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and they ought to have those different ways of getting out and 

 having a good time. 



The President : The resolutions committee is ready to report. 

 Just for your information, Mr. Thompson, I will say that this or- 

 ganization, in conjunction with some of the other live stock organ- 

 izations, is now engaged in a case with the packer and stock yards 

 administration to secure a reduction in these commission charges. 

 You were not here when I read my report yesterday. I referred to 

 that at some length. So far as securing anything in a voluntary 

 way, why, of course we gave up all hope of that and went to the 

 department to try to secure some reduction in these charges. 



Now the chairman of our resolutions committee is with us, 

 and we will listen to Mr. Dawson, the chairman, read the report 

 of the committee : 



Mr. W. P. Dawson : The work of this committee has had to be 

 somewhat hurriedly done. The committee really requires a lot of 

 time to draft the sort of resolutions that an organization like this 

 ought to put out, because we are known by the resolutions we 

 adopt, largely. If I might suggest that in the future the resolu- 

 tions committee be appointed a couple of weeks ahead of time. I 

 think it was three weeks that was given by the Iowa Farm Bureau 

 Federation after their first year's experience in hurriedly draft- 

 ing and passing resolutions. Since then their resolutions commit- 

 tee, or a group from them, have met and drafted tentative sets of 

 resolutions that could be acted upon later. 



Mr. Dawson then read the report of the committee on resolu- 

 tions, and after slight discussion and amendment of the report, the 

 following resolutions were adopted : 



RESOLUTIONS 



1. Since there is prospect of a great increase in live stock feeding, we 

 call on the National Live Stock and Meat Board, the packers, the daily 

 p-css, and the United States Department of Agriculture to increase the 

 consumption of meat products at home and abroad. 



2. We pledge our support to the efforts of the producers to handle 

 the shipment and the selling of live stock through co-operative agencies. 



3. We advocate the repeal of Section 15-A of the Esch-Cummins act, 

 and especially favor revising the act so as to restore to the state railway 

 commissions their former power. 



4. Whereas, it has been proposed to repeal the entire Cummins-Esch 

 act, which would involve killing legislation providing for the federal con- 

 trol of security issues and certain other valuable features for which we 

 have fought, it is our firm conviction that such action would be unwise. 

 Therefore, be it 



