How did US Representative Robert F Broussard of Louisiana in 1910 propose to counter the high prices of the Beef Trust?

He thought to import hippopotami.

House Resolution 23261, also known as the "American Hippo bill", was a bill introduced by Representative Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into the bayous of the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hippo_bill

Broussard reasoned that the animals would eat water hyacinth plants clogging the state's waterways, as well as providing meat. While his bill was backed by former President Theodore Roosevelt and the Department of Agriculture, Congress did not pass it. Newspapers of the time dubbed hippo meat "lake cow bacon."