H. R. 7743. A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended, regulating interstate and foreign commerce in livestock, live- stock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture thereunder, and H. R. 8536. A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture thereunder, Brown, H. Templeton, general counsel, American Meat Institute. Bucy, Charles W., Assistant General Counsel for Marketing and Regulatory Laws, Department of Agriculture. Butz, Earl L., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; accompanied by Campbell, Wallace, director, Washington office, Cooperative League, 3, 306, 312 Davies, Aled P., director, department of livestock, American Meat 355 Dixon, Hon. Henry Aldous, a Representative in Congress from the Hardenbergh, Wesley, president, American Meat Institute; accompa- nied by Aled P. Davies, director, department of livestock, American Healy, Patrick B., assistant secretary of the National Milk Producers Federation, accompanied by M. R. Garstang, general counsel Kintner, Earl W., General Counsel; accompanied by James E. Corkey, Assistant General Counsel, and John T. Loughlin, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission. Liljenquist, L. Blaine, Washington representative of the Western 93, 120, 335 McDonald, Angus, coordinator of legislative services of the National McDougal Livestock Co., Collinsville, Calif Norton, E. M., secretary of the National Milk Producers Federation; 205, 207 Pettus, David M., Director, Livestock Division, Agricultural Market- ing Service; Charles W. Bucy, Assistant General Counsel; and Charles L. Grant, director of finance and budget officer, United States Department of Agriculture.... Quinlan, William A., general counsel, United States Wholesale Grocers' Association, Inc., accompanied by Roland H. Rowe, vice president Rogers, Watson, president, National Food Brokers Association Sanders, C. T. (Tad), secretary of the American National Livestock Smith, Harold O., Jr., executive vice president, United States Wholesale Grocers' Association, Inc., accompanied by William A. Quinlan, general counsel, and R. H. Rowe, vice president and Smith, Hon. Wint, a Representative in Congress from the Sixth Specht, F. W., chairman and president of Armour & Co., accompanied by R. H. Borchers, vice president, and George E. Leonard, Jr., 298 Watkins, Hon. Arthur V., United States Senator from the State of Woolley, Frank K., of the American Farm Bureau Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by - Mayer, Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown and Platt, Chicago, 66 Crawford, E. S., Salt Lake City, Utah, telegram of July 12, 1957__ National Wool Growers Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, tele- 393 New Mexico Čattle Growers Association, Albuquerque, N. Mex., River Markets Livestock Group, Kansas City, Mo., telegram of 391 Summary of disposition of complaints pertaining to Packers and Summary of dispositions of matters pertaining to Packers and United States Wholesale Grocers Association, Washington, D. C., 372 371 Alive and kicking- Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by-Continued Directory of meat plants in southern California_ Page 60 54 Financial summary of all United States manufacturing corpora- 61 Net income after taxes of leading manufacturing corporations, 62 Sales and net earnings of 19 individual corporations whose 1956 61 Yield and grade selling--- 59 Liljenquist, L. Blaine: Meatpacker immunity from FTC asked by Giant.. 93 108 Western States Meat Packers Association, Inc., San Francisco, 110 Address before the ninth annual pasture-forage-livestock con- 257 Excerpts from Senate hearings (pp. 59-63), 28 complaint cases.. 261 246 Quinlan, William A.: United States Wholesale Growers' Association, Inc., Washington, 347 Woolley, Frank K.: Thirty-five questions__. 131 JURISDICTION OF PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a. m., in room 1310, New House Office Building, Hon. Harold D. Cooley (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. We are glad to have Mr. Earl Butz, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, with us this morning, to discuss the provisions of H. R. 7743. I believe, Mr. Butz, the Department has already filed with us a report, dated July 8 on H. R. 7743. (H. R. 7743, and report, and H. R. 8536 are as follows:) [H. R. 7743, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended, regulating interstate and foreign commerce in livestock, livestock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products and eggs, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture thereunder, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended (42 Stat. 159, as amended; 7 U. S. C. 181 and the following), is amended as follows: (1) By amending section 201 (7 U. S. C. 191) to read as follows: "SEC. 201. When used in this Act "The term 'packer' means any person principally engaged in the business (a) of buying livestock in commerce for purposes of slaughter, or (b) of manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products for sale or shipment in commerce, or (c) of buying livestock in commerce for purposes of slaughter and of manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products for sale or shipment in commerce, or (d) of manufacturing or preparing livestock products for sale or shipment in commerce, but no person engaged in such business of manufacturing or preparing livestock products shall be considered a packer unless also engaged in any business referred to in clause (a) or (b) above."; (2) By striking the words "It shall be unlawful for any packer or any live poultry dealer or handler to:" at the beginning of section 202 (7 U. S. C. 192) and inserting in lieu thereof "It shall be unlawful for any packer or live poultry dealer with respect to any activity, or any other person with respect to buying livestock or live poultry for purposes of slaughter, to:"; and (3) By inserting after the word "person" in the second sentence of section 503 (7 U. S. C. 218b) the word “principally." Hon. HAROLD D. COOLEY, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives. DEAR CONGRESSMAN COOLEY: This is in reply to your request of July 1 for a report on H. R. 7743, a bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture under the act. |