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Mr. Andresen. What, is the committee going to do about it? 

 Here we have been in session for over 5 months. This committee has 

 sat day after day working on this problem and we do not have a bill 

 on it yet. 



Mr. Pace. I hope that Friday morning when the committee meets 

 in executive session there will be a bill before it and I hope the gentle- 

 man from Minnesota will support it. 



Mr. Andresen. I may support it. I thought we had reached an 

 agreement several times as to what we were to have, but we find so 

 many new things coming in, including a trial run and all those things, 

 that I think we should stick to something fundamental if we are 

 going to do it, or forget about it. 



Mr. Pace. Is there anything further, Mr. Slocum? 



Mr. Slocum. No, sir. 



Mr. Pace. Let me say we are again indebted to you and Russell 

 Smith, whore presents the National Farmers Union, for bringing you 

 here. I regret that there were not more members of the committee 

 here to hear your testimony but I will seek to see that they are advised 

 of your position. 



Mr. Slocum. Thank you very much. 



Mr. Andresen. Mr. Chairman, we have one of our distinguished 

 colleagues here, Mr. Macy of New York. He has been a very good 

 attendant here for the whole morning. I am sure that he might like 

 to address the committee. 



Mr. Macy. That is very kind of you, and if I may be permitted,. 

 Mr. Chairman, I have nothing to add. I came to learn and I have 

 learned a good deal this morning. I have appreciated the opportunity 

 and the courtesy you have extended in letting my office know that 

 you were holding these hearings so that I could be on hand. 



Mr. PACf5. Thank you, sir. That will conclude the hearings for 

 the time being and it will conclude the hearings definitely on the 

 question of an experimental program or a trial run under the produc- 

 tion payment plan. "We will stand adjom-ned. 



(Whereupon, at 12 noon, the committee adjourned.) 



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