Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-24
TRADE WITNESSES
DEFEND PACKERS
Live Stock Exchange Leader
Uphoids Refrigerator
Car Operations. 80


Car Operations. 80
81 ;.e-is sS<
Refrigerator car operations of rtAAs
FIVE big packers were defended yse<s
terday before the Senate asr$euItufeF
committee. which is considering e(es
Kenyon and Kendrick bills for reg&c
lating the packing industry and the,
separation from it of the operation 4E
such cars. 's5p
c. B. Heineman. representing theg
National Live Stock Exchange. wH0
said he had been connected VINE
packer TRAFFIC departments FOR tweifS
years, said that they were not the.
source of discrimination agatnSts
wholesale grocers and other paceer
competitors. .sx
He characterized the denunciatiah
by the Federal Trade Commissieps
and others of the effects of packers
ownership of the cars as ''wfllful mig
representation or demonstrations Oh
blissful Ignorance. --rs
IS
Retailers and Producers.
Mr.. Heineman was preceded on the
stand by a series OF retailers, pre-
ducers and others, who all had obro
5ections to make to the reguiatinGr
bills. ~
Packers would just as soon haVeS
the railroads own these cars" he saidso
III it were possible for them to gete
cars when they were needed. IT -
absolutely false to say that they ses2
cure freight rate discrimination ins
favor of the packers. The Interstates
Commerce Commission has passed
upon all phases of their operation. ~
is ready today to act on any complai1fv
Goods shipped in the cars take ex'x
actly the same rate classffications 49,
those shipped in anything else"
The witness went into the detaiUf
of methods Of organizing peddle9:
car routes, by which small lots o..
packer products are distributed 10
States. ~
The only thing that could be acec
complished by abolishing those woulds
less places" he said e
Witn-ss Questioned. .
G. o. Virtue, examiner for the Fed.
eral Trade Commission. secured pers-
mission to question the witness fur
Their.
us it true that ut certain points IN
the southwest the peddler cars work
out better freight rates for their ow1-s
ers than do ordinary freight cars-s.s
isn't it?" Virtue asked. SO
Yes, but that's the fault OF thes
jobbers who don't know their busi-
ness" Haineman responded. "rheref
are no privileges the other wholeis
salers can't obtain by working QUIZ
the same system. The commerce. con-
mission sees to that. The only reascgs
the packers get better service is btss
cause they watch their cars, folioSEG
them up and keep at It. IL ovH43
q wholesale grocery house looW4s
there I'd throw out the manaEemeate
and get in a live bunch" bsxi4
Disagreement in conamittee.toisIs
James A. Henderson. a MofeaHs-
Utah, Gamer, and ]. NJ. Baker. a. Tau9ss
pa. Fla, retailer, both objected to thS.
regulation, and incidentally referred,
to amendments to the bills offered By.
Senator Moses. republican, : NeE1
Hampshire, which would require Az
business to be licensed. The commHS
tee members were drawn into q dis1i
agreement immediately. Sgt
I'm in favor Of passing upon the.
Moses amendments right away nid
Senator McNary, land throwing them
out bodily if necessary. A lotfpf bto
pie are getting alarmed at thstRs
presence. and don't understand cr1akS
nobody is seriously proposing the ft--
censing of all business" al $50.
Senator Ransdell, democrat, Or
Louisiana, objected. saying: sS.s NOOK
I'm in a judicial attitude IL eoIii
are going to license some forms se<d
business, why not consider the pfiAns
ciple Of extending them? I'm not eH5R
pressing an opinion as to the wisdom
Of either course" r az g' ssss
Senator McNary urged that fhBs
Noses amendments are makinge 9lila-
whole matter ridiculous" Chalfi6ia~
Gronna. however, said Senator M0Seey
had insisted upon their considefa ef6htS
Business Sentiment. ,5s[f.ss
Ross Bowies. for the East Side. En3S
ILL.,. and N. B. Mclean, for the cAahGas
Der OF commerce in the same eie$s5
said that business sentiment Was ffSf,
in favor OF the regulating bflis.edJ
Thurman. q Boston wholesale eifoter,g
also objected on general gfouux4s ~
"A healthy man doesn't neea meet
cine" Mr.. Thurman said. 'and ;ehoug6y
I am a grocer. I know that bdsaheseJ
conditions are all right in the couifss
try, that license restrictfonsn durfn5eI
strictive. and that the sftuatSon c{6
be safely left alone. There Hs, pfenSysi
OF competition and no monopoly ."e,se2
]. NJ Baker. Q TampG fla retksbv
grocer, said that III the big Ap4Skef1a
are closed out and we have to depend
on the independents. We might as wefH
close up. too" hSqn%s
And il you keep them out Of the
grocery business, too. you'll leave Us
In worse shape" he said.
Claims Grocery Combination. ~
He said that wholesale grocers .'are..
in some sort of combination" and.
that he had made complaint upon the"
matter to the federal district atty
torney. ~
Lewis H. Haney. a representatives
OF the Southern Wholesale Grocers
Association. was allowed to deny Thea
combination charge for that organs.
xation.
H Arthur Morgan. for the Louisiana
Farmers Union, announced that "theh
producer and packer go hand ins
hand"
'"The big packers have benefited us3
by going into louisiana" he said.-
They take care OF our stun. Wa
had the proposal up before the Ma
tfonal Farmers Union to go into the5
packing business, and voted it dowhc
because we were satisfied with con-,
ditions and knew the packers were
too efficient" 50
RAIL WAYMEN'S CIRCULAR,
is READ TO SENATEs