Show lOW MA A CATTLEMEN FIGHT PACKER BILL Petition Opposes Throwing Monkey Wrench in Machinery WASHINGTON March 9 Present Present- PresentIng Ing a petition from twenty six Iowa cattle producers and feeders opposing any legislation against the packers J. J S S. S Blackwell of Muscatine told the house agricultural committee today that that- those he represented were against you gentlemen tl tb tI owing a a. monkey wrench Into the i. machinery machinery ma ma- chinery in any way Mr Blackwell said he had told Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Kenyon of at Iowa author of the abandoned compulsory packer licensIng licensing licensing licens licens- ing bill that If he would go home and get his ear to the ground he would get off otC the legislation Since then he added Senators Kenyon a and d Kendrick it appears have been passing the buck They have something they're trying to get offWell off oft Well admit the big packers have been pretty good the last three years since this agitation began interjected interject Interject- ed Representative Anderson Rep Minnesota author of the control bill before the committee Iti strikes me that they've been pretty good all along considering our prosperous condition Blackwell replied re replied re plied pIled citing many small packing plants in Iowa which he said had prosper prospered d In Iii competition with the Big Five I. I Representatives of the Corn Belt Producers' Producers association of Iowa who appeared in behalf of the Anderson bill were said by Mr Blackwell to be unfair in their statements The as associations association's associations association's associations association's as- as resolutions ns in favor tavor of at the bill Blackwell said were adopted with only ten votes |