During the war those of us in the State of Louisiana Who had a little influence were put to work persuading the people to increase their production. The Senator from Utah has referred to the fact that the Orient was still shipping its rice here. It could. in a measure. but our ships were out of that market. and the Asiatic bottoms were carrying other things besides rice. and they could not have brought to us the whole quantity which they produced at that time. We know that the whole world was stimulated In the production of agricultural products. and when the war ended there came an accumulation of rice upon us. which the emergency tariff law stopped to a large extent. To say that we are exporters of rice is not true in the common acceptation of that term. because we export ice which the American consumer will not buy.