GRAIN STORAGE AND PUBLIC WAREHOUSING ACTS 



(Continued from page 5.) 

 Johnson moved that the House non- 

 concur in the Committee report. At 

 that stage friends of the bill had con- 

 trol of the situation and a substantial 

 majority in the House. Therefore by 

 agn^eement the report of the commit- 

 tee was not concurred in and Senate 

 Bill 148 was placed on the calendar, 

 without recommendation. 



Continued Delay 



Repeated attempts were made dur- 

 ing the remaining days of the session 

 to secure consideration of the Bill, but 

 continued delay was encountered. As 

 a final resort, on the last night of the 

 session, Mr. Johnson moved that the 

 bill be taken up out of order, under 

 House Rule No. 12. He was supported 

 by a number of down state members. 

 A roll call was had upon that motion 

 which was lost by a vote of 64 to 57 

 lacking 13 votes of receiving the re- 

 quired constitutional majority of the 

 House. Following is the House roll 

 call on Mr. Johnson's motion, 



AYES — Acker, Allen, Arnold, Babb, 

 Baird, Baker, Bandy, Bauer, Baxter, 

 Branson, Bruer, Bush, Choisser, Cork, 

 Corzine, Cutler, Davis, Eibenbart, 

 Ewin^f, Fahy, Foster, Franz, C. D., Gal- 

 las, Harrell, Hawkins, Hennebry, Hoar, 

 Hunter, Hutson, Johnson, G. J., Kasser- 

 man. Little, Lohmann, Luckey, Martens, 

 McAdams, McCaskrin, Mester, Miller, 

 Minsky, Moore, O'Hair, O'Neil, Pef- 

 fers, Phillips, Porter, Reeves, Rennick, 

 Rew, Rice, Robbins, Robinson, Rush, 

 Searle, Snell, Soderstrom, Sparks, 

 Tice, Turner, C. M., Vaughn, Waller, 

 Warren, Whiteley, and Wylie. 



NAYS — Beckman, Bippus, Castle, 

 Church, Clark, Coia, Curran, Devine, 

 Dnrso, EIrod, Fekete, Finneran, Franz 

 Matt.; Garriott, Gill, Gormley, Green, 

 Griffin, C. A., Holmgren, Holten, Igoe, 

 Jacobson, Johnson, E. A. W., Juul, Ker- 

 sey, Krump, Lee, Lyon, Marinier, Mc- 

 Carthy, McSweeney, Mugler, Murray, 

 Noonan, O'Brien, O'Grady, Overland, 

 Pacelli, Perina, Powers, Propper, Rate- 

 gan, Ryan Frank.; Schnackenberg, 

 Shanahan, Sinnett, Stanfield, Steven, 

 Stewart, Sullivan, Swanson, Trandell, 

 Weber, Weeks, Weiss, Wilson, and 

 Wright. 



RECORDED AS NOT VOTING— 

 Boyle, Bray, Breen, Browne, Chyno- 

 weth, Dougles, Eckley, Goode, Griffin 

 John; Hanley, Hoff, Hrdlicka, Jackson, 

 Jenco, Lipka, Martin, McClugage, Pet- 

 ri, Placek, Roe, Teel, Turner E. W.; 

 Turner S. B., Van Norman, Wood and 

 Sckoles. 



The failure of a majority of the 

 House to support the motion by which 

 it was attempted to take the Bill up 

 for consideration on final passage, as 

 it came in the closing hours of the 

 session, must be regarded and inter- 



preted as meaning that a majority of 

 the House were disposed to disregard 

 the tremendous public interests in 

 grain trading, as it is conducted on the 

 grain exchages; for no other similar 

 measure was offered by any member 

 of the General Assembly, and the State 

 exercises no supervision over grain ex- 

 changes, conduct of traders, or trad- 

 ing thereon. To those members of the 

 House who failed to act, and did so in 

 the face of a disclosure of conditions 

 demanding attention, to protect the 

 public interest in grain trading, at- 

 taches full responsibility for the failure. 



GRAIN STORAGE ACT— 

 S. B. 433 



IDENTICAL bills, prepared and 

 sponsored by the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, were introduced in 

 the Senate by Senator Andrew Cuth- 

 bertson, and in the House by Repre- 

 sentative Homer Tice. Both Houses 

 of the Legislature passed the bill by 

 substantial majorities and it later re- 

 ceived the Governor's signature. 



This Act follows the Iowa law, which 

 is desirable because of our common 

 marketing problems. We believe the Act 

 will be found useful and possibly essen- 

 tial in a cooperative grain marketing 

 program, particularly in the orderly 

 marketing of corn. Its provisions are 

 broad enough to offer opportunity in fi- 

 nancing voluntary, organized withhold- 

 ing from the market of quantities of 

 grain in excess of immediate market re- 

 quirements. It should assist the admin- 

 istration of federal surplus control legis- 

 lation, to the extent of its use. 



For the immediate present, the Act 

 offers possibilities to growers, who 

 elect to make use of it, in groups, 

 or individually. 



PUBLIC WAREHOUSE ACT 

 H. B. 553 



THIS bill was introduced in the 

 House as a special committee bill, 

 without further reference to a stand- 

 ing committee. The bill was sponsored 

 by the so-called "CURRAN INVESTI- 

 GATING COMMITTEE." The bill may 

 be regarded as the proposal of the 

 "grain trade" to provide certain rem- 

 edies to correct undesirable practices 

 in the warehousing of "contract grain" 

 eligible for delivery on "futures con- 

 tracts." The bill, as introduced in the 

 House, included a section not germane 

 to warehousing, and designed to render 

 lawful and immune from prosecution 

 under the "anti-gambling laws," any 

 and all transactions including "puts 

 and calls" conducted on the Board of 

 Trade of the City of Chicago. 



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The Association expressed its disap- 

 proval of and opposition to this sec- 

 tion, in a coihmunication addressed to 

 the chairman of the Special Investigat- 

 ing Committee, previous to the intro- 

 duction of the bill. It also submitted 

 to the Committee, through the Com- 

 mittee's attorney, draft of a bill pre- 

 pared by the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, amending the warehouse Act 

 in accordance with the Association's 

 views on the subject. . W'/ 



The committee's bill passed the 

 House unamended, in its orig^inal form, 

 and was referred to the Senate. The 

 Senate in turn referred the bill to its 

 Committee on Agriculture. Represen- 

 tatives of the Association appeared be- 

 fore the Senate Committee in opposi- 

 tion to the objectionable "legalizing" 

 section referred to and secured an 

 amendment striking it from the bill. 

 The Senate then passed the bill so 

 amended. The bill was re-referred to 

 the House as amended. The House 

 refused to concur and the Senate sub- 

 sequently refused to recede from its 

 position. A joint conference commit- 

 tee finally reported the bill, as amended 

 with the "legalizing" section stricken, 

 to the House and Senate and the re- 

 port was adopted. Much credit is due 

 to those Senator members of the con- 

 ference committee who vigorously in- 

 sisted on the Senate's position. 



The responsibility for setting their 

 house in order under the provision of 

 this Act now rests with the "grain 

 trade." The Illinois Commerce Com- 

 mission is charged with responsibility 

 for administering the Act. ; . 



IN ADDITION to the bills hereto- 

 fore mentioned, the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association was interested in 

 other measures; several to the extent 

 of aiding in their passage, and others, 

 which were just as important, that we 

 aid in defeating or amending them. 



The relations existing between our 

 Association and the State Department 

 of Agriculture were most cordial. Your 

 Legislative committee was in confer- 

 ence many times with Director Stanard 

 and other members of the Department 

 in framing or amending legislation af- 

 fecting that Department and our mem- 

 bership. 



The bills to which we now refer can 

 quite properly be listed in four classes. 



First, those bills which were in the 

 main drafted by members of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association staff. 

 Among this class of bills, was Senate 

 Bill 336 introduced by Senator Lantz. 

 This bill passed in the Senate and was 

 substituted in the House by Represen- 



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