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These are the contributions for the second quarter ending June 30, 1949:

California:

Baker & Hamilton, San Francisco.

California Packing Corp., San Francisco.

Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., San Francisco.
Sloss & Brittain, San Francisco.

Colorado:

The Colorado Milling & Elevator Co., Denver. Idaho:

The Idaho Power Co., Boise.

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Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co., Louisville.
Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Louisville.

Michigan:

The Detroit Edison Co., Detroit.
Consumers Power Co., Jackson.

Minnesota:

King Midas Flour Mills, Minneapolis.
Leamington Hotel, Minneapolis.
Northern States Power Co., Minneapolis.
Peavey Elevators, Minneapolis.

F. H. Peavey & Co., Minneapolis.
Peavey Lumber Yards, Minneapolis.

Mississippi: Mississippi Power & Light Co., Jackson.

New York: American Cyanamide Co., New York City.
North Carolina: North Carolina Power & Light Co., Raleigh.
Ohio:

The Bostwick-Braun Co., Toledo.

Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co., Columbus.

Oklahoma Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., Oklahoma City.
Pennsylvania:

Duquesne Light Co., Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Allentown.

Philadelphia Electric Co., Philadelphia.

Texas:

Tex-O'Kan Flour Mills Co., Dallas.

Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Houston.

Lone Star Gas Co., Dallas.

Utah Salt Lake Hardware Co., Salt Lake City.
Virginia: F. S. Royster Guano Co., Norfolk.

Washington: Washington Water Power Co., Spokane.
Wisconsin: Stratton Grain Co., Milwaukee.

Colorado: Public Service Co. of Colorado, Denver.

Florida Florida Power & Light Co., Miami.

Illinois:

Alexander Lumber Co., Aurora.

James E. Bennett & Co., Chicago.
Norris Grain Co., Chicago.

Uhlmann Grain Co., Chicago.

Indiana Public Service Co. of Indiana, Indianapolis.
Iowa: Maytag Company, West Newton.

Kentucky:

Kentucky Utilities Co., Lexington.

Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co., Louisville. Louisiana Southwestern Gas & Electric Co., Shreveport. Michigan: Detroit Edison Co., Detroit.

Minnesota Marshall Wells Co., Duluth.

Missouri:

Hart-Bartlett-Sturtevant Grain Co., Kansas City.
Simonds-Shields-Theis Grain Co., Kansas City.

Montana:

Montana Power Co., Butte.

Montana Elevator Co., Great Falls.

Montana Flour Mills Co., Great Falls. Nebraska: Roberts Dairy Co., Omaha.

I believe I heard recently they have been involved in a law suit. Are you familiar with that case?

Mr. VOORHIS. Fairly so.

Mr. REED. I wonder how many of these took a deduction for their contributions, and if so, in violation of the law, under the inducement and encouragement of the National Tax Equality Association?

Mr. VOORHIS. I don't know whether that company was one that did. Mr. REED. I believe that was one that did.

New Jersey: Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Newark.

New York: Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, New York City.
North Carolina: North Carolina Power & Light Co., Raleigh.
Ohio: Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co., Columbus.
Pennsylvania: Duquesne Light Co., Pittsburgh.
Tennessee: C. M. McClung & Co., Inc., Knoxville.
Texas:

Texas Electric Service Co., Fort Worth.
Moncrief-Lenoir Manufacturing Co., Houston.
Peden Iron & Steel Co., Houston.

San Antonio Machine & Supply Co., San Antonio.

Utah: Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake City.

Wisconsin: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee.

Arkansas: Col. Robert Baker, Fones Bros. Hardware Co., Little Rock. Indiana:

E. B. Martindale, Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co., Indianapolis. M. J. Claussen, Hibbard, Spencer Bartlett & Co., Evanston." Michigan:

C. H. Buhr, Buhr Sons Co., Detroit.

E. B. Morley, Morley Bros., Saginaw.

I wonder how friendly the many elevator companies are out there. I wonder whether they are contributing.

Minnesota:

Weaver Dobson, J. S. Anderson Lumber Co., Minneapolis. H. K. Nilssen, George A Clark & Son, Minneapolis. P. W. Anderson, Farwell, Ozum, Kirk & Co., St. Paul. Globe Elevators, Division of F. H. Peavey & Co., Duluth. Ben C. McCabe, International Elevator Co., Minneapolis. The elevator companies are good friends of the farmers, but they let their grain spoil on the ground before they had cooperatives. H. H. Hill, Janney, Semple, Hill & Co., Minneapolis. Leonard Lampert, Jr.. Lampert Lumber Co., St. Paul. H. G. Dickey, Van Dusen Harrington Co., Minneapolis. Western Paint & Varnish Co., Duluth.

W. L. Taylor, Wilcox Lumber Co., Detroit Lakes. Missouri: Wessel-Shapleigh Hardware Co., St. Louis.

New York: Edwin R. Masback, Jr., Masback Hardware Co., New York City.

North Carolina:

Allison-Erwin Co., Charlotte.

L. D. Nuchols, Charlotte.

Ohio:

H. D. Cram, the T. W. Bingham Co., Cleveland.

A. G. Roiabeck, George Withington Co., Cleveland. Pennsylvania:

William Speltz Supplee, Briddle Co., Philadelphia. E. K. Tryon, Edward K. Tryon Co., Philadelphia. Texas: Ray Grisham, Western Cotton Oil Co., Abilene. Tennessee: R. C. Dickerson, American Cotton Shippers Association, Memphis.

They would like to boost the price to the farmers if they could only get rid of the co-ops. That is what they are looking forward to.

W. F. Stephenson, Statton-Warren Hardware Co., Memphis. Wisconsin: Edward S. Piitzlass, John Piitzlass Hardward Co., Milwaukee.

The above reports list of 138 are contributors of $500 or more to the National Tax Equality Association in 1949, of whom 43 or 31 percent are power companies.

Mr. VOORHIS. And those power companies, incidentally, Congressman Reed, had every opportunity to bring rural electricity to rural America, had they wanted to, and were contemplated as probably being the ones that could do it, but just did not do it. The farmers through their co-ops did it for themselves; and now the power companies don't like it.

Mr. REED. This is a mobilization, through inflammatory literature by a lobbying organization, in an attempt to create a class cleavage between the businessmen and the farmers. But I am not through yet. Here is another list of contributors. This is for 1950 and for the first quarter of the year ending March 31, 1950.

Quarterly reports filed by the National Tax Equality Association with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, under the Federal

Regulation of Lobbying Act, being reports Nos. 689, 1353, 2945, and 4028. For the first quarter we have the following:

Alabama: Moore-Handley Hardware Co., Birmingham.
California: Baker & Hamilton, San Francisco.

Colorado: The Colorado Milling & Elevator Co., Denver.
Illinois:

International Minerals & Chemical Corp., Chicago.
Uhlmann Grain Co., Chicago.

Iowa: Nichols Wire & Aluminum Co., Davenport.
Kentucky: Kentucky Utilities Company, Inc., Lexington.
Louisiana:

Gulf States Utilities Co., Baton Rouge.

Louisiana Power & Light Co., New Orleans.

New Orleans Public Service, Inc., New Orleans.

Maryland: Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co., Baltimore. Massachusetts: Samson Cordage Works, Boston.

Michigan: Consumers Power Co., Jackson.

Minnesota:

Bridgeman-Russell Co., Duluth.

Kelly-Howe-Thompson Co., Duluth.

Marsh McLellan, Marshall Wells Co., Duluth.
Fullerton Lumber Co., Minneapolis.
Charles W. Sexton Co., Minneapolis.

St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., St. Paul.
St. Paul Livestock Exchange, St. Paul.

Another friend of the farmer.

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Association of Casualty and Surety Companies of New York.
Capital Fertilizer Co., New York.

Consolidated Edison Co., New York.

Petroleum Advisers, Inc.

North Carolina:

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Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston.

Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Houston.

Tex-O'Kan Flower Mills Co., Dallas.

Texas Wholesale Hardware Association, Pearsall.
Zork Hardware Co., El Paso.

Virginia Smith-Douglass Co., Inc, Norfolk.

Washington: Washington Water Power Co., Spokane.
Wisconsin: Wisconsin Power & Light Co., Madison.

These are the contributors for the second quarter, ended June 30, 1950.

Illinois:

Mr. Emmett Barker, James E. Bennett & Co., Chicago.

Mr. James Norris, Norris Grain Co., Chicago.

Louisiana: Mr. Frank M. Wiskes, Southwestern Gas & Electric Co., Shreveport.

Michigan: C. R. Landrigan, Detroit Edison Co., Detroit.

Minnesota: W. M. Trailor, Wilcox Lumber Co., Detroit Lakes.
Missouri:

Mr. Paul D. Bartlett, Hart-Bartlett-Sturtevandt Grain Co., Kan-
sas City.

Mr. J. K. Naylor, Pet Milk Co., Kansas City.

Nebraska: Mr. Paul C. Gallagher, Paxton-Gallagher Co., Omaha. New Jersey: George H. Blake, Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Newark.

New York: Thomas H. Truslow, Corning Glass Works, Corning.
Ohio: Mr. W. E. Caldwell, Cleveland Twist Drill Co., Cleveland.
Pennsylvania: Mr. Edward Torter, Philadelphia Electric Co., Phila-
delphia.

Tennessee: Bruce Keener, Jr., Knoxville.
Virginia:

W. T. Wright, S. F. Royster Guano Co., Norfolk.

Mr. I. D. Dawes, Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp., Richmond. Wisconsin: G. W. Van Derzee, Wisconsin Electric Power Co., Milwaukee.

These are the contributors for the third quarter ended September 30, 1950.

California:

Wakefield, Baker, & Hamilton, San Francisco.

J. C. Folliard, Sloss & Britain, San Francisco.

Colorado: C. A. Burkhart, the Denver Clearinghouse Association, Denver.

Connecticut: C. F. Thompson, Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Co., Wallingford.

District of Columbia: Davis Weir, State Loan and Finance Corp., Washington.

Florida: McGregor Smith, Florida Power & Light, Co., Miami.

Illinois:

F. K. Cullman, Bowman Dairy Co., Chicago.

A. W. Peake, Standard Oil Co., Chicago.

Indiana: R. A. Gallagher, Public Service Co. of Indiana, Indianapolis.

Kentucky: Charles R. Bottorss, Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co., Louisville.

Louisiana G. M. Andrews, New Orleans Pulic Service, Inc., New
Orleans.

Michigan: Mr. C. R. Landrigan, Detroit Edison Co., Detroit.
Minnesota:

F. Peavey, Hesselefinger, S. H. Peavey & Co., Minneapolis.
H. G. Dickey, Van Dusen-Herrington Co., Minneapolis.

W. L. Taylor, Wilcox Lumber Co., Detroit Lakes.

P. W. Anderson, Farwell, Ozun, Kirk & Co., St. Paul.
John H. Moore, Marshall Wells Co., Duluth."

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