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and that it was supported by President Coolidge and 

 Secretary Jardine. Two criticisms were directed 

 against it by farm papers and farm organiza- 

 tions throughout the country. It was contended 

 in the first place that it did not go to the root of 

 the farm problem because there was no real need 

 for more cheap money to finance commodity co- 

 operative enterprises. In the second place, the bill 

 failed to offer a satisfactory remedy for stabilizing 

 market conditions. In other words, the same criti- 

 cism was directed at the Tincher Bill that applied 

 to the Curtis-Aswell Bill, namely, that it did not 

 provide a satisfactory method for marketing surplus 

 farm products. 



For these reasons the friends of farm relief in 

 Congress turned to the Haugen Bill, otherwise 

 known as the Farm Surplus Bill, which was the 

 only one of the three that really attempted a solu- 

 tion of the surplus problem. This bill was similar 

 to the McNary-Haugen Bill that was offered as an 

 emergency measure in the preceding Congress. It 

 provided in brief for four things: 



(1) The establishment in the Department of 

 Agriculture of "A Division of Cooperative Market- 

 ing" for the encouragement and assistance of com- 

 modity cooperative associations. 



(2) The creation of a "Federal Farm Advisory 

 Council' 7 to consist of five men from each of the 

 twelve federal land bank districts, four to be 

 nominated by farmers' marketing organizations and 



