Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-06-18
HOUSE PACKER BILL
PASSED By SENATE
Measure is Adopted by 1921
Vote After Being
Amended
GOES TO LOWER BODY
Called Teeth of Measure--Against
Manipulation of Prices ard Decep-
tive Practices

Washington, June Is The long
fight in Congress over legislation to
regulate the packing industry was
virtually ended today through adop-
ton by the Senate, 45 to q, of the
regulatory bill recentlv passed by
the House. Several amendments by
the Senate cessitate return of the
bill to the House, which probably will
order it sent to conference.
Passage of the House bill came
after seven days of continuous and
heated debate and after the Senate
! had voted down the bill reported by
its Agriculture Committee and a
measure offered by Senator Sterling,
| Republican, South Dakota. The
House bill as passed provides for
regulation of the mea; packers of
the country by the Secretary of Ag-
, riculture The Agriculture Com
mittee bill, which provided for regu-
lation by live stock commissioner,
was rejected 81 to "a yesterday and
toady was defeated again "a to 81.
The Sterling bill, with provisions
similar 10 the committee measure
except for regulation by the Federal
Trade Commission went down to
defeat, 33 10 81.
The House bill on the final roll call
was supported by 81 Republicans
and Is Democrats and opposed by
Is Republicans aud six Democrats.
Senator Weller, of Maryland, was
among those opposing the bill. The
roll call follows:
Rcpublicans-Borah. Bursum,
Capper, Cummings, Curtis, Ernst,
Frelinghuysen, Gooding, Harreld,
Johnson, Jones (Washington), Ken
yon- La Toilette, Lenroot, Lodge,
Mccormick, Mccumbcr, McNarry,
Nelson, Nicholson. Norris, Oddie,
Poindexter, Shortridgc, Spencer,
Sterling and Sutherland-27.
emocrats-Ashurst, Caraway,
Gerry, Glass. Harris, Heflin, Jones
New Mexicol, Kendrick, Myers,
Overman, Owen. Pittman, Shep-
pard, Swanson, Trammel, Walsh,
Massachusetts, Walsh Montana,
and Watson Georgia, -1S.
Total, As.
Observation-Disclosures, Cam
eron, Dillingham;. Edge, Fernald,
Keyes, Knox, Mclean, New, Phlpps,
Smoot, Wadsworth. Warren, Wat
eson, Indiana, and Weller-l5.
-Broussard, Dial,
King, Stanley, Underwood and Will
| liams-6.
Total, 81.
The more important amendments
made by the Senate included one by
Senator Kenyon, Republican, Iowa,
requiring packers and stockyard op-
orators to keep such records and
statements of account US the Secre-
tary of Agriculture may require and
authorizing the Secretary to pre-
scribe Uniform methods of account
;np and to examine business meth
DDS. Incertion Of this amendment
was described by packer regulation
forces as having put teeth in the
House bill" Anothcl' amendment
adopted is designed to remove the
small butcher fr1m the regulation.
The bill as passed forpids the pack
ers to engage in unfair or deceptive
devices or practices, to apportion the
supply by interdealing, to restrain
commerce or create monopoly, or to
manipulate prices by interdealing. Il
also prohibits stockyard operators
from charging unreasonable rates OF
engaging in deceptive practices.
l. TheaHouse bill during the debate
in the Senate generally was described
as less; drastic than the Agriculture
Committee measure, and Senator Ls
Toilette, Republican, Wisconsin
charged that it5had Leen writer
in part by the packers. The Wis
consin. Senator ratcd fos the H6ust
bill on the final s:ol! call and latei