The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-27
COMMITTEE Is
UNABLE T0GET
AN AGREEMENT
Measure Reported BY Tincher
of Kansas Is Endorsed
BY Sec. Jardine
TO AID COOPERATIvES
Other Measures to Be Con.
sidered Are Haugen and
CurtiS.ASwell Bills

Washington. April o7.-LR-W,dc.
~ different plans for solution Of thu
surplus crop problem were submitted
to the house today BY members Of
its agriculture committee, which has
been delving into the situation for
several months without reaching an
agreement on any single measure,
The plan which has the endorse
ment Of Secretary Jardine was report
cd by Representative Tinchcr, Re-
publican, Kansas. 1t would provide
special agency with 100000, 900
loan fund to aid cooperative market
ing associations in disposing Of sur
plus crops and thus, Mr.. Tincher said.
bring about stabilized prices and the
orderly flow Of farm products into
consumptive channels through ma
chinery set up, operated and manag-
cd by the farmers themselves"
Representative Aswell, Democrat,
louisiana, presented the Curtis-As-
we'll commodity marketing bill, which
calls for an appropriation Of only 10
million dollars to establish national
and subsidiary sectional marketing
associations owned, controlled ard
operated by farmers. This plan, he
argued. provides for permanent rather
than temporary relief and contem-
plates national rather than sec-
tlonal system Of organizations.
Chairman Haugen. Of the commit
tee. introduced his bill to authorize u
revolving fund of 1876 100000 to
stabilize prices Of basic farm COM
modities. He said il was evident tho
farmers could not ut this time acquire
funds necessary for the purpose.
The Tincher Bill
Mr.. Tinchcr asserted that the ad-
ministration proposal "places at the
disposal Of farmer-controlled agen-
cies additional resources of the gov
crnment, and will stimulate their
development along sound and con-
lines"
"The whole history of legislation
within the field of agricultural pro-
duction." he said. demonstrates that
the most effective action is that bas-
cd upon the sound experience of the
farmers themselves. In productive
efficiency the American farmer has
come to be substantially on a par
with the industrial producer. The
problem now is to put the governing ut
powerfully behind the farmers own
efforts to achieve orderly marketing
and stabilized prices, without at the
same time imposing government regu-
lation of farm business. The disposal
of surpluses, is. at bottom, a question
of merchandising
''Ths bill follows the principle
within the marketing field Of recog-
nizing the most successful farm ex-
perience to date and opening up the
opportunity for wider distribution
Of that experience. If we can foster
a distribution of merchandising eff
cheney in agriculture comparable with
its modern efficiency in production
If the farm can meet other groups in
the markets on terms of equality
the surplus problem will no longer
exist
The Curtis-Aswell Bill
Mr.. Aswell, in listing the merits
he claimed for his bill, compared
them with disadvantages he ascribed
to the other proposals. His bill, he
said, proposes:
Farmer control and management
hot governmental control of farm
marketing.
THAT the farmers elect their own
officers-not to throw the selection
of officials into political campaigns.
Continuous service for efficient
officcrs--not that administrations
periodically change officials.
ITO control production and curb
surplus; not to encourage over-pro-
duction.
Repayment of loans by commodity
Assessments---not an equalization fee
nc cnA ht, fnlo hNorI
ITO stabilize farm products under
economic laws--not to establish arti-
ficial federal price fixing.
"To protect the consumer--n6t to
allow ex0rbitant price raising to the
consumer.
ITO absolve the unnecessary profits
of useless middlemen--not to increase
the handling costs.
"To prevent gambling and specula-
tion--not to continue it.
"To establish true cooperation--not
state socialism.
- "To recognize economic independ-
ence-not to establish paterna.ism."
The Haugen Bill
Chairman Haugen in his report dis
cussing the farmers bills, said:
"The best judgment is that the
remedy will be found in carrying
products over from fat years to lean
years and equaling a price based on
supply and demand over period Of
years rather than for one year. and
in managing the surplus so as to
make the tariff on agricultural pro-
ducts effective
I'm their eagerness for relief the
American farmers have asked the
government to establish by law the
machinery by which they may contrib.
ute to this fund through a small fee
collected on their crops. But the cOm-
mittee felt it unwise to provide for
the immediate imposition Of the fee
without allowing the proposed fed
eral farm board time in which to
test out its operations and to arr
range the mechanism. For these rea-
sons provision has been made that
collection Of the equalization fee
should be deferred for two years and
the operation Of the board during
that time financed from funds drawn
from the revolving fund provided W
the government"
The report adds that .'the principlc
is well established that the gcvern-
ment shall assume the risk Of pioneer.
Continued on page six.l