Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-23
.IEGGE TO TESTIFY
IN LOBBY PROBE
IF REQUESTED
Farm Board Head, However,
Says He Lacks Time to
Give Committee.
LETTER HAD DENIED
CHANGE OF POLICIES
Refusal of Senators to Put Missivc
in Record Their Business,
He Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Legge of the Farm Boarc
said today that he had no time to ap.
pear before the Senate lobby committee
but that If he was asked he would 40 so
The Farm Board chairman, referring
to the refusal of the committee to
make letter he had written part of the
record, said that the committee knew
its own business, and that he had sent
the letter only to straighten out certain
information which apparently had been
misunderstood.
Mr.. Legge wrote the committee that
no policies of the Farm Board had been
changed as the result Of conference
he had held with Julius Barnes of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
grain exporter, and three other prom
inent grain dealers.
Barnes had testified before the COM
mittee that he had understood that the
Farm Board would attempt to change
some of its policy with regard to loans
to co-operatives as result Of the con-
ference.
Question Of Altering Policy.
Before the committee Barnes testi-
ned he understood, after a conference
with Chairman Legge, that the board
would alter its loan policy so that
farmer members Of co-operatives who
borrowed money from the board would
pay the same rate Of interest as that
paid by others borrowing from COM
mercial sources.
In turn Legga wrote the lobby COM
mittee q letter of explanation. Chair
man Caraway did not put this in the
record, but told Legge he would be
ep1Vr 10 Ian
wished to do so.
Caraway also wrote Legge that he
hoped the board would repudiate the
announcements made by Barnes, as
serting that 1t must do so If 1t wished
to retain the confidence of the farmer
This drew an immediate reply from
Legge, who said that. every loan, to CO.
operatives was made at the rate pro-
vided in the farm act and that the, CO.
operatives themselves fixed an addition
al interest paid by farmer borrowers
Legge also asserted that the board had
not agreed to submit its policies to the
grain trade before action
Manager Il Selected.
Meanwhile, the National Grain Cor
poration informed the Farm Board that
William Kellogg of Minneapolis, well
known grain man, has been selected as
manager Of the corporation and will as.
sum- duties on January I. w. g. Ions
dale, Kansas City grain dealer, had been
offered the post, but refused it, saying
that he was out of sympathy with the
boards grain marketing policies.
The National Grain Corporation,
which is national sales agency for all
the grain cooperative associations, al
ready has been buying wheat on the
Chicago Grain Exchange. procedure
which Mr.. Legge said today was ap-
proved by the Farm Board. 81
The corporation, he said, had found
that there was more, space available
for storage than had besn expected
and also that some Of the wheat now
being bought would 60 into export trASa,
which the corporation expects will soon
increase.
Since the organization of the cor
poration 1t has been under the active
management of committee appointed
by the board Of directors.