CROP PRODUCTION AND HARVESTING LOANS ADMINISTRATION OF SUGAR ACT OF 1937 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS .A4 1938 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EDWARD T. TAYLOR, Colorado, Chairman CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri THOMAS S. MCMILLAN, South Carolina J. BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania JOHN F. DOCKWEILER, California GEORGE W. JOHNSON, West Virginia JOACHIM O. FERNANDEZ, Louisiana J. BURRWOOD DALY, Pennsylvania ROSS A. COLLINS, Mississippi JOHN TABER, New York ROBERT L. BACON, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts J. WILLIAM DITTER, Pennsylvania APPROPRIATIONS-CROP PRODUCTION AND HARVESTING LOANS; ADMINISTRATION OF SUGAR ACT OF 1937 HEARINGS (H. J. Res. 571) CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. EDWARD T. TAYLOR (CHAIRMAN), CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, JOHN J. BOYLAN, CLARENCE CANNON, LOUIS LUDLOW, THOMAS S. MCMILLAN, J. BUELL SNYDER, JOHN TABER, ROBERT L. BACON, AND RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: JANUARY 19, 1938. FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION STATEMENTS OF S. M. GARWOOD, PRODUCTION CREDIT COMMISSIONER, AND PEYTON R. EVANS, GENERAL COUNSEL FARMERS' CROP PRODUCTION AND HARVESTING LOANS, FISCAL YEARS 1938 AND 1939 The CHAIRMAN. We have a Budget estimate for crop loans submitted in House Document No. 479. If you care to make some preliminary statement concerning the matter you may do so. Mr. GARWOOD. As to the legal part of this, Mr. Chairman, I would like to have our general counsel, Mr. Evans, tell you the whys and wherefores. I can answer on the administrative problem. The CHAIRMAN. Do you desire to have him tell us the whys and wherefores first? Mr. GARWOOD. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. All right, sir. Proceed. Mr. EVANS. Last year, Mr. Chairman, Congress passed the usual crop-feed and seed-loan bill, and the title to the bill read as follows: "To provide for loans to farmers for crop-production ahd harvesting purposes during the year 1937, and for other purposes.' The body of the act did not contain any limitations as to time in making these loans. Had it not been for the title, there would have been no question that the law could have been used continually until Congress saw fit to repeal it. Mr. CANNON. It is well established, is it not, that the title has no force and effect? Mr. EVANS. That is true. Mr. CANNON. And that the text governs. Mr. EVANS. That is perfectly true. When the appropriation act was passed, the appropriation contained the title, and also referred to the payment of expenses 1 |