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 1478 Distribution. Illustrations. CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. of the Senate, three thousand one hundred copies for the use of the House of Rep'resentatives, and nine hundred copies shall be for the use and distnbution of the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Nebraska. The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared for the Public Printer and shall procure suitable illustrations to be published with these proceedings. Passed, June 13, 1934. June 1.. , 1934. SAINT LAWRENCE WATERWAYS [S.Con.Res., No. 20 .) Resolved by the Senate (the House oj Representatives concurring), Saint Lawrence Wa- That in accordance with paragraph 3 of section 2 of the Printi,ng ter~dJl~i0D81 copies of Act, approved March 1, 1907, the Committee on Forei~ Relatio.ns TarmstroBot (talk)= on, ordered of the Senate be, and is hereby, empowered to have pnnted for Its Vol. 34, p. 1012 . use two thousand copies of the hearings held before a subcommittee of said committee during the second session of the Seventy-second Congress, on the resolution (S.Res. 278), entitled "Resolution author- izing the Committee on Foreign Relations to make an investigation and to hold hearings, respecting matters touching the Saint Lawrence Waterways Treaty", part 1 and 2. Passed, June 14, 1934. lune 16,1934. INVESTIGATING SALE, ETC., OF DAIRY PRODUCTS [H.Con.Res., N~2.j Investigating sale, Whereas an audit made by the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- eg~ products. tration has revealed that distributors in four of the largest milksheds in the United States, for the five years ended Decem- ber 31, 1933, made a net profit of 25.71 per centum on their net plant investment; and Whereas this aud.it shows the net profits of distributors in each of the milksheds for the five-year period to be: Phjladelphia (dis- tributors handling 85 per centum of volume), 30.76 per centum; Boston (distributors handling 75 per centum of volume), 22.45 per centum; Saint Louis (distributors handling 67 per centum of volume), 14.64 per centum; and Chicago (distributors handling 90 per centum of volume), 25.84 per centum; and Whereas during this same five-year period the wholesale price of milk sold by farmers declined 50 per centum, resulting in severe hardships and suffering to milk producers throughout the United States and strikes and violence in many rural and metropolitan centers; and Whereas the aforesaid audit by the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- istration has revealed net profits of milk distributors which tends to establish that similar conditions exist in other milk- sheds throughout the United States; and Whereas an investigation in the District of Columbia pursuant to S.Res. 76, Seventy-third Congress, first session, revealed testi- mony which abund~:fk sustains the contention that over a period of years large . distributors have attempted to create a monopoly in the District of Columbia, and largely as a result of these efforts farmers producing milk for the District of Columbia milkshed have received low returns for their product and have been placed at a serious disadvantage; and