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PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN FARM BILL DECISION
During my 21 years of service in Congress I have endeavored to translate into Twentieth Century terms the principles of our gfreat—cst political philosopher—Thomas Jefferson—and it was in that spirit that I took my position on the farm bill debated by the Sen- ate last week. Jefferson believed that those least governed were the best governed and that the central government should limit its functions to those which could not properly be handled by the states and their local sub-divisions. He believed also in private enterprise and a minimum of government control over activities of individuals. » *
The chief point at issue in the farm bill was whether the Senate would agree with the House of Representatives and with seven out of fifteen members of the Senate Agriculture Committee on a price support program with a flexible feature or whether it would accept the recommendation of the majority of eight members of its Agriculture Committee who reported a bill calling for a continuation of rigid support for basic crops at 90 percent of parity. A third alternative we had to consider was that if we passed a bill
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