Americus Times Recorder

PACKING COMPANIES ATTACKED

Debate on the Kenyon bill for the regulating and licensing of the packing industry in America has brought out some serious charges against the great packing companies on the floor of the senate. Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, republican, said that the packers were maintaining vast lobbies for the defeat of the legislation. On the other hand Senator Smoot, of Utah, also a republican, said that the National Wholesale Grocers' association was just as active in support of the measure, and Senator Sherman, republican, of Illinois said that supporters of the Kenyon bill were engaged in propaganda in order to pass the bill.

In the course of his speech Senator Kenyon said that the packers constituted the most powerful industrial influence in the United States and were a "menace." He also said he spoke before the senate on the matter "because it is impossible to get anything in the newspapers concerning the packers." He added that the people are as vitally interested in reducing the high cost of living as they are in the proper disposition of the League of Nations problem.

"The people," the senator said, "are looking to congress to do something. The only bills before congress that try to do something are those of myself and Senator Kendrick of Wyoming. It is apparent they have

many rocks in their path, with some thorns on the side.

"Never has there been such a campaign to debauch the American press," the senator continued. Advertising space, he asserted, had been bought lavishly in the newspapers, "for no purpose but to sway editorial opinion."