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Show I MOT AND KING RAP PACKER BILL Smoot Says Retail Profits on Meat Products Should Be Curbed WASHINGTON, Doc. Federal regulfctton of the meal packing Indus try ,ns proposed in ;i Mil by ihij agricultural agri-cultural ronimittoe. sas attacked in i he senate Tuesday by Senator Wads-worth Wads-worth of New York, find Senator sm.ioi of Utah, Hi pobl leans, The hill vn? defended hy Senai'M Kenyon, Re-publlban, Re-publlban, Iowa, sponsor of the original paeker regulative propn";' The bill would provide for volunt) legiatrfttlon and liopntlnc ol packers and lor the creation ! n livestock eomniission which .i;.l conduct hparlngs and enforce rules and regulations. regu-lations. A uniform accounting system would also he requested. UTAH SENATORS OPPOSE Senators Wadsworth and Smoot vir.' joined in their attacks hy S nn tors Kins. I'emocrat, Utah; Pomerene, democrat, Ohio; Watson. Republican, Indiana, and Sterling-, Republitan. South Dakota, all of whom oppi I certain features of the proposed bill. Senator Kenyon was assisted in bis I defense by Ch;urm.n t,ronna of ine agriculture commit tee. ;ind by Sen., tors Lenroot, Republican, Wisconsin) and Kendrick, Democrat, Wyoming. Senator Wsdswortb declared thai the bill would bring sboul general i1 censing in he Industry and it would ;nean paternalism. "We have had some experience with licensing business during the last three years," he added, "and 1 do not believe you could get many votet (he senate for Us re-establishment." BLAMES RET A i LE RS The provisions for supervising the industry, the New York senator would result in unnecesearj hamper mg of business. Senator Smoot attacked the gel il principle involved on the ground thai retajl profits in meat distribution were of greatest importance to the consumer. He added. :hat packet wholesale prices had chanced very little lit-tle in the last two years and said thai "if the senate really wants to do seme-ihing seme-ihing for the consumer, it is beginning at the wrong end of the line." |