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McMORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, August 11, 1938. What Others e Services of Butler B. Hare in Congress TARIFF MEASURE I B. B. HARE’S LAW FLAYED BY HARE GETS INTO ACTION SCOFFS AT REPUBLICAN CLAIMS OF RELIEF TO FARMER IN THE NEW BILL. WASHINGTON, June 18.—Special —Just as jthe SknooftMHa^ley tariff bill Was going through the process of passage by the House, preceding Its journey to the executive offices and signature by (the president. Represen tative Butler B. Hare made a speech in attack upon it which is likely to find its way, as did a previous clever tariff onsluagbt by the Carolinian, into the campaign material of the Democratic party. SECOND DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN AUTHOR OF LAW THAT ENMESH ED CROOKED PRODUCE -DEALER May 8, 1929.—The following press report recently issued by the U. S. department of Agriculture is of par ticular interest to fruit and tn^ck growers of South Carolina for it will he remembered that Congressman Butler B. Hare, representing the sec ond congressional district, was the ^uthor of the law referred to. Since the law has operated so successfully in regard to consignment of perish able farm products it is understood jemocrauc # i > While the address of Represents-: that Mr. Hare is planning to have tive Hare waa introdnced by a gener- ,he act amended so that its provisions el discussion and criticism of the 'v»h reterenee to talse representa- high tariff theory or the {republican I tions may apply to those tvno pur- Party aa opposed to the Democratic chase perishable term products in doctrine on this subject the real the same manner and to the same A SYMPOSIUM FROM THE PRESS OF THE UNITED STATES .burden of the speech was the pre sentation of evidence, backed by of- .flcial figures from the department of cammerce i to show 'that the new tariff while touted as aiding the farmer, would so raise ithe price of what 'the farmer buys that the net result •vyiH be a loss for him as compared With his plight under the existing tariff. “While the bill was being consider ed about a year ago.” said Mr. feare extent as it applies to those who re ceive them upon consignment. “William O. Wooten of Portsmouth Ohio, manager of the Portsmouth Produce company, plead guilty to a c’|:rge of violating the Prodiice Agency Act and was sentenced to pay e fine of $100.00 for a first of fense. The presentment of the U. S. District Attorney charged that the defendant, knowingly and / with in tent ‘to defraud, made false state- d about a year ago. * | ments to a shipper of a car of peach- “I tmdertook to show rom i ( ^ tQ amount of fright charg- ious provisions cw, n my ^ * es and as to the proceeds of their ment, it would opera© ena e ( sa i ei tjjq accounting rendered by Into law against those engaged W the p ortsmoath p roduce company the agricultural industry. i o , sllowed the nc{ . proceeds of the car q^eak in generaiues, u p th-i* 1 lesS freight, cofi'.mission, etc, as specifically the amount, ^ a . _ j $86.83. Investigation by the Bureau would, have to be Pat y a ar j' of Agriculture Economics showed that upon the .purchase of various arti-, ^ net j)roceeda were $146.07 cles needed in the operation of Ma ( and that th0 gum af ¥59>24 had been farm and in connection with his fam- ; fr „ r111 ._ nt ,. ily budget. FYom the figures sub mitted at that time it was estimated that a farmer of moderate circumstan ces with a family of five or more would .pay on an average $150 to ( $1, 000 T>er year ip the way of tariff du ties on those articles necessary fer hi£ home and farm. Up to this time* the estimate has not been de nied.” ANSWERS REPUBLICANS Th.© South Carolinian then took up the claim of the Republicans that higher prices for farm products would follow the enactment of the Smoot Hawley bill. He said that he did not feel certain that there would be any such increase, for it would have to be very high indeed to make it equal the increased prices which the fann er would have to pay as a result of the new tariff, for what .he had to buy. In this connection he quoted fradulently withheld. “When confronted with the facts Wooten made full restitution to tho shipper but the evidence of fr.vud was to conclusive that the Depart ment of' Agricu’ture transmitted the case with the supporting documents to the Department of Justice for pros ecutien .w^th the result above indi cated. / “The Department considers thisj case of special importance as it es tablishes the principle that payment made after the discovery of a fraud shall not operate to relieve the of fender from prosecution and punish ment.—Gaze'tte. BUTLER B. HARE Congressman Hare Works to Lower the Cost of Fertilizer HARE TO STUDY POTASH DEPOSITS HARE WORKS TO GET HUGE SUM CONGRESSMAN ADVOCATES ERECTION OF POST OFFICE BUILDING IN EVERY DISTRICT Butler B. Hare, congressman from this district, speaking in the na tional House of Representatives on unemployment legislation last Tues day, advocated that an appropriation of $400,000,000 be made for the .pur- PLACING FINGERS ON VERY TROUBLE SEVERAL APPEAR BEFORE AGRI CULTURE COMMITTEE Drop in Price Inconsistent With Slight Difference in Actual Ginnings. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 1926 — Placing their fingers on what appears to be the very troubles with the pre pose of erecting at least thirty-two! sent cotton situation, several persona post office buildings in every con gressional district in the States. In his speech, Mr. Hare also advo cated the payment of soldiers’ ad justed service certiflleates at this wbo appeared before the house com- United mittee on agriculture with reference to the bill of Representative Jones of Texas, which would reduce the de partment of agriculture from time to time pointed to the fact that while time. Mr. Hare also proposed that ginning reports up to December !• an appropriation of $800,000,00u orj 1926, showed only three-fourths of a $900,000,000 be made to construct million more bales of cotton ginned every mile of the roads now traveled by rural routes on unimproved High ways. Mr. Hare’s friends in this section than at the same time last year, the difference in the price fell from 22 cents in 1925 to 11 or 12 cents in 1926 Passing over the dangerous guese- agree with him on his statements .'.hat - work now appearing to obsess United ihes© appropriations will be neces- sairy to give employment to the seven million people now out of work. The speech made by Congressman Efrre follows: States officials, it was shown that at the present time there are possibl> 3,000,000 bales o<f cetton—hollies, dog tail or worse, which are scarcely worth anything at all, the lint being gather- ‘Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of ed with the boll and separated at tho the committee, it is not my purpose to trespass upon your time to ad vance some suggestions I consider pertinent in connection off this bill, but I want to call attention to the fact that we are appropriating only $110,000,000 to relieve unemployment, a situation well recognized through out the entire United States, for it is not confined to any one section. It has been stated that we have 7, gin, all this being ralted as cotton—so many bales, presumably of middling grade. This cannot have hut one ef fect to greatly depress the market. It was shown that had there been a law this year that would count this poor cotton separate from that of a good grade the present depressed price would not exist. Mr. Hare directed his remarks pri marily. to that part of the bill Whicli \ Labor Representatives Endorse Hare Washington, D. *C., July 9, 1930 >uy. in tnis connection ue tiLioLcu ’ y x * r /-I To the Officers and Members of the he statement of former Congressman • , . T i i t-,- • • Pordney of Michigan, co-author of :he Fordney-McCumber aot of 1922, vho said at that time to the house: “My friends, as far as rates,are joncerned, this is purely an agricul- tiral bill.” Mr. Hare then adduced figures from he, department of commerce compar- ng the prices of farm products and manufactured articles in the four- reir period from 1912 to 1916 with Sure Legislative Boards. Divisions and Lodges, Engine and Train Ser vice and }I. of W. Brotherhoods, Second Congressional District at South Carolina. Dear Sirs and Brothers:- Another great State and National campaign is in progress, in which the interests of every worker are vitally concerned, and believing it to be the desire of every railroad man, eir period from iyi<s to wan and h) fa(;t of eVery working mar;> to le prices of the same commoditiM sbow b5s appreciation of those who i tti'; period from 1926 to . bave demonstrated their friendly at- hes-3 showed that in the m^jor crops t }t U( j 8 toward the interests of labor -cotton, com, wheat, oats and ay dui j n g p ast sessions off Congress, -there was not only an increase in y 01lr National Legislative Jtepresen- roductidn hut aJi increase in tatives in Washington take pleasure mging from 2 to 33 per cent. . y jn adv jgj n g ^ t he favorable record of hould not the farmers growing these rops be in better financial condition t the end of 1929 than at the end 1916?” asked the congressman, re Congressman Butler B. Hare, U. S. Representative from the 2nd District of South Carolina. During his en- — - - - tire service in Congress we have arking that everybody who fieurd f ound bim to be a consistent friend tmivo, +V10+ tViQ fni-mAr’ss rendition „ i ctf those who toil in whatever field ready and willing at all times to work, speak and vote in support of “The only reasonable answer 1 uuye lenrjgiatjou beneficial to tbe people ien able to obtain, continued e and . ugt rea dy to oppose legisla- >eaker, “is that the farmer had to tion f ramed f or t i le benefit of spec- ry a greater increase in pi ice o j . ^ interests and against the masses, e things he had to buy than he re- and ^ j n tuTn mer jts the strong sup- W of incr^e in price port of aU our m e mbe rs and their families, as well as that of all other working men and wemen. Fraternally yours, im knew that the farmer’s condition ad hot improved, but had retrograd- d. ■ • ' ’ '> “The ofliy reasonable answer I baye WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13, 1923 —'Congressman Butler B. Hare, hop ing to secure lower prices for ferti lizers filed evidence with the Feder al trade commission in Washington a few days ago to the effect that a number of the larger fertilizer manu facturers doing business in South Carolina were conspiring or affecting an agreement among themselves to fix the price of fertilizers by “freezing’ out the smart manufacturers, or in dependent concerns and blacklisting dealers who failed or refused to sell fertilizer at prices fixtd and agreed upon by the .larger manufacturert.. In response to his efforts to have the 'commission investigute the matter, Mr. Hare is today advised that the lallegations and evidence submitted are sufficient t*o require the attention of the commission and he was as sured ihc.t an investigator will be sent to South Carolina to investigate the charges.—The Augusta Chronicle SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSMAN NAMED FAVORS MAKING INVES TIGATION TO LOCATE FERTI LIZER INGREDIENT 000,000 people out of employment. If would require the department of ag- that be true, this will mean only riculture to show the amount of cob about $15 per person. It will net be ton that is unspinnable or nom’tender- done. It cannot be done, yet we able on contract. He insisted that the cannot afford to oppose the bill. I government in its estimate® should was very much in hopes that the show the amount of off grade cotton committee would bring a bill repre-i produced or on hand because under stenting a icoi^struletive .program, ia present arrangements this cotton is program that would not only relieve! included in the estimates of total pro the unemployment situation, but at duction and has the effect of show the same tmte' would mean something ing a supply of cotton that is greater really constructive on the part of than actually exists and is used to de- the Government.—Hampton County Guardian. * slved by' way of increase in price >r the things he had to sell.” TABLE SUBMITTED A table was then submitted, on te' basis of official data, setting forth ; n increase in the 1925-1929 period irer the 1912-16 period in the price f farm necessities running from 33 > 86 per cent. The commodities us- j I in the table were wagons, harness lows, harrows, mowers, binders, ioes and sewing machines. ‘That is. j r. Hare summed up, ‘‘if the articles : old were equally weighted as to i-ality or value and the articles pur- j iiasiod wore also correspondingly | eighted, we should see that while ie prlbe'of the crops the farmer had ? sett increased approximately 50 ar cent, over the same period of 2ars; and it should be observed that WASHINGTON, June 7, 1932.— \e period showing the difference in The hanking and currency committee ie increase of prices was after the c f the House today ordered a fav- assage of tile last tariff act in 1922 0 r a ble report on the 1)111 of Congress h’icli was said to be for the special man Hare, requiring federal land ~ -t— —* «— 1 —j banks and joint stock arid banks to ' (Continued On page four) accept their own bonds in saflefnc- POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT G. W. LAUGHLIX, Assistant Grand Chief, National Leg. Representa tives B. of L. E. AUTHUR J. LOWELL, Vice President, National Leg. Representative B. of L. F. & E. A. F. STOUT, National Leg. Representa tive, B. of M. of W. Em ployees. Hare Plan Approved HOUSE ENDORSES HARE FOR POST Feb, 8, 1933.—’Butler B. Hare, Sa-| luda, former member of the national, house of representatives and chair-j man of the house commit’tee on in sular affairs, was ^/cs.erday indorsed ! by tho house of representatives of South Carolina, for the office of gov ernor of t‘he Philippines. The resolution asks for the ap pointment to the post by President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Copies off the resolution are to be sent to South Carolina congressmen and also to the presidem'-clect. The resolution, after being adopt ed by the house, was sent t’o the senate for concurrence.—The State. tion of mortgages when tender Ls made by the mortgagor. Represen tative Stevenson, a member of the committee and a supporter of the bill, was directed by the committeo to preparb the report and submit it to the house.—News & Courier. WASHINGTON, April 29, 1926.— Congressman Butler B. Hare was to day appointed a member of a saib- committee of five to study and make immediate repnjrt to committee on mines and mining as to the advisa bility of appropriating $550,000 annu ally for the next fine years to be us ed by the government in determining location and extent of potash depositg in the United States. It is claimed j by the geological survey officials that; large deposits of potash that can be - used as fertilizers are to be found in ! western Texas. New Mexico and pos sibly Oklahoma. A bijl providing for such an ap propriation passed the senate a few days ago and has been referred to the committee on mines and mining in the house.—The State. Congressman Hare Works For Farmers press prices. “In other words,” he raid, “If it should be found th a t we have 2,000,000 bales of cotton that ia unspinnable it should have the effect of reducing the market supply to that extent.—The State. HOUSE FARM BILL BACKS HARE PLAN MAKES GOOD ADDRESS GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN SHOWS ‘i N EW” SCHEME AS COPY OF SOUTH CAROLINIAN’S WASHINGTON, April 23, 1929— Congressman Hare addressed the Congressman Hare Alert and Active The people of the Second Congress sional District are to be congratulat ed upon having a congressman w r ho is not only capable but who is always alert and active, looking especially to the interests of his constituency in all parts of the district. When Con gressman Hare recently came home, following 'the adjournment of con gress. he found that the people off the Ridge section including Edgefield, Johnston, and Trenton, were serious ly handicapped by inadequate mail facilities, due to the discontinuance of trains between Augusta and Co lumbia. He at once returned to Wash ington to urge the po s t office depart ment to cstaiblish a star route out from Columbia covering the section/ affected by the poor mail facilities. If it is possible to imprvoe the sit- Feb. 12, 1930.—In his remar-ks be-; fore the Agriculture Committee a few! dr.ys ago urging that the six million; dollar seed loan fund should be re-j appropriated and lent to farmers in J the southeastern states who suffered tho loss of their crops as a result of the rain and wind in September 1928 Congressman Hare alleged that many| of thege same farmers lost their crop last year on account of excessive rains are in bad shape now as they were last year, in support of which ho filed with the committee a report 1 house today at s om e length on the from the local Weather Bureau in administration farm relief bill. Dur- Columbia showing that the rainfall ing his speech it was brought out by in the state last year ranged from Representative Larsen of Georgia, five to eight feet, stating that one! th a t the measure is strikingly similar weather station in Greenville County to that introduced by Hare and ad- reported the rainfall ffor 1929 as vocated by him for the past two 96.03 inches. In referring to the years. Although the South Carolina report he pointed outi that the rainfall! congressman was modest in claiming in the' upper half of the state w a s ap- 1 s.ny credit for the ideas embodied in proximate!} 7 six feet which, according: the bill he admitted that it does con- to the Congressmans statement would tain several of the fundamental prin- be seven inches over his head if the £iPles carried in the bill he intro- water had remained ,and was still duced and fought for during the TOth standing, the average rain fall being congress. News & Courier, upward of GO inches.—Hampton Conn ty Guardian. HARE REQUESTS WIRE WORM CASH jT0 INSURE BANK DEPOSITS WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1931 — [ Representative B. B. Hire introduced a biH in the house today that would amend the federal reserve act giving authority to tbs federal board to u^e so much af the net earnings derived by the United States from the fed eral reserve banks as llay be acces sary to insure « 3 much a® 50 per cent, of all deposits in banks con-1 riected with the federal reserve sys-i tem. Speaking of the bill Mr. Hare sail: “It was never intended that the Limit ed States government should make n profit out of the operations of the federal reserve system. The profits really belong to the member banks The purpose of this bill is to take these profits and guarantee through inourance, indemnity bonds, or oth er appropriate means, the deposits of those who see fit to place their Hare’s Measure Is Before Committee wants fifteen thousand WASHINGTON, May 26 1927.—, DOLLARS TO FIGHT PEST The agriculture committee of tho DISTRICT house today began hearings on a billi introduced some time ago by Con- WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1929. Con gressman Butler B Hare, making it gr ess man Butler B. Hare appeared unlawful for a commission merchant before the house appropriations eom- lo destroy, abandon or dump a con-j mittee today urging that $15,000 be signment of fruit, vegetables or oth- appropriated and used in establishing er farm products of any kind until a permanent station in his district for he obtains and holds a certificate tfi e purpose of investigating 'best me- from a go-vernment inspector to the thods of control land eradication effect that the shipment is unmaik-J wire worm in several off the ceastal counties of Souts Carolina. It was through the efforts initiated by Mr. etable or unfit for use. In bis opening remarks before thej committee Mr. Hare stated-that the Hare that an appropriation off $,000 bill had two fundamental purposes:' was made for this purpose last year one is to prevent a consignee or com-, an l w a s to he expended in Hanvpto* mission merchant from damping or -bmper, and Colleton counties, but Mr saying he had dumped or destroyed. Hare pointed out today that lit le a shipment of fruit, vegetables or ° r nothing had been done and ex- perishable crop without good and suf- pressed the opinion ‘hat the ap pro- Ik-lent reason, and the other is to priation had actually been delivered prevent «uch merchants from making' ^ used in other sections of the traudulent -returns to ghippers. country, particularly in some of the western states. He went into the matter thorough ly nd in detail, showing the ©norm- money Shite in those institutions. nation, Mr. Hare will see that it is done. Ilis efforts in behalf of the, people of the Ridge section render! ous damage now being done by the a real service to the people by whom' worm in sections of his district and he was elected. This is one of manyj urged that the appropriation be made instances in which Mr. Hare has. available at once so that .the work Tho nufde his value directly felt.—Edge-! may be inaugurated as soon as pos* ifeld Advertiser. ikle. The State. 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