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PRINTED FOR THE USE OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
ON BANKING AND CURRENCY.

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1914

USA 5
19/1700

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, UNITED STATES SENATE.

HENRY F. HOLLIS, New Hampshire, Chairman.

BLAIR LEE, Maryland.

COE I. CRAWFORD, South Dakota.

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

ROBERT J. BULKLEY, Ohio, Chairman.

WILLIAM G. BROWN, West Virginia.
CLAUDE U. STONE, Illinois.

HARRY H. SELDOMRIDGE, Colorado.
CLAUDE WEAVER, Oklahoma.

J. WILLARD RAGSDALE, South Carolina.
EVERIS A. HAYES, California.

FRANK P. WOODS, Iowa.

EDMUND PLATT, New York.

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MAY 20 1015

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LIST OF WITNESSES.

Ady, Abel, Klamath Falls, Oreg.

Alexander, H. Q., physician and farmer, Matthews, N. C..
Allen, Frederick H., New York, N. Y..

Page.

429, 964

280

969

-Atkeson, T. C., farmer, Morgantown, W. Va.

260

Badow, Gerard, M. J., journalist, Chicago, Ill..

570

Bathrick, Hon. Ellsworth R., Member of Congress from Ohio

858

Breitung, Edward N., mining engineer, Marquette, Mich...

319

Brooks, Prof. T. J., Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi.

240

Coulter, John Lee, secretary United States Commission to Investigate and
Study Rural Credits..

151, 830

Cunningham, John, farmer, Granville, Ohio.

599

Doak, W. B., farmer, Clifton Station, Va...

662

Daniel, T. Cushing, financial writer, Washington, D. C...........

764

Fischer, George, secretary Northwest Land & Home Builders' Union, Redfield,
S. Dak.

134

Fletcher, Duncan U., Senator from Florida

1

Hill, John Sprunt, Durham, N. C......

442

Hulings, Hon. Willis J., Member of Congress from Pennsylvania .
Ingalls, Hon. Sheffield, lieutenant governor of Kansas, Atchison, Kans.
Jones, Gordon, president United States National Bank, Denver, Colo..

947

784

608, 682

Jordon, Hon. Harvie, member United States Commission on Rural Credits....
King, Will R., chief counsel Reclamation Service, Washington, D. C.....
Lane, Hon. Harry, Senator from Oregon..

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Moss, Hon. Ralph W., Member of Congress from Indiana..

69, 889

Myrick, Herbert, president Orange Judd Co., Springfield, Mass

513, 965

Norris, Hon. George W., Senator from Nebraska...

915

Norton, Hon. Patrick D., Member of Congress from North Dakota.
Ousley, Clarence, editor, Fort Worth, Tex..

952

405

Quick, Herbert, editor, Springfield, Ohio.

799

Robinson, Leonard G., general manager Jewish Agricultural Industrial Aid
Society, New York, N. Y....

537

Ryan, William A., comptroller, Reclamation Service, Washington, D. C...
Scudder, S. D., banker, New York, N. Y..

932

217, 438, 825

Lubin, David,

Shibley, George H., director American Bureau of Political Research, Washington, D. C....

Southgate, Thomas S., merchant, Norfolk, Va..

Van Cortland, Robert B., retired banker and farmer.

Von Engelken, F. J. H., farmer, East Palatka, Fla..
Williams, H. Martin, Washington, D. C....

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RURAL CREDITS.

FEBRUARY 16, 1914.

UNITED STATES SENATE,
Washington, D. C.

The subcommittees assembled in joint session at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Henry F. Hollis presiding.

Present: Senator Lee and Messrs. Bulkley, Brown, Stone, Seldomridge, Weaver, Hayes, Woods and Platt.

Present also: Senator Robert L. Owen, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency.

Senator HOLLIS. Senator Fletcher, will you state your connection with the subject of rural credits up to this time, for the record?

STATEMENT OF HON. DUNCAN U. FLETCHER, A SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

Senator FLETCHER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee: As president of the Southern Commercial Congress, I had some correspondence with Mr. David Lubin, the American delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture, with headquarters in Rome, Italy, and Mr. Lubin brought this subject to my attention, and I invited him to come to our next convention in Nashville, Tenn., in April, 1912, to discuss the subject there.

Mr. Lubin replied that if we would get the consent of the State Department granting him leave of absence and assemble representatives of the different States, and give him a week there, he would be glad to come; that he did not feel like he could cross the ocean merely to make a speech at the convention. It was a good-sized undertaking, but we started into do that, and finally we got leave of absence, throught Secretary Knox, for Mr. Lubin, and we succeeded in assembling representatives from 27 States in Nashville; and Mr. Lubin came and brought all the data that he had been collecting for years, practically ever since he succeeded in establishing that international institute of agriculture, which was in 1905; and they spent six days in Nashville, studying the subject there under the guidance of Mr. Lubin.

And at our convention Mr. Lubin delivered his address, and a resolution was adopted calling on the Southern Commercial Congress to assemble a commission, to be composed of two qualified and representative men from each State, if possible, for the purpose of going to Europe and studying the various systems in operation in those countries for the benefit of agriculture primarily.

It was a good, big contract, but the resolution was adopted by our convention, and we went to work to carry it out as far as possible. I rather protested at the time that the commission was too large.

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