The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-01-26
WANTS ACTION
BY CONGRESS TO
STEADY PRICES 3
Governor Nestos Urges Action
be Taken by North Dakota
Senators and Representatives
GE0RGEs0N IN WAsHINGTN
Committee on Rural Problems
Asked to Elaborate on its.
Considerations

congressional action to stabilize
the prices Of farm products is held a
necessity in the present general condi-
Ftions by Governor R. A. Nestos.
This matter, together with others
relating to agriculture, are now be-
ing taken up in Washington by rep
resentatives of the committee on ru-
raj problems recently appointed by
the Governor. Considerable cores
pondence has passed between the Gov
ernor, members of this committee and
North Dakota Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress in the last three
weeks it was made known today.
First action in the state on abe SUBJ
ject OF congressional action was taken
at the first conference of the COM
mittee on rural problems. Hans Geor-
geson, president OF the Farm Bureau
Federation of the state and member
Of the committee on rural problems, is
acting as committee representative
and representative of the Governor in
Washington in ascertaining informa-
tion and communicating North Dakota
views on the subject Of aid to agricul-
ture.
Asks Elaboration. !.
Governor Nestos has asked Mr.
Georgeson to elaborate upon the
mill and elevator problem the freight
rate question as it relates to the mill
and elevator problem to include the
"WhCle problem of reduction Of freight
rates on farm products, coal, mater
ials and other items essential in the
up-building Of the Northwest The
Governor has suggested that Mr.. Geor-
geson and other delegates from the
Northwest attending the hearings new
being held in Washington before the
Interstate Com. Commission meet and
formulate plan by which the North
west would be adequately represent
ed before the commission. The i'm
portance of the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee tidewater project in the reduc-
tion Of freight rates on farm products
to the Atlantic seaboard has been
called to the attention Of the COM
mittee representatives in Washing
ton.s
More attention must be paid to the
potato. industry in the state inr,thes
future, Governor, Nestos believes. He
suggested that North Dakota repre-
sentatives at the agricultural confer
ence raise the question of how to in
sure proper grading and an honest
market for this product.
Wants Prices Stabilized
The first message dispatched to
North Dakota representatives in con-
gress on the subject of congressional
action to stabilize farm product prices
was sent by the Governor on January
IA, it was learned Governor NestOs
took the position in correspondence
with the Senators and Representatives
that this stabilization should be ac-
complished either through fixing Of
q minimum price for 1922 or 1923, ex-
tending credits to European cOun-
tries so as to enable them to- pur-
chase American products and aid In
the stabilization sought or other
means by which study might show
would accomplish the end desired in
an economically sound manner.
In letter to Chairman Liederbach
Of the ;Nonpartisan league in answer
to Liederbach's request to the Gov
ernor to endorse proposal for fixed
price on wheat, Governor Nestos in
formed him that the problem already
had been under consideration for
some time by the rural problems COM
mittee, Senators Ladd and McCumber,
Representatives Burtness, Sinclair
and Young and himself.
Governor Nestos expressed himself
as being hopeful that the National Ag-
ricultural conference in Washington
would evolve "a definite plan to be
taken before congress by which i'm
mediate and effectual relief may be
secured for the farmer