Evening star., 1939-06-17
Milk Probers
Vote 10 Open
DC. Market
Schultz Wins Victory;
Report to Full House
Group Due Monday

Representative Schultz, Democrat
OF Indiana, won a victory before
the House Milk Investigation Com
mittee today when the committee
approved his proposal to open the
Washington milk market to prod
ucts outside the local milkshed.
The committee voted for the
Schultz bill to 2, and will submit
report to the full House District
Committee Monday.
The Milk Committee, however, In
adopting the report of J. Edward
Burroughs, committee counsel, struck
out certain conclusions of the report.
Although the subcommittee struck
out the conclusions in the milk in
vestigation report, Representative
Bates, Democrat, of Kentucky. sub
committee chairman, announced he
still planned to introduce his bill
which would create a milk control
board.
Wants Remedial Action.
The subcommittee in adopting the
report without the specific recon-
mendations of its counsel, proposed,
however, that remedial legislation
be passed to correct this unsatisfac-
tory condition"
Representative Schulte's report on
the milk situation which occupied
the time of the subcommittee for
most of its executive session this
morning, according to Chairman
Bates, was rejected although his
bill for opening the milk market
was favorably reported.
Representative Schultz indicated
he would file his report as a minor
ity report of the subcommittee.
"As soon as the market is opened,
and the present monopoly is de-
stroyed," Representative Schultz
said, "the price of milk in Washing
ton will be reduced from IA to IL
cents a quart"
1t was Mr.. Schultz, who yester-
day raised point of order in the
committee meeting which prevented
adoption of report strongly op-
posing opening of the Washington
milk market to milk and cream
from any section of the country.
The report also recommended crea-
ton of special milk board to fix
and control prices to both consum.
ers and producers.
Representative Schultz said his
report likewise would recommend
substitution of the milk code Of the
United States Public Health Serv.
ice for the present drastic District
milk law.
Five Member Board Urged.
Representative Bates yesterday
revealed to newspapermen the text
OF bill he has drafted to puts its
recommendations into effect.
The Milk Control Board, under
provisions of his bill, would be
composed of five members with
the health officer serving in an
ex-officio capacity. TWO Of the
members would represent con-
sumers, two the producers and the
fifth, the distributors.
Members Of the board would be
appointed by the Commissioners
for a term of five years. The COM
pensation would be SIS for each
meeting with the annual maximum
salary fixed at $1,000.
The board also would be given
complete control of the production
and distribution of milk which now
is vested in the Health Department.
The health officer, as an ex-oficio
member of the board, would Be per-
mltted to vote only in matters in
volving public health.
First Endorsement of the propo-
sal for creation of a milk control
board came from John F. Hill
yard, counsel for the Wakefield
Dairy. His Endorsement will be
placed in the record of the hear
ings in connection with the milk
investigation.
Such a commission will In our
opinion" Mr.. Hillyard told the
committee, correct many of the
conditions that now exist which are
at the present time causing dis
satisfaction between the producer.
distributor and the consumer.
If commission of this kind
were created and given power and
authority to act, they could estab-
lish prices that the distributor
would pay to the producer and re-
ceive from the consumer, that would
afford the producer and distributor
a reasonable profit, and establish a
selling price for milk products that
would be fair to the consumer"