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CONTENTS

Anderson, Dr. Dewey, executive director, Public Affairs Institute,

Washington, D. C-_-.

Arthur, Dr. Henry B., economist, Swift & Co., Chicago, Ill
Bamert, Loren, past president, California Cattlemen's Association,
San Francisco, Calif., first vice president, American National
Livestock Association_.

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Brannan, Charles F., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, accom-
panied by Charles S. Burmeister, Department of Agriculture____ 3, 252

Brownlee, James F., Fairfield, Conn., former Deputy Administrator,

Office of Price Administration___

Buck, Mrs. J. L. Blair, president, General Federation of Women's
Clubs, Washington, D. C__

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Dressler, George, executive secretary, National Association of Retail
Meat Dealers, Chicago, Ill___.

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Eggert, R. J., associate director, department of marketing, American
Meat Institute, Chicago, Ill__.

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Farrington, C. L., chairman, ceilings and allocations committee; na-

tional Livestock Exchange, Chicago, Ill.

Funk, Theodore, livestock producer, Bloomington, Ill___
Galbraith, Dr. J. K., Fortune magazine, Rockefeller Plaza, New York
City, formerly Deputy Administrator, Office of Price Administration__
Godfrey, George A., president, New Mexico Cattle Growers Associa-
tion, Deming, N. Mex..

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Hyatt, Sam C., president, Wyoming Stock Growers Association__.

Javits, Jacob K., Representative in Congress from the State of
New York___

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Pickell, Mark W., executive secretary, Corn Belt Livestock Feeders
Association, Chicago, Ill___

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Rowe, Dr. Harold, Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C., former
Director of Food Rationing, Office of Price Administration__.

Shishkin, Boris, economist, American Federation of Labor.

Smith, Arthur A., president, American National Livestock Association,
Sterling, Colo__

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Smith, Russell, legislative secretary, National Farmers Union_.
Walter, Ralph A., president, Chicago Live Stock Exchange, Union
Stockyards, Chicago, Ill__.

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Wiley, Fred D., New Harmony, Ind__

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Youngclass, W. H., president, Iowa Swine Producers Association and
American Pork Producers, Webster City, Iowa..

Exhibits, statements, letters, etc., submitted for the record by-

Albers, Herbert, president, Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association,
Wisner, Nebr., telegram to Mr. Pickell__.

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Exhibits-Continued

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Allen, Lester, president, Michigan Cattle Feeders Association, East
Lansing, Mich., telegram to Mr. Pickell__

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American Federation of Labor Meat Unions, statement--
Arthur, Dr. Henry B., economist, Swift & Co., Chicago, Ill., chart_.
Bass, Earl, Armstrong, Ill., telegram to Mr. Pickell_

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Bevis, R. M., president, South Memphis Livestock Exchange, letter to
Mr. Farrington__--

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Boedeker, W. G., secretary, Cass County, Nebr., Livestock Feeders
Association, Murray, Nebr., telegram to Mr. Pickell___
Brock, Lawrence, Wakefield, Nebr., telegram to Mr. Pickell.
Bronson, Irlo, president, Florida State Cattlemen's Association, tele-
gram to Senatory Flanders

Buffington, Elmer N., director, Illinois Livestock Feeders Association,
telegram to Mr. Pickell.

California Cattlemen's Association, San Francisco, Calif., statement__
Cooley, Oscar, Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Ind., letter to Senator Capehart--

Crouch, J. W., chairman, Convention of Three Hundred, Cameron, Mo.,
telegram to Mr. Pickell__.

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Cunningham, D. H., secretary, Sioux City Livestock Exchange:
Letter to Mr. Farrington_.

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Letter to Senator Wilson_.

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Dressler, George R., National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, Chi-
cago, Ill., statement..

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Dutton, Paul V., president, St. Joseph Livestock Exchange, letter to Mr.
Farrington.

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Eggert, R. J., American Meat Institute, Chicago, Ill., statement-.
Fischer, George H., president, Omaha Live Stock Exchange, Omaha,
Nebr., enclosing letter to Representative Karl Stefan____.
Flanders, Ralph E., Senator from Vermont :

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S. 2024_

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Glenny, Clint, president, Winnebago County Cattle Feeders Associa-
tion, Rockford, Ill., telegram to Mr. Pickell.-

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Goeken, Carl H., Atlantic, Iowa, telegram to Mr. Pickell
Granneman, Louis, Ionia, Mo., telegram to Mr. Pickell_.
Hormel, Jay C., letter to Senator Flanders.

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Jones, Strother G., president, Illinois Cattle Feeders Association,
Buffalo, Ill., telegram to Mr. Pickell_

155

Kaul, J. C. Layton, president, Carroll County Livestock Feeders Associ-
ation, Chadwick, Ill., telegram to Mr. Pickell

155

Klingaman, I. J., purchasing department, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis,
Ind., letter to Mr. Kahn____

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Liljenquist, L. Blaine, Western States Meat Packers Association,
statement

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Miller, Will J., secretary, Kansas Livestock Association, Topeka, Kans.,
statement and editorial from Topeka (Kans.) Daily Capitol__.
Monfort, Warren H., Greeley, Colo., telegram to Mr. Pickell__
Omaha Live Stock Exchange, letter to Representative Stefan..
Pickell, Mark W., executive secretary, Corn Belt Livestock Feeders
Association, Chicago, Ill.:

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Sanders, J. T., legislative counsel, National Grange, statement---
South Memphis Livestock Exchange, telegram---

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Straub, Walter F., Director, Office of Emergency Food Program, article
from Milwaukee Journal.

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Traeger, Elizabeth, chairman, adult council, Henry Street Settlement,
New York, N. Y., statement..

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Young, Parr, Murray, Nebr., telegram to Mr. Pickell.

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MEAT CONTROL

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948

UNITED STATES SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE
ON BANKING AND CURRENCY,
Washington, D. C.

The subcommittee met at 2:35 p. m., pursuant to call, in room 324 of the Senate Office Building, Senator Ralph E. Flanders (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Senators Flanders, Buck, Capehart, Robertson, and Sparkman.

Also present: Representative Jacob K. Javits.

Senator FLANDERS. The hearing will come to order, please.

We are considering the question of meat control and have before us S. 2024.

(S. 2024 follows:)

[S. 2024, 80th Cong., 2d sess.]

A BILL To provide for the allocation of meat

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Meat Allocation Act of 1948." SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, title III of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, is hereby revived and reenacted for the exercise, but only in accordance with the provisions of this Act, of the powers, authority, and discretion conferred on the President by such title III with respect to the allocation of fresh and processed meat and meat products, including the rationing thereof at the consumer level.

SEC. 3. (a) The President is authorized to do all things necessary to formulate a program under this Act, including, but not limited to, the preparation, printing and binding, and distribution of necessary papers, forms, records, and other documents and, subject to the provisions of section 4 hereof, the planning of an organization to administer such program.

(b) No such program shall be put into effect by the President unless and until

(1) such program shall have been submitted to the Congress together with a report, in the form prescribed in section 6 (a) of the joint resolution approved December 30, 1947 (Public Law 395, Eightieth Congress), of his investigation with respect to the necessity and practicability of putting such program into effect; and

(2) thirty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress shall have elapsed after such program shall have been submitted to it and the two Houses of Congress shall not have passed a concurrent resolution stating that the Congress does not favor such program.

(c) For the purposes of subsection (b) —

(1) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die; but

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