ПСАКINUT Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Arthur, Dr. Henry B., economist, Swift & Co., Chicago, Ill 184 Brannan, Charles F., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, accom- Brownlee, James F., Fairfield, Conn., former Deputy Administrator, Buck, Mrs. J. L. Blair, president, General Federation of Women's 211 Farrington, C. L., chairman, ceilings and allocations committee; na- 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- Hawes, R. J., Idaho Cattlemen's Association__ 129 Hyatt, Sam C., president, Wyoming Stock Growers Association... 110 229 Ketner, F. G., secretary-treasurer and general manager, Producers Kline, Allan B., president, American Farm Bureau Federation___ Liljenquist, L. Blaine, Western States Meat Packers Association, San Rowe, Dr. Harold, Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C., former Smith, Russell, legislative secretary, National Farmers Union___ Walter, Ralph A., president, Chicago Live Stock Exchange, Union Youngclass, W. H., president, Iowa Swine Producers Association and Exhibits, statements, letters, etc., submitted for the record by― Albers, Herbert, president, Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association, 88 154 Exhibits-Continued Page Allen, Lester, president, Michigan Cattle Feeders Association, East 154 American Federation of Labor Meat Unions, statement. 182 193 156 Bevis, R. M., president, South Memphis Livestock Exchange, letter to 140 Boedeker, W. G., secretary, Cass County, Nebr., Livestock Feeders Buffington, Elmer N., director, Illinois Livestock Feeders Association, California Cattlemen's Association, San Francisco, Calif., statement__ Crouch, J. W., chairman, Convention of Three Hundred, Cameron, Mo., Cunningham, D. H., secretary, Sioux City Livestock Exchange: 140 Letter to Senator Wilson_. 141 Dressler, George R., National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, Chi- 209 Dutton, Paul V., president, St. Joseph Livestock Exchange, letter to Mr. 142 Eggert, R. J., American Meat Institute, Chicago, Ill., statement-. 170 139 S. 2024 1 Glenny, Clint, president, Winnebago County Cattle Feeders Associa- 156 Goeken, Carl H., Atlantic, Iowa, telegram to Mr. Pickell. 155 156 183 Jones, Strother G., president, Illinois Cattle Feeders Association, 155 Kaul, J. C. Layton, president, Carroll County Livestock Feeders Associ- 155 Klingaman, I. J., purchasing department, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, 166 Liljenquist, L. Blaine, Western States Meat Packers Association, 199 Miller, Will J., secretary, Kansas Livestock Association, Topeka, Kans., Sanders, J. T., legislative counsel, National Grange, statement-. 248 140 Straub, Walter F., Director, Office of Emergency Food Frogram, article 177 Traeger, Elizabeth, chairman, adult council, Henry Street Settlement, 271 Young, Parr, Murray, Nebr., telegram to Mr. Pickell__ 154 MEAT CONTROL THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948 UNITED STATES SENATE, 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: Sparkman. Senators Flanders, Buck, Capehart, Robertson, and 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 1 |
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