The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-17
FARMERS HAVE LONG LIST OF
 LEGISLATION
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

| congress. The farmers are backed in their demands for legislation favor able to their class by one of the best organized and most powerful Hobbies in Washington. There is not farmers national organization of any kind in this country that is not now represented by competent agents in Washington, and back of these agents are the millions of organized tillers of the soil. The farmers lobby is even more numerous and powerful than the soldiers Hobbies, of which there are half dozen here all work ing for bonus, pensions, and other 1 Legislation of benefit to the veterans. The farmers know what they want from congress, they have a definite program, and they are going to use every effort to have that program enacted into law. It includes: An antigrain gambling bill, which would practically destroy all the great grain exchanges, or at least eliminate gambling in futures and manipulations of grain stocks from these exchanges. A similar bill would regulate the cotton exchanges. Cooperative marketing of agricul- tural products-along the line of the highly successful citrus fruit ex- change of California and Florida. These are private enterprises. The farmers would have cooperative marketing under the control of the federal government.
 Immediate passage of an emergency tariff protecting all farm products from foreign competition. An emer- gency tariff bill will be passed early in this session
 The same kind of protection in the permanent tariff bill that will be enacted after the emergency tariff bill is passed. The permanent tariff bill is expected to become law about | the middle of next August
 Pure fabrics legislation of some kind planned to protect the wool growers. The growers want an inn mediate embargo placed on wool ex- ports to this country
 Encouragement of the railroad laws so that freight rates may be lowered, which would give the farmers more profits on everything they sell and enable them to buy everything cheap CT Incidentally such legislation would be certain to lower the high cost of living.
 A packers bill to regulate the meat barons. The cattle growers claim that without this legislation they are at the mercy of the packers and cannot make living raising cat tle
 In the new congress there are many senators and representatives from agricultural districts. These congressman believe that the farm CTS are as much entitled to legitimate protection in the temporary and per- manent tariff bills as labor and the manufacturers. They intend to see to it that the farmers receive this protection in the tariff bills Some congressman, from districts that are in the proposition to protect farm pro- ducts in the tariff bills on the ground almost wholly industrial, will oppose that their constituencies, being con- sumers and not producers of agricul- tural products, would have to pay higher prices for farm products if such products are protected in the bills.
 Three of the proposed bills were introduced and discussed in the last congress but failed of passage These were the Capper cooperative market ing bill, another Capper measure against grain gambling and the Ken yon-Kendrick meat packers bill. All three measures have been introduced again in this session.
 The farmers representative mean business. Agents of the various or ganizations are holding daily confer ences here, and it is expected that within few days they will hold a combined conference and agree on a definite program that all can sup port. This program will certainly in- clude the proposed legislation de- scribed at the beginning of this article, and perhaps other legisla- tion beneficial to the agricultural in- terests that has not yet been dis cussed.
 Agents of the farm organizations here claim that the agricultural in- terests of the country are in a bad way. High freight rates are throt- | ting the farm business so that many