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Show GOODING PUIS . TO AIMERS IDAHO SENATOR ADVISES PRES. IDENT THAT REDUCTION IN FREIGHT NECESARY Insists That Some Action Must Be Taken in Coming Session of Congress For Farmers Washington, Reduction of freight rates on farm products was recommended recom-mended to President Coolidge Friday by Senator Gooding (Rep.), Idaho, as the most effective means of extending agricultural relief. The Idaho senator advised the president that there was a universal demand among the farmers of the West for lower freight rates on their products, and charged that . the railroads rail-roads were spending millions of dollars dol-lars in -a campaign to prevent reduction reduc-tion by "throwing out a smoke screen" of argument that a reduction could only be made to the cost of service. "Some action must be taken by the coming congress to relieve the farmer farm-er or both of the old parties will find themselves fighting for their existence in 1924 in all of the territory west of the Mississippi river," Senator Gooding Good-ing said. "The farmers of the West will no longer rest easy under the present freight charges." Senator Gooding said he plans to introduce in-troduce a bill providing for a decrease in freight rates, adding that in his judgment the larger roads are making too great a return as a result of the horizontal advances in freight tariffs ordered by the interstate commerce commission since the war. "I shall also reintroduce my bill for a stabilization of wheat prices," he said. "The plight of the wheat-grower is due largely to the administration of federal laws affecting him and the deflation de-flation policy of the federal reserve board. It Is the duty of the government govern-ment to take some action to relieve the situation for which it is directly responsible." While he is for a reduction of taxes. Senator Gooding said he would not support that program at the expense ex-pense of the soldiers bonus. He added ad-ded that it was possible to enact the bonus and at the same time decrease the national tax bill. |