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Show imnFR rniiRO! 9 UlauLs! UUiilllUL I OF "BIGJIKL" I iwftonl nriitctrw P.nmnlP.tP.- I ly Dominated 8y IVieat I Packers. i . I WASHINGTON, May 21. The "big I live" meat packers dominate the live-' live-' stock, industry so completely that en- -actment of rederal regulation legislation legisla-tion Is necessary. Senator Kenarlck, Democrat, Wyoming, author of bills for 1 that purpose, asserted today, addressing address-ing tho senate. "One of the big stock markets have passed into their power," he said, "until "un-til today they control not only the fourteen principal markets, but fourteen four-teen others as well, so that their domination dom-ination of the industry is all but complete. com-plete. During the year 1916 more than 6 per cent of all the stock handled in . interstate commerce passed through their hands." The packers obtained their position, he said, "by suspending economic law and defying statute law." Tho per capita meat consumption of the country and the number of its livestock live-stock had been dropping off, tho senator sen-ator said. Hogs only had increased in , number due to the fact that independent independ-ent packers still had a large measure ot control, he added. "As conditions stand today," he continued, con-tinued, "the thousands of producers and mllllouB of consumers who are so interested in what goes on in livestock live-stock markets are wholly without protection." pro-tection." t Stockman Issues Statement. OMAHA, Neb., May 21. Frank M. Currle, Omaha stocknian, issued a statement today saying that "lor the past 30 days no stockman could borrow bor-row money at any bank in the city of Omaha at any rate on any kind of security." se-curity." He said it -Is apparent that tho federal reserve banks have classed class-ed stock raising as non-essential. |