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Show wlio secured special favors in market-in; market-in; their stock. A number of independent packers were heard during the day, and Michael Ryan, of Cincinnati, presented the committee com-mittee with a set of resolutions adopted by small packers in that city, object-ine object-ine to the legislation. I PMffi CONTROL : piijpsie ; Alember of Special Committee Com-mittee Reveals Story Be-! Be-! fore Senate Committee. Advocates Elimination of ! Retailer to Cut Down Food Prices. WASHINGTON", Sept. 2. Plans for i Rovernmental operation of tho plants and distributing systems of the "big five" packers during the war received serious consideration, but were dropped when a majority of a special committee commit-tee reporting on the subject to President : Wilson rejected tho proposal, it was developed de-veloped today through testimony before the nonato agriculture committee. M. Sansom, a Texas .cattle man, who served on the committee as a representative repre-sentative of tho agriculture department, depart-ment, appearing at the hearings to op-po; op-po; passago of the Kenyon and Ken-drick Ken-drick bills for tho federal regulation ; of the packing industry, referred casually casu-ally to tho subject; and senate members, mem-bers, overcoming Mr. Sansom :s objoc-tions objoc-tions to discussing the matter because the president had not published the report, re-port, questionod him until they got tho full story. "After tho federal trndo commission mado its report upon tho packing situation, situ-ation, a committee was appointed to go into the subject for the president, which had on it representatives of the agricultural department, the food nd-' nd-' : ministration, labor department and the ; interstate commerce commission," Sansom San-som said, "they put me on for the agricultural department, because I was '; supposed to know about stockyards and cattle handling. After wo went into 1 it pretty thoroughly we divided up. : Vote for U. S. Control. "The committee, representatives of the labor department and the federal . trade commission, voted to tnko over the plants, but the balance of us were against it. The trade commission representatives rep-resentatives seemed to be pretty severo at tho time for prosecuting the pack- : ers." "You say they were prosecutors?" :: Senator RanscWl, Democrat, Louisiana, , :, inquired. "Well, I hardly meant that," San-1 San-1 som responded. "They wero prejudiced, preju-diced, perhaps, because of their lnves-j lnves-j tigations." i Mr. Sansom, in opposing tho regu-i regu-i latorv bills, also developed an entirely ' novel solution for the high price of meat problems. "Mv investigation has convinced me i that the large packer has not gone as ' far with the meat and food business 1 as he ought to go," he said. "They :, ought to carry the meat straight through ; to the consumer and cut out the re-' re-' tailer. They could do it better and ; cheaper. I've found that takes from 50 to 100 per cent increase to got the ; meats through the butcher shop. 1 "If the packers did the retail busi-; busi-; ness with more efficiency, fewer shops, and we got complaints on high prices, i as we arc getting them now, it would ! lie a simple matter to find out then who was profiteering. , Motives Cause Conflict. A conflict as to the mo'-es of wit- ' nesses who have appeared during the ' ! hearing was precipitated earlier in tho day. when Senator Kenyon, Republican, 1 of Iowa, author of the principal bill .j at issue, introduced two letters for the j record. One was from .T. G. Miller, ! of Denver, and nsrorted that Colorado packers, who classed themselves as in-! in-! dependents in opposing the legislation j last week, really were connected with ! tho larger companies. Harvey Nuck-' Nuck-' oils, owner of a plant at Pueblo, Colo., J was named as one of those having such connections. Henry Veeder, counsel for Swift & Co., interrupted tho proceedings a little later, denlod the assertion for all of the packers, and introduced Nuckolls, who also denied it flntlv. The second letter, let-ter, from J. C. Morrow, of Alliance, ' Nebraska, said that, eatt.lerron from that :; state who have supported the conten-!j conten-!j tions of the big packers were people1 |