HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS A BILL TO AMEND THE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938, AS AMENDED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF REGULATING INTERSTATE AND FOR EIGN COMMERCE IN PEANUTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES A. M. Dickson, Surplus Marketing Administration, Department of G. F. Holsinger, president, Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, Harrison- R. C. Holland, president, Peanut Stabilization Cooperative, Inc. (tele- William J. Lavery, representing Curtiss Candy Co., Chicago, Ill. Edward A. O'Neal, president, American Farm Bureau Federation.. Roy E. Parrish, manager, Georgia-Florida-Alabama Peanut Associa- Planters Nut & Chocolate Co., Suffolk, Va. (telegram). J. E. Winslow, president, North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, W. P. Woodley, representing Virginia-Carolina Peanut Association, REGULATION OF PEANUTS IN INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1941 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in the hearing room of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, New House Office Building, Hon. Wall Doxey, presiding. Mr. DOXEY. The committee will please be in order. We have called the meeting of this subcommittee this morning, and, of course, it is applicable to most of those people who are interested in peanuts. We appreciate the use of this committee room, as we are unable to use our own committee room on account of some extensive repairs. We will be permitted to use this room today and tomorrow, and I do not know whether we will use it Wednesday or not. At the beginning I just want to make this suggestion: This committee never endeavors to outline procedure in the hearings on a bill. We want you people who are interested in this problem to manage your own hearings, but we are going to respectfully ask that when you select your witnesses to testify, do not have a whole lot of cumulative facts. This committee, all of us, are more or less familiar with the problem-some of us more than others. So far as the committee is concerned, of course, Mr. Pace is the one member on this committee who is not only vitally interested in peanuts, but he has given a great deal of thought and study to the subject. Of course, when we start hearings we go into the general subject, and none of us know just what the final recommendations of the subcommittee are going to be to the full committee nor what action the full committee will take; but we have to have something specific to work on, as a rule; so, for the purpose of starting these hearings this morning, there is to be used as a basis H. R. 2983. It is a bill introduced by Mr. Pace, our colleague from Georgia. for I think the proper way to begin these hearings would be, Mr. Pace, you to just make whatever statement you desire to make, and then after you conclude what you might have to say we can then determine what witnesses will follow. We will be glad to hear from you, Mr. Pace, in regard to your bill and the proposed problem regarding peanuts. (The bill is as follows:) [H. R. 2983, 77th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, for the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in peanuts, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act |