The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-11
FARMERS TAKE
!. GRIEVANCES TO
WASHINGTON
Administration and Congress
SIGNAL Leaders Seek Method
Of Farm Relief

II Washington. Jan. IL. WI Inc
: corn belt farmers brought their
grievances To Washington today. and
beth the Coolidge administration and
the leaders in congress bestirred
themselves To provide some method
Of farm relief.
Secretary Jardine Of the agricui-
ture department. who recently en-
,.orsed III principle Il surplus market
ing bill drafted by western members
Of congress. called into conference ::
group Of agricultural editors and
others prominent in farm organiza-
tious, and sought their advice as To
details Of the troublesome surplus
crop problem.
At the same time the house agri-
cultural committee was called to-
gether to hear the opinions of other
wcsterners and the senate agricul-
turc comm ittcc, at it's first meeting
since congress convened. began to
piece out the beginnings Of Il relief
program Of its own.
LOwden Central Figure
Frank o. Lowdcn Of Illinois. in
1920 formidable candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination
and four years later the party's first
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central figure in today's succession
Of conferences and an influence Of
recognized potentially in all Of the
relief preparations. For several
years he has devoted his major effort
to the question of improving the
condition Of western agriculture and
his views are being sought eagerly by
those of all political faiths, both in
and out Of congress.
Mr.. Lowden came TO Washington
to attend a meeting of the national
council Of cooperative associations,
beginning tomorrow under the chair
manship Of Judge Robert W. Bling
ham of Louisville. Many other lead
ers Of the cooperative movement also
are in the capital.
Marketing Bill Declared Inadequate
Today's activities ran the whole
scale of outstanding farm problems.
For the time being the subject of
immediate consideration before the
congressional committees was the ad-
ministration cooperative marketing
bill, which u powerful group of west
ern senator's and representatives,
some of them Republican stalwarts,
have pronounced wholly inadequate
to meet present conditions. Mr.. Jar
dimes conference was devoted pri-
marily to the surplus crop question,
but his confcrees did not neglect the
opportunity to present to him the
full force of the complaint of the
agricultural west against many ele-
inents Of present day industrial and
political tendencies.
Before his conference with the
farm editors got under way, Secre
fnry Jardine went to the capitol t.
appear as the first witness before
he house agriculture committee. HI
gave his approval to the Haugen bill
to establish q division of coopcrativ.
marketing in the department Of agri
culture.
Are Not Cooperating
Cooperative marketing. he said, wa
Fundamentally sound" hut he add
ed:
1.-THE cOOperatives have not beer
cooperating. There must be coopcra
ton among farmers and their organ
izations, and the department stand
ready to help"
Must Stop agriculture Mortality"
Mr.. Jardine declared some wa
must be found to stop "agrichltur
mortality" Representative Doyle
Democrat. Illinois. said billions wer
invested in the marketing Of live
stock in Chicago. and this inte.es
had mot been considered" in prefer
entail treatment accorded co-Opera
tive organizations. He asserted tn
Chicago interests had been left t
shift for themselves"
The Secretary said there was n
discrimination in the present bill
against any agency Of agriculture.
Representative Aswell. Democra
Louisiana, asked whether the purpos
Of the bill "could be. accomplishe
without creating any more bureaus.
1--WE have 93 here now" he sale
He suggested that the Secretar
could organize the work without leg
islation.
POSSIBLY could" replied Mr.. Jal
dine, "but l think congress shout
stand behind the cooperative move
ment. The best minds on co-opers
tive agriculture have been consul'
ed, and they consider this bill tn
wisest solution Of the problem.