The Topeka state journal., 1921-02-26
Arrangements Under Way to
Locate Office Here.
To Eliminate Part Cost of
Shipping Livestock.
CHARGE SMALL COMMISSION
May Work Out System of Local
Markets.
Recent Resolutions Ask Legis-
lati0n to Help Industry.

Arrangements are now under way
TO establish a livestock marketing bu-
reau here in connection with the Of
fice of j. H Mercer, secretary of the
Kansas Livestock association. The as
sociation passed a resolution authoriz-
ing creation of the bureau at the Sa-
lima convention recently. 1t is hoped
the bureau will be able to eliminate a
considerable part of the cost of ship
ping stockers and feeder cattle, hogs
and sheep to and from the central
markets The burc-a will charge a
small commission for its services.
A live stock survey Of Kansas a
short time ago disclosed the striking
fact that SO per cent of those who sell
stockers and feeders ship them to
Kansas City, st. Joseph or Wichita.
while 50 per cent of those who buy
get them from the same markets The
bureau may work out a system of local
markets for the exchange of stockers
and feeders. A plan which has been
developed in Brown county Is to have
periodic cooperative livestock auction
sales
To Help Livestock Industry.
The association in convention
adopted resolutions favoring legisla-
eion designed 10 renaDlHtate the i've
stock industry. The resolutions.
Endorse the emergency tariff legis-
lation and ask for a tariff based on
the difference in cost of production
at home and abroad which will pro-
tect the livestock industry in the
United States from the disastrous in
vasion of foreign livestock and live
stock products.
Request repeal of the transporta-
ton act which authorizes rate fixing
to guarantee a per cent return to
railroads ION an inflated and unreal
value at the expense of the bankrupt
cy of the farmer and stock raiser, and
producing a general stagnation OF
| business to its manifest ruin"
Urge especially that congress
promptly amend the transportation act
SO that the rights of the states shall
be defined and preserved to exercise
| their full Jurisdiction over transporta-
tion wholly between points within the
state, and not set aside except by a
court of competent Jurisdiction upor
proof of actual and real unjust and
unreasonable discrimination against
| interstate commerce"
Commend Senators Capper and Cur.
tbs in voting for the Gronna bill which
has for its purpose the regulation ot
the packers, stockyard companies. live
| stock commission merchants ant
traders.
| Urge enactment by the Kansas leg
fslature of the Burdick bill for regu
| iatfon of Kansas stockyards by tht
| recreated public utilities commission
relieving the livestock industry of ex
| cessive charges for services rendered
at public stockyards and giving some
method of control over the practices
| of all operators in such yards"
Endorse action of the association
board of directors in establishing a
| separate department for collection oi
claims Of the association members and
tauthorizing a schedule of fees.
Petition the United States supreme
court for an early decision as to the
constitutionality of the federal farm
| loan act. operation of which has beer
suspended pending decision.
Endorse the work of the National
Defense League and condemn Town
| ley and his associates, urging that
| they be given no consideration by the
farmers and stockmen of the state"