Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-07
FIVE GROWERS
DEFEND PACKERS
FROM CHARGES
CattIemen Declare Trouble
Arises From Rushing Live
stock to Yards and Con-
geSting Market,

FFFfH'fN
Washington, April Give cattle
growers who said thcy were prosper.
Gus and cOntented. protested to The
house judiciary subcommittee TO-DAY
laRalnst the Borland resolution fol
investigation Of the packing industry
which has been earnestly urged by
western livestock organizations and
! individual rnisers ana feeders
I The Witnesses were J. @. Clay. Of
North Salem, Ind W y. Reynolds,
ana James Nail, Of Fort Worth, Tex
PHI S. Halner, Of Taylorvillc. His.
and Charles Clayton, Of Denver,
! Colo They insisted that AN inyestl-
gnllon not only would fail 10 prove
the existence Of packers combine.
but would tend to disturb business.
Losers IN the industry under present
conditions they maintained were men
who do not understand II or fail to
use good Judgment.
Hearing Closes Temporarily.
Tho committee closed it, hearings
temporarily tonight without acting on
the resolution or bringing about an
agreement between the packers ana
those who seek an inquiry as to the
form an Investigation should take.
within the next two weeks hearings
probably Will be resumed and repre-
acntnlivcs Of the packers viii present
further testimony IN opposition to the
Borland measure.
Mr.. Clay told the committee that
congress was not qualified to invesu-
gate the beer business If conditions
were bad ana attributed raisers trou-
blca chiefly to their own weakness
for prOlit-taking from which he did
not exempt himself.
ITS the shipping fever that caus-
Is the ups ana downs In this busl-
moss" he said "a mnn viii make q
reap profit and then
come home ana give the fever To al
his neighbors They will crowd the
markets with their cattle until the |
coolers gets SO fun Of meat II emit be
sold. Packers don't want meat then, |
md naturally the market drops
Defends the Packers.
You talk about the cunningneas Of |
hoye packcrs Well they give me a |
show. IL | want TO see what becomes /
If my cattle they win always show /
No their books
You're a friend Of the packers,
rent yOu2' asked Judge Wallace OF
Kansas city, one Of the attorneys for
he producers
We'll psed TO know old man
swift, MR. Clay responded 'but you
NOV where business begins friend
hip ceases'
Walter I. Fisher, another attorney
or the producers, asked the witness
what he thought Of report from the
purdue university experiment station
N cattle raising that was contrary to
ar Clay's testimony.
oh, ! read the reports Of expert
nent stations he said, but thoy us
Ially lose money SO | don't 80 by
hem"
only Lambs Lose Money.
Mr.. Nail, who owns 100000 acres
I Texas land said all eattlemen
lude money except the lambs who
ere usually doctors and lawyers who
auHhl cattle IN competition with All
10 world, bought feed, lived IN ho-
lis and shipped half-finished cattle
J Chicago.
There was heated debate over I
neither a resolution had been
ioptod by the Texas State Growers S
ssoclaton suggesting postponement G
governmental inquiry until the $
lckers and producers had sought to c
title their differences K. l.. Nc f
anus, attorney for Swift a CO., sub a
lifted such a resolution and declared a
had been adopted. AIR Fisher and II
hers said it had not 4
Arthur Mcekcr, vice president OF
fmour q Co, predicted during the +
'aring that the cessation of hostile !
rs IN Europe would make bettur
arket for live cattle abroad