Evening star., 1945-05-15
SenateReport
'Raps s0PA;
For Food Gar
Only Two Dissenters
In Committee Call
Criticism Too Harsh
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Creation of "a supreme ad-
ministrator for food" was recon-
mended by the Senate Agricul-
ture Committee today in a
report sharply critical of OPA's
administration.
The committee approved the re-
port by a 13-to-2 vote. Senators
Lucas, Democrat, of Illinois and FL
lender, Democrat, of Louisiana dis
sented on grounds the report was too
critical of the administration.
THE committee believes that the
Office of Price Administration has
failed miserably to enforce price and
ration control regulations, the re-
port said.
The committee recommended that
when any commodity becomes
plentiful so that the law of supply
and demand can operate to keep the
prices within reason" all con-
troll prices and restrictions should
be removed
Steps Recommended.
AS steps to improve the supply
and distribution of meat, the COM
mittee recommended:
Il. A forthwith increase in the re-
turn to feeders of 'AA and "A grades
of cattle through a fair and suffi-
cient subsidy to feeders to encourage
them to feed range cattle to the
maximum degree.
$50
gram to encourage, during the spring
and early summer, the marketing of
more grass and unproductive dairy
cattle
3. Raising the support price Of
hogs and extending support prices to
cover all weights of hogs.
-. That assurance be given pro-
ducers that support prices and CELL
ings for livestock will not be lowered
unless adequate notice of such
change be given.
IS. That the Price Control Act be
amended to require and direct the
OPA to give professors of livestock
a reasonable margin of profit for
processing each species of live
stock
Cut in Slaughtering Permits.
"6. The withdrawal of all slaugh-
terlng licenses and permits and a
sharp reduction in the number re-
issued together with restrictions on
slaughter by use of quotas so that
meat will be directed into the nor
NAL interstate channels of distribu-
ton
u. The limiting of lease-lend pur-
chases Of meat products consistent
with domestic civilian supply
g. That the Price Control Act be
further amended to direct the ad-
ministrator to proceed without delay
to remove all price controls and reg
ulations from any and all commodi-
ties just as fast as any such COM
modify becomes sufficiently plentiful
so as to permit the law of supply
and demand to operate to keep the
price of any such commodity within
the range of the cost of production
F.! plus reasonable profit.
g. The committee recommends
that a supreme administrator for
| food be created to have supervision
and jurisdiction over both the Office
of Price Administrator and the War
Food Administration"
Lucas Statement.
Senator Lucas issued a statement
saying he agreed with some find
ings and recommendations but
thought the report on the whole
too drastic, too severe and too far
reaching"
1T is in keeping with the danger
Gus theory now being advocated by
certain special interests in this
country to the end that the Price
Control Act be repealed he con-
tinued. IF these recommendations
and findings are adopted, they would
go a long way in aiding the begin
ming of spiral of imitation that
will ultimately wreck the financial
structure of the Nation"
Earlier today the House Food
Committee insisted the administra-
ton remove secrecy bans from fig
ures on amounts of world-scarce
sugar promised Allied and neutral
countries.
Chairman Anderson renewed his
request for publication of world
quota figures as the committee COM
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