86550 HEARINGS I, I, Corales. House BEFORE -1 THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS BEFORE ON H. R. 5496 APRIL 3-MAY 3, 1946 TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL (H. R. 6303 REPORTED) APRIL 3-MAY 3, 1946 Serial K Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1946 Monograph (Incomplete) Copy 4 ༢ 30 46 CONTENTS Statement of Anderson, Hon. Clinton P., Secretary of Agriculture (letter). Bewley, W. C., Georgia Peach Exchange, Macon, Ga Brooks, Neil, attorney, Solicitor's Office, Department of Agriculture. Casey, George H., president, Deciduous Fruit Exchange, San Francisco, Calif Dodd, N. E., Under Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.. Loos, Karl D., representing California Fruit Growers Exchange, Wash- McClanahan, C. N., California Deciduous Tree Fruit Agreement, Muller, Charles H., eastern sales director, California Almond Growers O'Neal, Edward, president, American Farm Bureau Federation.. United States Hop Growers Association, San Francisco, Calif. III AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT RELATING TO MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1946 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The committee convened at 10 a. m., Hon. John W. Flannagan (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. We have before us for consideration this morning H. R. 5496, to amend the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act relating to marketing agreements and orders. (H. R. 5496 is as follows:) [H. R. 5496, 79th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To amend the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act relating to marketing agreements and orders Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is further amended as follows: First. By adding at the end of section 2 (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 7, sec. 602) the following: "(3) Through the exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture under this title, to establish and maintain such minimum standards of quality and such maturity and inspection requirements for agricultural commodities or the products thereof in interstate commerce as will effectuate such orderly marketing of such agricultural commodities as will be in the public interest." Second. By adding at the end of section 8c (6) (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 7, sec. 608c (6)) the following: "(F) Requiring, or providing for the requirement of, inspection of any such commodity or product produced during specified periods and marketed by handlers." Third. By amending section 10 (b) (2) (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 7, sec. 610 (b) (2)) to read as follows: "(2) Each order issued by the Secretary under this title shall provide that each handler subject thereto shall pay to any authority or agency established under such order such handler's pro rata share (as approved by the Secretary) of such expenses as the Secretary may find are reasonable and are likely to be incurred by such authority or agency, during any period specified by him, for such purposes as the Secretary may, pursuant to such order, determine to be appropriate, and for the maintenance and functioning of such authority or agency, other than expenses incurred in receiving, handling, holding, or disposing of any quantity of a commodity received, handled, held, or disposed of by such authority or agency for the benefit or account of persons other than handlers subject to such order. The pro rata share of the expenses payable by a cooperative association of producers shall be computed on the basis of the quantity of the agricultural commodity or product thereof covered by such order which is distributed, processed, or shipped by such cooperative association of |