in the way of support. Is that right? 



Air. Vaughn. That is right. 



AJr. PoAGE. Tobacco gets 90 percent of parity and that is all that 

 it gets in the way of support. 



Mr. Vaughn. I can agree with that. 



Air. PoAGE. Corn gets 90 percent of parity and that is all that it 

 gets in the way of support. 



Air. Vaughn. That is correct. 



Air. Poage. Now then, we have said to the wool people we are going 

 to give you support. I know that it is on a fixed basis, the 42 cents 

 based on -what the price of wool was on a certain date, but it figures a 

 high percent of parity; as high as it does for any other commodity; 

 does it not? 



Mr. Vaughn. I think so. 



Mr. Poage. Now, if that is true, and we are giving you a support 

 just as high as we are supporting any other commodity in the United 

 States, wherein are you being discriminated against? 



Air. Vaughn. I did not come here, gentlemen, to get into that kind 

 of an argument. 



Air. Poage. After aU, you are asking us to pass legislation here and 

 we want to know — do you want the same treatment that we accord 

 every other farm product in the United States? I want to say that I 

 think that you are entitled to just as much protection as cotton, tobacco 

 or corn or milk, but I think, and my State grows more wool than any 

 other in the Union, that the wool man is not entitled to a more favor- 



