The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-17
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proposes answering for himself. with a
bill which will be introduced tonight
when the bars are thrown down and
the senate proceeds to start stacking
up work for itself.
Senator Green's bill is designed to
stop the board of trade gambling in
it punishable to sell wheat which the
seller does not have, and is not able
to deliver.
The bill is modelled along the lines
which have been FOLLOWED in the cam
paign against the Chicago board of
trade waged by Senator Arthur Cap
per. =
Furthermore, it will have q provi-
sion whereby the buyer of wheat fu-
ture, for delivery at later date. can
of the market between the date of the
deal and the date of delivery. vary
too widely.
Lost Huge Sums on Wheat.
II have seen men stand at the
counter of a board of trade, and buy
wheat on margin. Before they got
receipt for their orders 1 have
seen the fluctuations of the market
wipe out the entire sum which they
had invested" Senator Green said in
discussing his bill.
1.-The provision which 1 have mem
toned will enable the stockman,
the farmer, or the feeder, to buy
felt will not be taken from him be-
tween the date he buys the grain and
the date it is delivered, by changes in
the market. 1t means that he won't
have to go on and on putting up
margins to hold his grain"
Senator Green is a member of the
executive committee of the joint con-
ference of the farmer members of the
senate and the house of representa-
tives. but he says that his bill is to be
introduced Independently of that con-
ference.
next meeting of the conference is not
to be, held until Tuesday morning.
Good Chance for Passage.
With the strength which the agri-
cultural interests of the legislature
have already shown. if the bill appeals
to them, it is quite possible that its
chances for passage are good, and that
the boards of trade in the state are
doomed, SO far as wheat speculation is
concerned.
Senator Green is convinced that
gam bling in futures has done a great
deal of harm TO the farmers in the
state, and believes that his bill Will
remedy this condition.
State Market Bureau.
AS one of the means of coping with
the marketing question-admlttedi
the biggest question before the farm
ers of the state of Kansas today, a
state market bureau is suggested in a
bill which is to be introduced by
Sen. Gordon A. Badger during the
present session.
The field of cooperative marketing
of products is not entered by the bu-
reau which would be established under
Senator Badgers bill. The body would
be charged only the collection and dis
tribution of information of value to
the farmer who has something to SELL
or who wants to buy something.
Where the highest prices are being
paid for the produce which he has to
dispose of. where he can get the class
of animals he wants for feeding, and
similar questions would be answered
free of charge by the bureau which is
contemplated.
The bureau would act as clearing
house for information for the farmers,
organizations of the state, and would
not interfere with their functions,
rather assisting them.
MohIer Fayors Measure.
The functions of the bureau would
be increased as its establishment be-
came more fixed.
J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has declared
| himself in favor of some such an
agency for the assistance of the farm
! ers.
The director of the bureau. under
| the present plan, would be appointed
and woufd work in cooperation with
the state board of agriculture.
Drawing the inference from story
in a morning newspaper that the writ
I err of the article considered the senate
| a bunch of long cared mules" be-
cause he says they may receive their
medical attention from DR.. F. M. Wat
hins of Cherryvale. and Doctor Wat
kins happens to be a veterinarian
| Sen. Huey r. Green of Elk county
| says that ''if they are mules. they are
! very tame mules, judging from the
| record they have made SO far. But
as they are young and fresh from the
barnyard it is possible that they have
touch of shipping fever. If the resi-
dents of the capital city are disturbed
! during the coming week they will
know that the Legislators have recoy-
! cred from their ailment and the LONG
cared aggregation has begun to kick
up its heels and bray"
The reference to the senate as al
aggregation of mules is only pardon
able because it originated with Sen
ator Green and is here used in quota
ton from him. But the senator has
sized the situation up.
/ Beginning at o'clock this after
noon, there will be. to pursue Senator
Green's simile, a right smart lot OF
braying and the impact of heel.
against legislatorial ribs will doubt
! less resound.