Show ALLEGE CONSPIRACY TO DEPRESS PRICES KANSAS CITY GRAIN DEALERS DEALER SAID TO BE IN SCHEME AGAINST THE FARMERS Secretary Redfield to Send Two Inspectors Inspectors In In- to Kansas In Accordance I With Resolution Presented by Kansas Representative Washington Investigation of an alleged conspiracy among mong dealers and exporters of wheat at Kansas City Mo to depress prices to farmers farm ers s was provided In ill a resolution b by Representative Doolittle of Kansas i favorably reported Wednesday by the interstate commerce commission Secretary Redfield of ot the department depart depart- ment merit of commerce assured Mr r. r Doolittle Doolittle Doo Doo- little he lie would at once send two inspectors inspectors in in- to Kansas to investigate and report Mr r. r Doolittle told the house that for a wheat crop of bushels bushels bush bush- els producers were getting 63 cents at loading elevators in Kansas while larger quantities were being sold foi fot export at Kansas City Mo as high as 85 So cents Questioned regarding the resolution by l y Representative Doolittle of Kansas Kan Nan sas which provides for or an investigation tion of an alleged conspiracy among amons dealers and exporters of wheat to depress the price to farmers A. A L. L Ernst president of ot the Kansas CIt City board of trade and other local grain dealers denied the charges contained in the resolution and asserted that the competition on the local market this season was the keenest ever ex cx- |