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Show PAGKEBS 0PPO5JK lEMmOLK I Business Should Not be Hamp-I Hamp-I ered by Multitude of Laws and Regulations I !' WASHINGTON, March 4. Opposition Opposi-tion to pending legislation for control of the packing industry' was expressed before the house agricultural commit lee today by Frank T. Fuller, president presi-dent of the Iowa Packing company of Des Moines, who described himself as an independent packer. He said no government commission or official should be given general and broad powers to regulate the packing Dusmess as the result would be to harass the packers, large and small by a multitude of orders and regulations. Small packers should be aided by laws abolishing special privileges now enjoyed by the packers as to railrood rates and other facilities. Under railroad rail-road administration ordera, he declared, declar-ed, the Chicago packers have a rate advantage over his concern equal to $104,000 last year or four per cent of his company's capital stock. Denying charges of other witnesses that the packers practices had reduced stock raising, Mr. Fuller said the big packers had developed livestock and , poultry growing and other agricultural , interests including stockyards and ' many other enterprises. |