Your committee reports that the records proposed for disposal in the said lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, reported by the Archivist of the United States do not, or will not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government and recommends that their disposal be accomplished subject to the proviso.of section 6 and the provisions of section 9 of the aforementioned act, as amended, in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the National Archives Council under the provisions of said act. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. Members on the Part of the House. Members on the Part of the Senate. O H. Rept. 1146 DISPOSITION OF SUNDRY PAPERS AUGUST 1. 1949.-Ordered to be printed Mr. GARMATZ, from the Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, submitted the following REPORT The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Representatives and acting in compliance with the provisions of the act approved July 7, 1943 (57 Stat. 380), as amended by the act approved July 6, 1945 (59 Stat. 434), respectfully reports to the Senate and House of Representatives that it has received and examined the report of the Archivist of the United States No. 50-4, dated July 26, 1949, to the Eighty-first Congress, first session, submitting the following lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, covering records proposed for disposal by the Government agencies indicated: Your committee reports that the records proposed for disposal in the said lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, reported by the Archivist of the United States do not, or will not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government and recommends that their disposal be accomplished subject to the proviso of section 6 and the provisions of section 9 of the aforementioned act, as amended, in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the National Archives Council under the provisions of said act. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. Members on the Part of the House. Members on the Part of the Senate. COTTON ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MARKETING QUOTAS AUGUST 1, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. COOLEY, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany H. R. 5738) The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5738) to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. STATEMENT Legislative measures to provide for a proper balance between supplies and demand of agricultural commodities are an essential part of a well-rounded agricultural program. Even though the economic activity of the United States continues at a high level and foreign demand for agricultural products generally may remain large for some time, the production of some agricultural commodities may easily exceed current and prospective demand. This is particularly true in the case of cotton. Although the international situation with respect to cotton is not critical at the present time, the domestic situation is such that acreage allotments and marketing quotas will likely be necessary for 1950. The world production of cotton during the 1948-49 season exceeded world consumption of cotton for the first time since the war. A recent release by the International Cotton Advisory Committee indicates that the global production of cotton for the 1948-49 season is estimated at 28,700,000 bales and consumption for the same period at 27,700.000 bales. At the beginning of the new crop year on August 1, 1949, the world carry-over of cotton is 1,000,000 bales larger than the carry-over for the preceding year. Although the world carry-over on August 1, 1949, of 15,000,000 bales is less than two-thirds of the carry-over on August 1, 1939, the trend in world production and consumption indicates that producers are again to be confronted with excessive world supplies. As compared with the preceding season, world production of cotton in 1948-49 increased 3,600,000 bales whereas world consumption diminished by 1,000,000 bales. The world cotton production for 1949-50 season, based on the acreage planted to date, gives promise of being larger than production for the 1948-49 season and world consumption of cotton may be adversely affected by a down-turn in industrial and trading activity in important cotton-consuming countries of the world. The carry-over of cotton in the United States on August 1, 1949, is expected to be approximately 5,500,000 bales. The recent July acreage report indicated that farmers have planted in excess of 26,000,000 acres of cotton in the United States in 1949. On the basis of the national average yield for the past 5 years, a 1949 crop of approximately 15,000,000 bales is indicated. If domestic consumption and export requirements for cotton for the next year should approximate the estimated domestic consumption and export requirements of approximately 12,500,000 bales for the current year, this would mean a net increase in the carry-over of cotton on August 1, 1950, over the preceding year, of approximately 2,500,000 bales. This would indicate a need for acreage allotments and marketing quotas for the 1950 crop. The cotton-marketing-quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1948, as amended, are inadequate to cope with present conditions. The 1938 act provides for cotton-acreage allotments for all farms in the United States in excess of 27,000,000 acres in the aggregate. This is substantially in excess of the acreage planted to cotton in 1948, and slightly in excess of the increased acreage of cotton which the Department of Agriculture has estimated farmers have planted in 1949. Therefore, if a control program in respect to cotton is to be effective, it is obvious that the present law is in need of substantial revision. In addition, the law should be changed to reflect current trends and shifts in the production of cotton in the United States as compared with the prewar production pattern. For example, there have been tremendous increases in cotton acreage in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri in the past few years. These States have increased their cotton production during this time much more rapidly than the country as a whole. During the same period there have been significant decreases in cotton acreage in some of the other States The cotton subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture held extensive hearings on H. R. 5392, a bill to amend the cotton acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the 1938 act. The subcommittee heard from Members of Congress, from farm organizations. from representatives of the Department of Agriculture, and from various individual cotton farmers. Careful consideration was also given to the plan worked out at a belt-wide cotton conference held in Memphis, Tenn., on April 23 and 24, 1949. After full consideration of the views of all interested parties, the subcommittee prepared and introduced a new bill (H. R. 5738) and reported favorably thereon to the full committee. The full committee approved the action of the ubcommittee and reports herewith the new bill. |