Arizona republican., 1921-02-10

had not spent $4,000 year in sup
port of it. To this Mr.. Heard replied
that the maximum spent in any one
year by the marketing committee was
about $4,000, while in one year SIN
gle packing company had spent $1,000
600 in advertising which was princi-
pally propaganda. He also said that
the books of the American Livestock
association are open to all the world
and every expenditure may be eX-
amined When questioned as to the
effectiveness of the interstate COM
merce commission, he referred to the
reduction in railroad rates on hve-
stock from Arizona points, which mad
been reduced from 1929 to $50 per car
from Phoenix to Los Angeles after q
fight made by the Arizona Cattle
Growers association under his presi1
dency, through the aid of the inter
state commerce commission.
Mr.. Heard was then asked what he
meant by manipulation and If ne
made such a charge against the pack
ers. He answered:
Fails of one dollar or dollar and
a quarter a hundred in the price OF
cattle in "a hours undoubtedly are the
result Of manipulation and speculative
methods!
"As TO the personnel of the commits
sion. we must have good and expert
enced men and we will have them
They have found such men in Canada
and there are just as good men IN the
United states as Canada ever saw.
They must be fair and square. and II
they should attempt to handicap the
packers I would be as much against
such men as the packers themselves.
Asks Square Deal for Speaker
AT this point Warren Peterson. cat
tleman and former member OF the
board of supervisors of Maricopa
county, arose and said:
rs this a convention of packers. by
packers and for packers. or is it con-
vention of. by. and for the cattlemen
of Arizona? I am a cattleman and
want to know where I am standing
and have q square deal given the
speaker"
This remark was greeted with con-
tinued rounds of applause. John w
Norton of Tucson then took the flool
and after a short address in favor o
reasonable federal regulation and will
the declaration that the sentiment O.
the country at large Is in favor of thu
measures therein proposed. he movee
that consideration of the resolution b.
held over until this morning at i
O'Clock. Due to the previous motion
that of the adoption of the resolution
Nortons motion was not put to tht
delegates.
Mr.. Heard then asked that thu
Gronna bill be read to the delegates
This was refused on the ground tina
1t would take some time, although
President Charles p. Mullen offered L
read two sections of it. The motion
to adopt was then put and carried b.
a viva voce vote.
After the adoption of the resolution
Murdo Mackenzie was given the floo
. and explained at length how he wa
steam rollered" at FL Paso
The resolution adopted yesterda,
follows in full;
Resolution Adopted
whereas, in this period of recon
struction, low prices and hard time
the agitation regarding the meat in
dustry, in our opinion, has seriOusl
Handicapped the cattle industry. fror
the producer to the packer has mad
Ecapital timid and curtailed the volum
of business; and
Whereas, we believe that co-opera
ton, unity of purpose and better un
derstanding between the producers {
Icattle. the feeders and packers, can b
: utilized to stabilize the meat industry
and
Whereas, we believe that to max
! the meat industry most efficient a
speculative and uncertain condition
! should be eliminated as far as possib
, and an organization worked out thS
) the producer and feeder may get tc
: Igether and the feeder and packer
i regulate the industry that a certai
z fixed number of fat cattle based upo
the demand for same may be supple
{ at all times to the packers, theret
r eliminating the flooding of the mark
+, at one time and the scarcity at al
i other, and to work out the above w