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Show 11 PURCHASES American Bean Growers ' Treated Unfairly, Committee Com-mittee Is Told. WASHINGTON'. Oct. 13. Renewing 'urges of discrimination npiinst Amerl-f". Amerl-f". win growers in 1918. Aaron Sapiro of E ". counsel for tho Oalifoi- !' Rein Growers' association, told Ihe iil i-v and means committee today ftat Uw' Kutner. head of the company lLh which tlie Kovernmcnt purchased or niil beans, had received "special !fv:'rs' while K. P. Kimball was head 1 ,h c-lin corporation, in chari; of the r"irtf "e s;l"' Kulnel" lKlJ loa"od v'iml.Mi S40.000, adding: 'We are not saying that it had any traordinary s gnif icanee.'' bout one-hall of the l,2o0,000 hags of , beans bought hy the government K' 'purchased through Kutners com-;,nv com-;,nv the Western Import company. Sa-W'.-iid, adding that Kutner received tiers' so far ahead he could buy on an nhantaireous market. K " "Lord, representing the Michigan vAn growers, said Kimball had heen ro-t.'metf ro-t.'metf bv Herbert Ilouver. then food ad-i'in'strater. ad-i'in'strater. when the matter was called , ItV'iis attention, and that a record of the Irv'ostigation of bean purchases had been l,'.-..c(i"ovor to the justiee department, t Mr Saoiro urged a tariff of 4 cents a L'lrd ori Oriental beans, asserting this inoiint was necessary to place the me-ican product on the same market Jevef in this country. r "Without the tariii. the American bean jl-dustrv will disappear," said lie. |