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mums within the state to 17,000 pounds. After the roads were turned 

 back to the different companies, Iowa restored its old order fixing a 16,000- 

 pound minimum within the state, and the railroads appealed from that 

 order. That is w^hat brought on the first hearing that I refer to, in January, 

 and which resulted in the commission again re-establishing and confirm- 

 ing the old decision of the 16,000-pound minimum, and then the carriers 

 came back after that decision was rendered and appealed from the deci- 

 sion to the Interstate Commerce Commission, on the grounds of discrim- 

 ination against interstate business. Of course, you know under the 1920 

 transportation act, it seems as though the state commissions have no 

 standing whatever, that they are merely figureheads. Now, of course, 

 this is one of the cases that is going to try that question out, as to whether 

 or not the Interstate Commerce Commission is going to go over the heads 

 of our state commissions and set aside their order and make an order 

 restoring or establishing the 17,000-pound minimum on intrastate business. 



Packer and Stock Yards Legislation 



I feel that your organization is to be congratulated on the splendid work 

 it has done in assisting in securing the final enactment during the extra 

 session of congress of the packers and stock yards bill, which places the 

 meat packers, the stock yards, the commission men and traders under the 

 supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



This, as you well know, has been a long and bitter fight, but this organi- 

 zation has earnestly and steadfastly contended for the enactment of such 

 legislation for years past, and we hope now that all the various interests 

 concerned in the production, selling or slaughtering of meat animals will 

 in the future co-operate and work more harmoniously together for the best 

 interests of the industry as a whole. 



In this connection, I feel that I would be derelict of my duty if I failed 

 to make special mention of Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, and Kendrick, of 

 Wyoming. These men certainly deserve the deepest appreciation and 

 gratitude from the stock men of the country for the splendid, courageous 

 fight which they waged for years to secure this legislation-, and I would 

 suggest that a suitable resolution making mention of this fact be prepared 

 by the committee on resolutions. 



Marketing Committee 



As you are aware, your president was appointed a member of the Farm- 

 ers' Live Stock Marketing Committee of Fifteen; this committee being 

 created to make a study of general live stock marketing conditions and to 

 work out a general plan for the more orderly marketing of live stock. 

 This, as you doubtless realize, was a long and tedious job, as the com- 

 mittee held some eight or nine different sessions and spent weeks and 

 months making the most diligent and careful study of the entire situation. 



Your representative on the committee was made chairman of the sub- 

 committee on orderly marketing. This committee organized at once and 

 prepared to make a complete survey and digest of the movement of live 

 stock to all of the larger terminal markets. This we found to be a tre- 

 mendous task, but it was carried through to by far the greatest degree of 

 anything of the kind that had ever been undertaken in regard to the move- 



