Government Forecasts Hotly Ar-reigned as Gambling New York, Oct. 28.
Senator Caraway alleges that the costing planters of dollars, and requests that the Government's whole crop reporting system should be subjected to a searching inquiry by congressional committees. proposes to introduce a bill to prevent gambling in cotton and grain, In the meantime, he asserts, Monday's allegedly Inaccurate forecast cost growers over $50,000,000, and says that if the Government was actually allied with speculators at could not have ce-operated more effectively with the bear element of the cotton exchange, with Senator Caraway in his effort to remove the Government from the gambling busin On the other hand the Department of Agriculture declares its estimates are based on official information and declines to with draw anything—Reuter's American Service,
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