Show I I I I I CATTLE MEN SUFFER LOSS Plead for Reduced Freight Rates Bank Failures I Result I I I KANSAS CITY Mo 10 Jan 31 Kansas and Iowa Ioa 10 a c were as ss behl brine being In dire I I at a hearing before an Interstate commerce commission examiner on an application of stockmen west est n eat of the Iho MissIssippi riter for a 50 per cent reduction In Ih livestock estock freight rate In the short grass counties of about 60 50 per cent of the AI Block stockmen men ha have base 0 quit businesS A Stephenson cattleman of ot Greens Greens- Greensburg burc burg Kansas Kl Kan nn MAW Y RIL R IL TRIPS grazed In that region Mr Stephenson said are arc re brought In from the Texas Texa panhandle or from tho ho far tr western ranges range Thy They graze about nina months In Ian Xan sos a and are aro shipped to Kann City where 10 Iowa a and Nebraska stockmen buy them for fattening he added Thet That makes about five rail rail- railroad railroad rail railroad road trips tor for the e 08 b before toro toroth th they reach the th Ih slaughter ardt ards then doesn tit t it If asked S II H CO Conan an chief thief counsel for tor the tho stockmen Yes Yc Yea ans answered ered Stephenson and It a s high freight rates rat all the tho thoa thenay I i a nay A Slices S kes of or Ida Grove Gro lo a president ton foi 19 1 years or of or the he heI I I Corn B It Moat Meat Producers I ao asso- asso asso association elation testified there was nas no such uch a thing AS liS prosperity among Cattlemen In 10 lona a I LO LOSE hOSE D 20 HEAD nr a Cattle feeders right tit now he I said aUd arc are aro losing from 20 to 10 30 a 0 head on cattle they have tat fat tatI fattened fat l and anti are shipping to 10 market I It If It were nero not for tor the tho equipment I and nd the capital which that state I of corn raisers I and cattle f feeders de has sc on hand there would d df be no I feeding I Mr declared Iowa nas as to lower r live stock I rates ratos tor for relief There Thre hao have been snore more mor bank In low Ioa In to the last t tco 0 3 ears oars from cattle paper than any time Ume In the th states state's I he ho said lie added the Same thing applied to South P PI J- J Jakota DL- DL kota a-kota I kOla kota and Nebraska All the witnesses coll called d by the I stock toch mon men declared a n reduction of freight rates would be bo the th bet beat help that the th cattle catti Industry could get right richt now The Th railroad do- do de defendants through their contend that present rates rate are adjusted to suit the th general ceo tco- eco economic Ic level Icel el and If tt they are cut eer ice sel-ice Ice would ha have hao 0 to be cur cur- Curtailed cur curtailed tailed K F Eu Burgess rge Chicago chief counsel for the tho stressed I this point In cross examining TC T 1 C Cessna a 0 big stock feeder reder or of Grinnell lows Iowa Mr Cessna Is n a State senator I you rather ha have hae e good service and the present I lates ates than 1 rate rates and poor Mr Burgess uk asked cd I think we ne are entitled to both reduced rates rate and continued good service Senator Cessna s ered S H RY BY LOSS LOS I Senator Cessna Cesna told of ot one ono teed teed- feed feeder er tr In hl his neigh neighborhood who ho lost loot lo I a head on a carload cC of eat cat cat I andI tb llo which he lIe bought In 1310 1919 and fed while the big slump In la cat cat- cattie cat tl I catI tie prices occurred That I Is just a sIngle sincle horrible example Isn tit t If It Mr Burgess Burges I asked The Tho Iowa stock man replied that thero nero re plenty like It on ou a modified scale I Mr Ir Cessna told of shipping hogs In order to take tak ad antage of the 20 per cent long long haul reductIon In the rail rate rato system from Grin Grinnell I nell Iowa through Chicago and direct to Buffalo N Y T Ho He sold eald for tho the short haul hauls which In- In In Includes eludes the run from to Chicago only a ten per cent re- re reduction reduction Is made madeTh The Th hearing is II I expected to lost several everal days daIs da s About 50 fO stock stockmen stockmen men and railroad attorneys attorney were ere present Friday |