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Show I Cattlemen Fight pa 1 Processing Tax ij ; ' - - Bitter opposition is being waged p by Utah cattle growers, and stockist stock-ist men throughout the western country, i against the proposed processing tax $$ on cattle, and cattlemen are bombard-ing bombard-ing congress, asking that no action f"; ..be taken at this time, and that a tax $ of any kind at this time is jriost un-$ un-$ ' ' reasonable, because of the very heavy if' tax burden stockmen are already car-i""1 car-i""1 rvinEr. ',' J. A. Scorup, one of Utah's larg-' larg-' est cattle growers, and a member of the executive board of the American -T"1 National Livestock association, has received a copy of a message sent to Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture ag-riculture at Washington. The message V was sent to Wallace by Chas. E. jCollins, president of the American National Livestock association, and follows: "There is a very unsettled feeling .among cattle growers and catlle feed-s feed-s due to uncertainty over the cattle Program and processing taxes. We jt have, wired Chester Davis urging that, a meeting be called in Chicago before the end of this month to work out a detaDed program. We think it highly (V1 important that an official statement )0CB I should be immediately rcl ased as to re i hat s'.cps will be taken, particularly , ... 'ith reference to the processing tax. iU We are counting on te.l'm' ny given atof you before committee that there probably would be no processing tax Un'il cattle were better able to stand t- We believe that a program should Worked out cn such br.sis that when "jytV Prices have recovered a small tax sPread over a period of years would rePay any necessary advances . from two hundred million dollar fund, je are certain that nothing you could ) a in this emergency would so' far Restore confidence in the cattle indus-T indus-T as a plain statement along the lEBjft' I : "es suggested above. Extended ob-Nations ob-Nations r.nd many contacts with Corn belt feeders lead me to believe !,l0ne"Ume Plan as suggested will ,ifi0H n With instant favor. If the hog Ts&ine tax was only fifty cents j., e Jay' based on long-term plan, thus "Ufl' 'iCftft1' Sh'nf? price to Prothu:L'r around - W, Chicago, the morale of the en- 22 , lndustry would be tremendously . ed.-'-.The Salina Sun. .. |