10 THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



Middle West and South, our great agricultural 

 sections, where the situation was most acute. 

 Those present were Senators W. S. Kenyon, 

 of Iowa; Arthur Capper, of Kansas; G. W. 

 Norris, of Nebraska; F. R. Gooding, of Idaho; 

 E. F. Ladd, of North Dakota; Robert M. La 

 Follette, of Wisconsin ; E. D. Smith, of South 

 Carolina; J. B. Kendrick, of Wyoming; Duncan 

 U. Fletcher, of Florida; Joseph E. Ransdell, of 

 Louisiana ; J. T. Heflin, of Alabama, and Morris 

 Sheppard, of Texas. 



At this meeting also there were present rep- 

 resentatives of government departments, asked 

 in to act as advisers on the program that should 

 be adopted. There were representatives of the 

 farmers who were asked to tell what farmers 

 felt was their outstanding needs. The declara- 

 tion of purpose by Senator W. S. Kenyon, of 

 Iowa, was that this group give thorough and 

 earnest consideration to the outstanding pro- 

 posals to the end of securing action by Congress. 

 Four Committees were appointed on the follow- 

 ing subjects : Transportation, Federal Reserve 

 Act, Commodity Financing and miscellaneous 

 agricultural bills. 



From the very beginning this movement was 

 non-partisan and a recognition of the economic 



