BEFORE U. S. Congress. House. THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS 521 75 1949 Copy 3 Statements of CONTENTS Bennett, Hon. Charles E., Member of Congress from Florida_ Page 17 111 111 Lasbury, Ralph C., Jr., Shade Tobacco Growers Association, Hart- 115 Love, James, Florida-Georgia Leaf Tobacco Association, Quincy, Fla. 87, 112 109 Nassau, Aaron, Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, Inc. 87, 105 113 Patterson, Hon. James T., Member of Congress from Connecticut.. 99 18 Sadlak, Hon. Antoni N., Member of Congress from Connecticut.. 86 Sikes, Hon. Robert L. F., Member of Congress from Florida Smathers, Hon. George A., Member of Congress from Florida.. cut.. Woodhouse, Hon. Chase Going, Member of Congress from Connecti Statements submitted by 5 Thigpen, J. E., Production and Marketing Administration, Depart- 107 III ser. VV CIGAR-WRAPPER TOBACCO-TYPES 61 AND 62 THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Stephen Pace, presiding. The chairman is detained momentarily and, in the interest of saving time, we will get started. The committee has met this morning to consider a series of three bills, the first by the gentlelady from Connecticut (Mrs. Woodhouse), H. R. 7222; the second by the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Ribicoff), H. R. 7218; and the third by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Sikes), H. R. 7154. These bills have to do with amending the Agricultural Adjustment Act relating to tobacco. [H. R. 7154, 81st Congress 2d session] A BILL To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 with respect to cigar-wrapper type 61 tobacco and cigar-wrapper type 62 tobacco Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 301 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (U. S. C., title 7, sec. 1301 (b)), is amended (a) by amending paragraph (7) so as to provide marketing years for tobacco as follows: 66 Tobacco (flue-cured and cigar-wrapper types 61 and 62), July 1-June 30; "Tobacco (other than flue-cured and cigar-wrapper types 61 and 62), October 1-September 30;". (b) By amending paragraph (10) (B) to read as follows: (B) Normal supply' in the case of tobacco shall be a normal year's domestic consumption and exports, plus, as an allowance for a normal carry-over, 65 per centum of a normal year's exports and the following percentage of a normal year's domestic consumption: 175 per centum in the case of kinds of tobacco other than cigar-wrapper types 61 and 62, 150 per centum in the case of cigar-wrapper type 61 tobacco, and 140 per centum in the case of cigar-wrapper type 62 tobacco.' (c) By amending paragraph (15) by changing the period following the words, "Cigar-filler tobacco, comprising type 41" to a semicolon, and by adding at the bottom of the list contained therein the following: "Cigar-wrapper type 61 tobacco; "Cigar-wrapper type 62 tobacco;". SEC. 2. Section 313 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (U. S. C., title 7, sec. 1313), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(i) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, in the case of cigarwrapper type 62 tobacco, the Secretary, on the basis of the national average yield per acre during the five years last preceding the year in which the national marketing quota is proclaimed, adjusted for abnormal conditions of production, shall convert such national marketing quota into a national acreage allotment. The national acreage allotment shall be apportioned to farms on the basis of the factors set forth in subsection (g) of this section. The Secretary may appoint a committee of producers of type 62 tobacco which, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, shall assist other committees and agencies utilized in the administration of marketing quotas pursuant to this Act. |