COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE HAROLD D. COOLEY, North Carolina, Chairman GEORGE M. GRANT, Alabama CLIFFORD R. HOPE, Kansas AUGUST H. ANDRESEN, Minnesota WILLIAM S. HILL, Colorado CHARLES B. HOEVEN, Iowa SID SIMPSON, Illinois PAUL B. DAGUE, Pennsylvania RALPH HARVEY, Indiana HAROLD O. LOVRE, South Dakota PAGE BELCHER, Oklahoma CLIFFORD G. MCINTIRE, Maine WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, New York KARL C. KING, Pennsylvania ROBERT D. HARRISON, Nebraska MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin HENRY ALDOUS DIXON, Utah DELEGATES E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska MRS. JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii A. FERNÓS-ISERN, Puerto Rico Mrs. MABEL C. DOWNEY, Clerk CONTENTS H. R. 8322. A bill to encourage the sale of cotton for export and to limit imports of manufactured cotton products---- H. R. 8658. A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other H. R. 8659. A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other H. R. 8703. A bill to protect the income of cotton producers, encourage the expansion of domestic and world cotton markets, and provide an equitable competitive position for the United States cotton textile in- dustry, by establishing the support level of American upland cotton at 75 percent of parity and providing for compliance payments to coop- Page Baker, John A., coordinator of legislative service, National Farmers 192 Bell, W. Ray, president, Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of Bracey, Hilton L., executive officer, Missouri Cotton Producers Asso- Butz, Earl, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, accompanied by F. Marion Rhodes, Director, Cotton Division; Gus Burmeister, As- sistant Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; and Robert C. Sherman, Director, Cotton Division, Department of Agriculture___ Cheney, Roy A., president, Underwear Institute, and general counsel, the Work Glove Institute, Chicago, Ill. - Cortright, G. C., Jr., chairman, Delta Council Agricultural Commit- Deane, Hon. Charles B., a Representative in Congress from the State Dixon, Hugo, president, American Cotton Shippers Association__. Dorn, Hon. W. J. Bryan, a Representative in Congress from the State Elliott, Hon, Carl, a Representative in Congress from the State of 21 247 Grady, Paul D., Sr., Kenly, Johnston County, N. C... Grant, H. P., Jr., secretary-manager, Louisiana Delta Council.. Klurfeld, Arthur M., executive director, Textile Fabrics Association__ 78 III Parker, Gilbert, director, Tennessee Agricultural Council.. Patteson, Alan G., president, American Cotton Producers Associates_ Richmond, Howard, vice president, Crompton Co., West Warwick, Roberts, Hon. Kenneth, a Representative in Congress from the State 233 Scroggin, Oliver, Little Rock Cotton Exchange... 217 Sisk, Hon. B. F., a Representative in Congress from the State of 229 Smith, Hon. Frank E., a Representative in Congress from the State 244 Stitt, Nelson A., executive director, the Council For Improved United Sullivan, William F., secretary and counsel, Northern Textile Associa- Turner, Lawson W., Jr., executive vice president, N. & W. Industries, Wickersham, Hon. Victor, a Representative in Congress from the 269 183 239 Willis, Hon. Edwin E., a Representative in Congress from the State 245 Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by- 71 American Chamber of Commerce for Trade With Italy, Inc., New Agricultural Needs and Foreign Economic Policy, statement of Full Parity Family Farm Income Protection Program-A United States farm, food, and fiber policy that makes international good sense, by James Patton to Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of Joint Committee on the Economic Report, National Farmers Union Position on Farm Marketing Quotas and Acreage Allotments-Legislative analysis memorandum, Blake, Wm. Rhea, executive vice president, National Cotton Council, 301 255 196 180 133 Cotton Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, Department of Council For Improved United States-Japanese Trade Relations: Letter of February 16, 1956, to Hon. E. C. Gathings 97 se Dress Institute, New York, N. Y., letter of February 7, 1956__ son, Robert C., American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, Inc.: otton at the crossroads-Why an important quota on cotton 151 Sullivan, William F., National Association of Textile Manufacturers: 190 |