FARMERS' HOME CORPORATION ACT OF 1944 LIBRARY HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 4384 JUN 21 1944 TO SIMPLIFY AND IMPROVE CREDIT SERVICES TO FARM 99294 MARCH 29 TO MAY 15, 1944 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 CONTENTS Duggan, I. W., Acting Governor, Farm Credit Administration_ Goss, Albert S., master, the National Grange_ Hancock, Frank, administrator, Farm Security Administration_____ Horan, Hon. Walt, Representative in Congress from the State of Johnson, Mrs. Thomasina Walker (statement submitted) 313 Jones, J. S., executive secretary, Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation__ 123 97 Ponder, Lovic B., State supervisor, Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Short, R. E., president, Farm Bureau of Arkansas. Wiggins, A. L. M., president, American Bankers Association__ III FARMERS' HOME CORPORATION ACT OF 1944 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The committee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to notice, Hon. John W. Flannagan, Jr., presiding. Mr. FLANNAGAN. The committee will come to order. Mr. Patton has to catch a plane and we agreed to hear him first so that he could get away as soon as possible. We have for consideration H. R. 4384, commonly known as the Farmers' Home Corporation Act of 1944. (The bill referred to is as follows:) [H. R. 4384, 78th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To simplify and improve credit services to farmers and promote farm ownership by abolishing certain agricultural lending agencies and functions, by transferring assets to the Farmers' Home Corporation, by enlarging the powers of the Farmers' Home Corporation, by authorizing Government insurance of loans to farmers, by creating preferences for loans and insured mortgages to enable veterans to acquire farms, by providing additional specific authority and directions with respect to the liquidation of resettlement projects and rural rehabilitation projects for resettlement purposes, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Farmers' Home Corporation Act of 1944". DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN AGENCIES AND THEIR ASSETS AND PERSONNEL SEC. 2. (a) The following agencies, functions, powers, and duties are hereby abolished and the following laws relating thereto repealed: (1) The Farm Security Administration and all of its functions, powers, and duties. Title II of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 7, secs. 1007 et seq.) (relating to rehabilitation loans) is hereby repealed. (2) The Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation of Washington, District of Columbia, and the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation of Minneapolis, Minnesota, their functions, powers, and duties, including those of their officers and boards of directors. Section 201 (e) of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 12, sec. 1148), section 84 of the Farm Credit Act of 1933 (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 12, sec. 1148a), and sections 32, 33, and 34 of the Farm Credit Act of 1937 (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 12, secs. 1148b-1148d) (all relating to the creation and operation of regional agricultural credit corporations) are hereby repealed. (3) All functions, powers, and duties of the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration which relate to the making, administration, and liquidation of (a) all loans to farmers under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1937, and for other purposes", approved January 29, 1937 (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 12, secs. 10201-10200); (b) all loans identified or referred to in sections 6 (b), 5 (c), and 5 (d) of Executive Order Numbered 6084, dated March 27, 1933, and (c) all other |