380 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The President: I believe it would be advisable at this time to appoint 

 the various committees. On the Committee on Resolutions I will ap- 

 point Mr. Wentworth as chairman and Mr. Stubbs and Mr. McMurray. 

 On the Auditing committee, Mr. Odell chairman and Mr. Gudknecht 

 and Mr. Flickinger. 



There is another thing to which I would like at this time to call 

 your attention, and that is the status of the so-called Less than Car Load 

 Rate Case and the Icing Case. As your counsel I take pleasure in say- 

 ing that while we have had no definite report we are very hopeful that 

 the Commission will rule favorable. We have had many hearings and 

 many witnesses and the amount of evidence accumulated is enormous. 

 The transcript takes up many, many pages and there is a huge mass of 

 evidence to be gone over. 



But a case of this kind takes money. Our opponents are represented 

 by many high-class lawyers and are spending money freely. ^We have 

 been very careful to keep our expenses at a minimum but even then they 

 run up in quite large sums. For example: It is necessary that we have 

 an expert rate clerk, who draws $2.5 a day. It is necessary to have one 

 for the schedules are so complex that it would take a vast amount of 

 time to go over them. 



There are some forty odd creameries which have responded and 

 paid from $10 to $25 for that fund but every creamery in the state is 

 vitally concerned. I am just calling this to your attention so that if 

 you will just remind your boards of directors that they are directly in- 

 terested in this fight. I think that if the matter is properly presented 

 to the creamery boards that nearly all of them will respond. If they 

 understood better how important it is to them that the Commission 

 hand down a favorable decision I do not believe that there would be 

 any difficulty and I am. just asking that you remind them of it and see 

 if they won't contribute $5 or $10 at least. If we could get every cream- 

 ery in Iowa to come across with this amount it would do nicely. 



Mr. Stephenson: I would like at this time to call the attention of 

 the buttermakers to the fact that it is necessary that we get busy and 

 raise some money. Judge Quarton has told you that it took money to 

 carry on this fight. It is also true that he is meeting these expenses 

 out of his own pocket while for his services he has not received a dol- 

 lar — not one dollar. A mighty good work he is doing and has still to 

 do and yet he has not received one cent. I have been to all the cream- 

 eries soliciting funds and there are some who have responded. The 

 judge's expenses will be taken care of by the state association but It 

 is necessary that more money be raised. Mr. Quarton states that he 

 is up against a high class of lawyers, but if the truth were told I don't 

 think that they are any better than he is. He is doing something for 

 us which would cost double the amount elsewhere and I think that the 

 buttermakers, for their own protection, should see that he is taken 

 care of. I merely suggest that they take the matter up before their 

 directors in the right light and I feel sure that they will have no diffi- 

 culty in receiving contributions. 



