The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-02-27
MEASURES VIRTUALLY COPIED
FROM THE DAKOTA LAWS
RECENTLY ENACTED
SCOPE OF MEASURES IS BROAD
IN CHARACTER
Director of Farm Bureau to Receive
Exhaustive Reports from Corpora
tiOns ard Persons Dealing in Farm
Produce.
(Editorial Correspondencel


BOISE, Feb. 26-No more radical
farm legislation can be found on the
statutes of any state in the union
than the six measures passed by the
house of representatives. These mea-
sures are virtually copies of the dras-
tic farm laws of Dakota, where their
enactment was accomplished only af
ter the farmers had seized the iegis-
lative machinery of the state.
The scope of the measure is broad,
and the authority and power given to
the director of the state farm mar
kets bureau is unparalleled in any
other branch of the state government.
All persons or corporations dealing
in farm produce of any sorc, thresher-
men, seed hullers, cooperative assO-
Citations, cheese factories and crea n
cries are required to supply such re
ports to the directors of farm mar
kets as this official may require; and
their books, records and transactions
are all subject to his inspection.
County assessors are required to col
lect data for the bureau; standardized
tiOn of farm products is provided for;
and heavy nenalities established for
violations of these acts.
The bill which raised the most OBJ
lection was the one making it unlaW-
ful for any person or corporation buy
ing or selling farm produce to dis
criminate in prices on the same day
in different localities, except for the
actual difference in the cost of trans
portation between the two or more
places where produce is bought OF
sold. Thus, if a warehouse is paying
s1.15 at Twin Falls for wheat on 9
certain dav its price at Bull on the
same day must be only the difference
in the cost Of transportation between
the two places. The purpose of this
measure is to protect the co-ODerativC
organizations from the price discrim-
inatiOn Dracticed by large concerns
On roll call the bill passed by So tC
II; the Twin Falls delegation voting
for the measure. Members of the
house voting against the bill were
Republicans. AdamsOn, Anderson O.
Latah, BOhman, Miles; Democrats. An
dersOn of Canyon, Bates, Gothry. Lehr
bas, Hitchcock, McMullen and Sey
mour.
An attempt by Republican Floor
Leader MCGOWAN to reconsider was
defeated by a vote of 45 to II.
Standards. brands and grades fol
farm products are to be established by
the farm bureau. by the terms of bl
made for the appointment of deputies
who will grade such products upoI
application for a farmer, the fee foi
such service to be paid by the appli
cant. 1t is unlawful for anyone t
use the distinguishing marks of tl'
bureau. This bill passed without oppo
sitiOn.
Another act gives the director o
farm markets authority to subpoena
witnesses and hold hearings. and t.
compel persons and corporations en-
gagged in business of marketing farm
products to prepare and submit re
ports pertaining to their business.
House bill so, requires county as
SCISSORS to collect data at the time o
making assessments, and other infor
nation relating to agriculture and hor
ticulture. and to gather any other in
formation that may be required by tn