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I think at the last annual meeting some such resolution was 

 adopted, however. 



Mr. Eisele: All of the live stock organizations have adopted 

 similar resolutions, haven 't they ? 



The President: We are requesting our shippers to co-operate. 

 I think it might be well to renew that after the resolutions are of- 

 fered. If there is no resolution along that line, one can be offered 

 on the floor of the house and added to the resolutions that will be 

 offered by the committee. Of course we have no power to enforce 

 that rule as an organization. 



A Member: Don't you think, Mr. Sykes, that our experience 

 in the Corn Belt, the rest of the organizations would all feel dis- 

 posed to do the same if the Corn Belt would pass such a resolution ? 



The President : Yes, but the other organizations are all in favor 

 of it. There is not a live stock organization in the country that 

 has not resolved in favor of it. They are in favor of it and urging 

 it. 



The Member: I think that would be proper to pass such a 

 resolution. 



The President : It was unanimously adopted last winter at the 

 American National meeting out at Colorado Springs. It was 

 adopted, without a dissenting vote, in a packed house there. 



Mr. Thompson : Along the line of this discussion, and I have 

 not been able to hear all of it, isn't it a fact that the Live Stock 

 Exchange feels timid about endorsing this five cent proposition be- 

 cause many of the shippers have been protesting to their commis- 

 sion men as to the present charges they have been making in 

 regard to the selling of stock? I know that I have talked to one 

 or two of them and I find that they are getting no relief from this 

 excessive charge that we all believe they are getting. Isn't it a 

 fact, also, that your new corporation has, in order to avoid trouble, 

 gone into conjunction and is charging this $18 a car for selling 

 these cattle with the proposition that if there is anything more 

 than paying the cost, which I think we all understand, that there 

 will be a refund to the shippers ? And this Chicago Exchange, as 

 we call the large men who sell the most of the stock, they are some- 

 what timid as I think in endorsing this five cent movement on the 

 ground that they know that the average shipper is now somewhat 

 dissatisfied with the $18 or more charged for each car. So if you 

 are to pass a resolution endorsing this five cent action I believe, 

 while there is but a small per cent of the men represented here that 

 are shipping stock, I believe that in that resolution we should ask 



