Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-03
TELLS Or PACKERS PROBE
/. MADE FOR THE PRESIDENT
Witness Before Senate Committee dc.
49, scrlbcs Defeat Of Government
Control OF Industry.
+ CRITICIZES MEAT HANDLING
Texas Cattlcman Says Big Dealers
Would Serve Public Better II Re-
tailcrs We're Entirely Dispensed
With in the Trade.
lnv Associa,nl r,csal

WASHlNGTON, Sept. 2-Plans for
governmental operation of the plants
and distributing systems of the big
" five" packers during the war received
serious consideration. but were dropped
. when "A majority Of special commit
rec reporting Oh the subject TO Presi
dent Wilson rejected the proposal it
, VAS developed today through tcSn-
mory before the Senate Agriculture
Committee
81 SAMSON. Texas cnttlcman. who
served on the committee AS a repre-
sentative Of the Agriculture Depart
mcnt. appearing at the hearings TO
Oppose passage Of the kenyon AN. ana
tion of the packing Industry. referred
casually to the subject. and Senate
members. overcoming Mr.. Sansom's OBJ
jcctons TO discussing the matter be
Gauge the President had not published
the report, questioned him until they
got the fun story.
-e Probcd Subject for President.
After tho Federal Trade commits
sion made itS report upon the pack ing
b situation. a committee was appointed
10 go into the subject for tire Presi-
dent, which h.l on 1t representatives
f, OF the Agricultural Department, the
food administration. Labor Department
and the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion" said Sansom They nut me on
for the Agriculture Department. be-
cause Was supposed TO know about
atockyards and csttlc handling. After
We went into 1t pretty thoroughly We
Two Of the committee. represents.
owes OF the Abr Department and the
take over the plants. bu, the balance
Of us were against il. The Trade Com
b. mIssion .represcn,atires seemed to be
ing the packers"
+. You say they were proserutors?"
Senator Eansdcll. Democrat, Louisiana.
Thinks The, w.rc rrcjudIced.
Well. hardly meant that" San
som responded. ''TheAwcre prcjudlccd
perhaps because Of their invcstisa
Mr.. Sansom in opposing the regula
TORY DIS. also developed an entirely
ho!el solution FOR the high price OF
meat problems
NY investigation has convinced mo
mat the large packer has not gone as
a. az w m'tn , ne iheh, and food business
ought 10 carry the meat s,raipL.
through 70 the consumer. and cut out
and and f cheansr THsY rG r9nid do i, bette
rom 90 TO 100 per cent Increase 10
get th< meats through the butcher
shop. In my town there POI con-
there are IOr. We know that meat is
too nigh to the consumer.
ness me yne pa oh ~ ga ne retail bust
and We got complaints on high prices.
hs We are getting them now, It would
o''"p'' 10 Hnu OUT the II
VINO was prOiiieer!ng"
Motives Under DIscu.sion.
y confic: az 20 the motives OF vii
hesses VINO nave appeared during tho
nearing was prectp!tHted earlier i'm the
utE. "hen senator Kenyon. Republican
IOWA. author o! the principal b!ll a,
ISSUE. introduced TWO letters for the
record. One from j. q. Miller. OF Den
YER asserted that Colorado packers
VINO cIassed themselves as indcperdeni,
IN opposing the legislation last week.
'chi!y We're connected with the Larger
harvey Nuckolls. owner OF a plan,
~ iuEDio: Col! Was named AS one OF
Inose having such connections Henry
~ ceder. counsel for Swift a. Co IN
tefTlptcd the proceedings Il little I.tcr.
nehied the assertion for all OF The
packers. and introduced NuckoIis, who
$50 denied IL frtly.
Tnr second letter from j. c. Morrow.
81 Alliance. Neb. said that cattiemen
inc contentious OF the big packer.
were pcopic who secured special favors
III HlaEket!nS their Stoch
number OF independent PACKERS
"were heard during the day. and
Michae! Ryan. OF Cincinnati. presented
ihe con- m!,t"c with a set OF resolutions
adopted by small packers in thar rjtT
ob)ecinS TO tho legislation