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Show 'GRAIN DEALER rOEfEWING Opposes Legislation Putting Extra Tax on Speculators WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. Congress at this time is apt to "run lopsided" In the Interest of producers without gU-Ine; gU-Ine; heed to the S0.000.000 people dependent de-pendent on them for food, A. E. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, a grain dealer of Cramfnrdsvllie, Ind., told the house agriculture committee com-mittee today In oppoaing legislation designed de-signed to put an extra t&x on speculative specu-lative grain trading. The witneas waa sharply question. -d by Representative Trmrher; Republican of Kansas, who wanted to know if tne farmer derived any benefit from the fact that the wheat crop was sold fourteen times on the Chicago hoard of trade before It waa harvested Mr. Reynolds said be could not answer that. Calling attention to what he regarded re-garded as dangerous provisions of regulation meaaures, the witness raid they mltrht open the way for somebody to step in and attempt to buy up the visible supply. |