Arizona republican., 1921-07-09
The Farmers Legislative Program

ganizations was successful in con- vincing the senate committee on banking and currency that two bills introduced by Senator Reed Shoot of Utah, which would have killed the federal farm loan system including the joint stock land banks, should not be reported out of the committee
 An Export Corporation
 The farmers are also following very closely a bill introduced by Senator George w. Norris of Nebraska which would provide for s100, 900 900 for a government corporation which would export agricultural products. The proponents of this bill had to meet the argument that this is class legis- lation. One of their replies is that whatever helps agriculture will hasten the return of prosperity to the country. When corn on the farm in Iowa is worth only 20 cents per bushel and sells at the station for g cents, but brings S3 cents in New York City, there is someone besides the farmer interested in the industry of agriculture. they say.
 Two bills have been introduced to | assist in financing agriculture and | livestock production. One is the | Sterling bill, which would make available s100. 0.o0o.0 900 during the next l three years to be loaned by the fed | eral farm loan banks. These bills, | however, will stand little show of passing if the banking interests | carry through the program which they announced some time ago of lending s50.ooo.o0O to livestock pro- | ducers in the West.
 A bill which has been the center of attraction for some time sis the Tincher bill prohibiting the short sell- 1 ing of grain- It has passed the house and will be reported from the senate committee in the near future. All of the farm organizations have recom- mended it before the committee and it also has the approval of the secretary of agriculture. It is being bitterly fought by grain dealers.
 | For several sessions in congress the farmers have been very much in- l terested in passing bill which would make it necessary for manufacturers of woolens to mark their products so that the consumers would know the percentage of virgin wool which they i carried.
 It is claimed by the American | Farm Bureau Federation that two | thirds of the worlds woolens are l manufactured of shoddy, for only enough virgin wool is consumed an- nually to produce one third of the | OulpQl- IL QoCS HUI ObJttl AO iitC use of shoddy but it cleans that the consumer should be given the benefit of knowing what he is buying. The | Federation also wishes to unmask the | alias "all wool" All WOOL of course
 may be, and generally. is, shoddy. The bill the farmers are backing is the French Truth -in- Fabric bill. 1 Hearings on this bill have been sus- pended temporarily by the house | ,r,,if nr a o0rierrlflro
 Legislation on cold storage is again on the docket. Bills have been in- troduced by Representatives Haugen
 and Hutchison and by Senator Ere linghuysen. The farmers are inter
 ested in this legislation and in testi- l flying before the committee on agri- culture the statement was made that the Federation wishes the bill so | framed that permission will be given
 to store foodstuffs temporarily and in transit without requiring it to he | stamped "cold storage" It would
 also like to see the limit of storage
 placed at approximately one year
 from the time of production.f
 Other bills before congress in
 which the farmers are particularly | interested are the -Nolstead
 cooperative marketing bill. and bill l which would increase the amount of individual loans made by the Federal | Farm Loan banks from $10,000 to
 $25, 5000
 The Federation will be intensively
 interested in the very near future in
 bill which will be introduced to T provide for the completion of the
 Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals. Ala
 bama, and for governmentally
 owned corporation which may operate
 the nitrate plant for the manufacture
 of fertilizer during peace and muni-
 tions during war time. The Fedora
 ton approved this project after send
 ing members of their executive com
 mittee to visit Muscle Shoals last April.
 This session of congress promises
 to write more constructive agricul- , tural legislation than any other in , recent years.