Show WALLACE ALlACE W URGES JONES MEASURE Passage of Proposed Bill Would MaJ Make e Cattle Basic Commodity WASHINGTON V N Jan 19 CUP UP- UP Secretary of ot Agriculture Wallace Friday urged the house agriculture committee to take lake favorable action on an on the Jon Jones s bill which would make cattle a basic commodity Wallace said he had supported the original bill which made cattle a basic asic commodity before the se senate ate last Jest spring At that time however the he cattlemen who were represented by y the late Senator Kendrick D D. D W Wyo o did not wish their product to come under the provisions of oC the act Indications now are that the majority of the cattlemen are In i favor vor of including in in- eluding these in the list of or ural tural products under processing tax Wallace e said there had b been n many statements made that the processing tax ax did not l benefit the hog producer He pointed out however r. r th that t the average price for hogs on the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago market during the first half of ot January this ye year r was a ahun hundred hun hundred dred while a Q year ago the average price was W Wallace said it would be difficult to o formulates plan acceptable to all groups in t the e industry if it If the Jones ball becomes a law Probably he said it t would b be necessary to make it o a gIve rive and take affair It would be impossible Wallace said to put over overa a R program unless it t had the wholehearted wholehearted whole whole- hearted support o of the industry |