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present our case at the White House. The first word we received was a telephoned message from ai White House aide today that the President already had vetoed the bill. His official message to Congress arrived shortly thereafter.”
Mr. Harrison, whose district includes the major Virginia applet growing areas, made the following statement to the House on announcement from the Speaker's dais that the message had been received :
“Mr. Speaker, the President’s action in vetoing a bill to stop apple price-forecasting by the Department of Agriculture is as inevplicable as it is petty. It is a
REP HARRISON TO SPEAK HERE JULY 11
Rap. Burr P. Harruen will ■peak at tha Coart Houaa oa July 11 at 8 o’clock. Rap. Harrison will bo kara on tha invitation of Rappahannock Farm Bureau. Tha public is cordially invited to attend.
cruel and unwarranted blow to the smaller apple farmers. The veto does not square with the professed determination of the Administration to get the Federal government out of activitiesL which are wasteful of the taxpayers’ money and serve no essential purpose. Apple farmers will find it difficult to understand why the President heeded the plea of bureaucrats of his Department of Agriculture to let them continue the useless and often damaging guessing game on apple prices without giving the apple farmers’ organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federaor the authors of the bill any opportunity to explain why price forecasting on apples has been of no value and has done substantial harm.
“In Congressional hearings on this legislation, representatives of
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