Note 429 — Chapter VII · The Extension of Federal Control through Exclusion from the Mails
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See Regulation of Cotton Exchanges, p. 310 ff. (Hearings before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives (April, 1914)). See also 63d Cong., 2d Sess., House Rept. 765. It should be pointed out that the “trading in futures” that it was desired to prohibit was in the nature of gambling contracts and had come under the ban of local laws.