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Show CONTROL BY IL 8. I President of Livestock I Exchange Roasts the Trade Commission. I DENIES ALLEGATIONS I Livestock Assured of a Daily Cash Market. WASHINGTON. Aug 26 "Unless we can be assured of more efficient and economical governmental control 'than was the case with the railroads, telegraph and telephone companies, .neither the producer nor consumer i can hope to benefit from such legislation." legis-lation." Everett (' Brown, president of the National Livestock Exchange, which is composed of stockyard brokers, brok-ers, told the senate agriculture committee com-mittee today. The witness appeared in opposition to the Kenyon and Ken-drick Ken-drick bills proposing license regulation .of the packing industry and transfer of refrigerator cars and stockyards. Mr. Brown took exception to testimony testi-mony given before the committee by Federal Trade Commissioner Colver and remarked "that in our great Industry In-dustry it has seemed more proper to speak of the 'tirade' commission than the trade commission." "The witness," he said, in referring to Mr Colver, "stated the so-called Independent In-dependent packers existed merely at I the suffrage of the large packers," he said "If this be true how does he account ac-count for the fact that at many of our 'great markets the independents repeatedly repeat-edly and aggressively set the pace in buying livestock. Would the so-called trust' voluntarily permit the continuation continua-tion of such expensive 'suffrance?' "The witness staled that the brokers were in the yards at the suffrance of the packers, though really the agent of the shippers. I resent this allegation, allega-tion, and it only shows the unfamil-iarity unfamil-iarity of he witness with actual conditions condi-tions "Livestock Is today the one farrfl product assured of a daily cash market. mar-ket. Anything which would disturb this condition would be ruinous to the producer." Refrigerator car development. Mr. Brown classed as "a bright spot in the history of the packing industry" and j urged caution in legislating upon their use. "The federal control act gave the , railroad administration the right to i take over these cars, but they care-fully care-fully refrained from doing so," he .said I "The interstate commerce commission (after careful study confessed that only I inefficiency could result from turning the cars over to the railroads." Ownership of the stockyards by the packers. Mr. Brown said, was not a .cause for objection by shippers so long as competition was maintained and yard charges were reasonable ' If. in the face of many protests, congress In Its wisdom elects to disturb dis-turb this industry," he said, in concluding, con-cluding, "I respectfully urge that new-laws new-laws defining what shall constitute crimes and misdemeanors, and providing provid-ing punishment therefore would be 'more effective than the licensing r.ys-I r.ys-I tern. If the licensing system must, as I a last resort, be adopted, the commission commis-sion men. acting solely as the direct agent of the producers, should be exempted. ex-empted. If regulation must come, let it be by a commission hot the present federal trade commission. Do not interfere in-terfere with refrigerator cars unless 'and until another bettor method of dis-' dis-' tribution la devised " , I nn . |