Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-09
IOWA PACKER TELLS HOUSE
COMMITTEE REASONS FOR
PRESENT VALUES.
STRONGLY OPPOSED
TO FEDERAL CONTROL
Says so Per Cent Of Industry Would
Be Forced 70 Quit Under Rigid
Government Regulation = Soldier
Bonus Continues to De Important
Question Before Committees.
IBy Il. G. Dougherty.l

Wa! hington. March 9.--The present
high prices of beef and cattle Is d.
rectly traceable TO the heavy exports
to Great Britain and continental
Europe. +. I. Fuller, president Of the
Iowa Packing Company. OF Des Moin-
es. told the House committee on agri-
culture in testyf?ing on proposed
hacker regulatory legislation.
Fifty per cent OF the meat pack.
ers of the country would he ruined
under rigid government supervision
or control of the industry Mr.. Full
Ter said. He urged ordination OF
federal agencies dealing with the
marketing or fresh meats to brine
production 10 the greatest capacit!
which. he contended. would ebrinP
reasonable prices.
Government red, tape, discrimina-
ton in inspection laws and IN the
ndministra ton OF frcirht rates by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
we're declared by Mr.. Fuller. to be
reasons for the LOGS of 20 per cent
in the price OF prcductr and addition
~ this amount to the cost to the con-
sumner. He recommended that re-
frigerator car. facilities be owned
and operated by the packers in or
der that supply of cars would be
always available. RE opposed the rec
ommcndatiOn Of the Federal Trad"
Commission for tho control and ope-
ration of refrigerator cars by the
government.
In discussing the hi"h price OF
beef and cattle. Mr.. Friller said the
slight fall in the quotations Of last
summer were due entirely to the
fact that exports had decreased.
Solder Bonus Up Again.
The all-important subject of bonus
for soldiers. which has been before
the house ways and means COM
mittee practically all the past week
has been given a new turn by reso-
luton just introduced by Represen-
tative Royal Johnson. or South Da-
kota. formerly lieutenant In the
service. and now one Of the most out
spoken members of the house in fav-
or Of some sort OF relief for former
service men. Mr.. Johnson's resolu-
ton calls on Secretary of War Baker
to inform the WAYS and means COM
mittee If the $4,000 900 900 he (Bak-
cry. recently said WIS saved by the
war department on the sale OF sur
plus war materials is available for
the payment of soldiers bonuses. Mr.
Johnson. in fact. does not believe
that the war department 'fay-
ed" any sum on war materials
On the other hand as chairman OF
subcommittee on expenditures OF
the war department he asserts that
he has already ascertained that the
department spent prndigiors sum
of money for war materials and was
lav'shly extravasant instead OF
economical.
Prominent in the examination Of
Witnesses before the ways and
means committee during the weel'
, has heer Representative Green. OF
the Ninth Iowa district. judge Green
1T one stage in the proceedings dis
agreed with one Of the soldier-wit
resses who said that unemployment
among former service men was acute
| Mr.. Green remarked that Iowa farm
ars have ever since the entrance Of
the United States in the war suffered
| from shortage Of labor and show
ed that it was impossible for al