A BILL TO AMEND THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS MARCH 20, 22, 25, 26, AND 27, 1924 PART 2 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY CHARLES L. McNARY, Oregon. ELLISON D. SMITH, South Carolina.. J. THOMAS HEFLIN, Alabama. AMENDMENT TO PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D. The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock a. in room 326, Senate Office Building, Senator George W. Norris siding. Present: Senators Norris (chairman), Capper, McKinley, R dell. Kendrick, and Johnson. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. FURTHER STATEMENT OF MR. JOHN B. GAGE, ATTORNEY A LAW, KANSAS CITY, MO. Mr. GAGE. At the outset I desire to refer to repeated refere that have been made by the witnesses who have appeared in opp tion to this bill tending to produce the impression that this is marily a matter in which the commission men or the livestock changes operating the public markets are interested. Mr. Reichmann made reference to the fact that the firm of w I am a member represented the Kansas City Livestock Excha That is correct. In conjunction with other attorneys we did re sent the Kansas City Livestock Exchange in the hearing that been referred to in the testimony with reference to the operatio the Mistletoe Stockyards when it was pending before the Secre of Agriculture. The unsuccessful results, in so far as restrain the methods of operation of those yards that are complained of 1 have been stated heretofore before the committee. Approximately a year ago, or during the summer of 1923, Kansas City Livestock Exchange, discouraged at the unsuccessfu sults of its efforts, although there were then in the hands of the cers of that exchange some 26,000 written, signed protests of ducers who shipped to the public yards, protesting against the p tice, had, in effect, abandoned further effort in this direction. the latter part of the summer Mr. Sherman P. Houston, the presi of the Missouri Livestock Association, an organization separate distinct from the Missouri Farmers' Association, of which Mr. H is the representative and appeared here before the committee ye day. came to my office, and he said that this was, in his opin primarily a producers' fight; that the producers paid the expe in the long run of operating the public yards; that they were marily interested in anything that tended to depress the price livestock established on those vorde He said that wo had |