The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-26

wholesale Grocers Find Packer
-,:.uosses Controlled or Afraid,
'.rcest Livestock Association
wants RegulatiOn-Farmers' Coun-
:, Warns of Attempts to Divide
uouston Takes Tile Manufacturer
Assistant-Sinclair Still Fight
~ W. for Drouth Aid Bill-Baer Asks
Improvement in Northwest Rail
Service.
Washington, D. C.-By vote of
NO - r the house on September 10
,od the bill amending certain sec
E. Of the federal farm loan act so
- eliminate red tape in the work
49, Of the farm loan association. Lit
4,e ornosition to this bill is expected
the senate and an effort will be
~.odo 70 have it ready for the presi-
1on+,s signature on his return to
wosbinpton the end of this month.
as amended by the house the fed
.,ai farm loan act now carries the
following changes:
+ The appointment OF an assist
ant registrar in each land bank dis
t;ct is provided, this official to have
authority to receive applications for
,.ons in the absence of the registrar.
? It is provided that on approval
Of loan the applicant is automatic
,l,v made a member of the farm loan
association to which his application is
.,sde His name does not have to
he voted on by the association.
8 The provision that all three
members of the loan committee of a
farm loan association shall be re-
suired to make a joint appraisal of
the land of an applicant is eliminated.
The report of the land bank appraiser
i all that is necessary for this valu-
alton.
4. 1t is provided that advance
amortization payments may be made
in denominations desired by the loan
holder.
3. The minimum farm bond is
Fixed at a 500 denomination, on the
Ground that bonds of small denomi-
nation are regarded, not as an invest.
nent but practically as currency.
PACKER WITNESSES EXPOSED
In letter sent to Senator Gronna
chairman of the senate agricultur
sernmittee, this week the Souther1
Wholesale Grocers' association give
q sharp reply to the statements o
the packer press agents in Washing
ton that out of 90 witnesses who hav
testified before the agriculture com
Kattee on the Kenyon and kendrlc
icensing bills, SO were opposed t
these measures.
In this letter Lewis H. Haney, di
rector of the research bureau Of tn
Wholesale Grocers' association, as
sats that of the SO witnesses unfay
enable to the Kenyon and Hendricks
saas are of three classes:
1. The paid employees of the bi
packers.
Q. The packer subsidized wit
HeSSeS.
6. The witnesses who are afral
Of the big packers.
Asserting that majority OF tt
% have appeared before the sena'
sosnmittee at packer expense, accor'
ing to his information, Mr.. Hane
requests that the committee "call III
Brooks Of Swift & Co., put him und'
sath, and ask him how much none
Ae Big Five packers have spent
have become obliged to pay to da
"a railroad fares. hotel bills, etc., 4
sae devoted SO witnesses"
TOCKMEN WANT REGULATE
A powerful and active propagant
.aachine built up in Washington
@e packers has been trying to CT
sSe the impression that livestock pr
sacers are opposed to the enactme
Of the Kenyon and Kendrick bills
packer control. The fact in this ca
Is that the American National Llv
stock association, one of the large
organizations of livestock produce
N the country, has heartily indors
se packer control legislation.
Commenting on the packer ca
eagn Of Misrepresentation as to
stock raisers' attitude, William ke
formerly member Of the Unit
"Vates tariff commission and n
Malrman of the national markets
committee, says:
The packers have badly overpli
u The game of trying to scare
american people into thinking Il
livestock producers will stop raisl
S'Ock after the Kenyon bill g.