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Show PACKING BUSINESS ENDANGERED BY BILL WASHINGTON, Jan. liC. That the moat packers of tho countrj would be driven out of business and there would be a general business demoralization If tho Heyburn cold-storage bill now pending In congress were adopted was the declaration of A 13. Hayes, tho "Washlnstpn represontatne of tho American Meat Packers' association, at its convention here today The bill, he declared would kill the object sought A resolution was adopted approving the merfl Inspection Inspec-tion law after flvo ears of tial. It called attention, however, to the fact that the packers must stand the loss of cattle condemned after being killed and urged that this less be met out of tho public funds Another resolution resolu-tion called attention to tho spread of bovine tuberculosis, and urged that congress adopt effective measures for eradicating IL John T. Russell, president of tho Western Butchers' association of America, insisted that neither tho packers nor retailers were responsible responsi-ble for the high cost of living, but that the main trouble lay In the shortage short-age of livestock Ile-Eaid his association was in favor of a repeal of the tax on colored oleomargarine oleo-margarine and in favor of a high fine and imprisonment for any persons convicted of selling It as butter The association also is opposed, he declared, to the slaughter of calves, because, if they were allowed to mature, ma-ture, It would increaso the supplv of beef. |