Farm Relief Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, First Session, Relative to Establishing a Federal Farm Board to Aid in the Orderly Marketing, and in the Control and Disposition of the Surplus of Agricultural Commodities in Interstate and Foreign Commerce : March 25 to April 12, 1929 ... |
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acreage acres agricultural American amount average bales basis believe bill BRINTON bushels Canada Canadian cent CHAIRMAN commission committee commodity Congress CONNELL consumer cooperative marketing corn cost of production COTTINGTON cotton COULTER crop debenture dollars domestic elevator equalization fee export facilities farm loan farm products farm relief farmer Federal farm board finance freight rates fund going Government grades grain handling important increase industry interest JORDAN land bank legislation LUCHSINGER MACPHAIL marketing association McNary Minneapolis North Dakota organization overproduction plant pool potatoes present President problem profit proposition protein question reason Secretary HYDE sell Senator BROOKHART Senator CARAWAY Senator FRAZIER Senator HEFLIN Senator NORBECK Senator NORRIS Senator THOMAS SHEPPARD sold stabilization corporation statement surplus TABER tariff thing THOMAS of Idaho THOMAS of Oklahoma tion United VESECKY warehouse YOAKUM
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Page 806 - That any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commission...
Page 177 - If the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 177 - It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the Governor of the State or Territory in which it is located, a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Page 805 - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing documentary evidence before the commission or in obedience to the subpoena of the commission on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture.
Page 805 - ... to the person to be served, or to a member of the partnership to be served, or to the president, secretary, or other executive officer or a director of the corporation to be served: or...
Page 177 - The grants of moneys authorized by this Act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants...
Page 177 - ... three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.
Page 177 - SEC. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of institutions for colored students, under this act, and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive.
Page 762 - ... would be equal to this increase. In the next twenty-five years the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirtythree millions.
Page 177 - ... shall, by any action or contingency, be -diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by...