The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-26

of any state or territory imposing tax up
on freight or anything the subject OF COM
MERGE taken up without the state or terri
tory and brought within the same: or taken
up within a state oil territory and carried
out of it, or car led acrossthemfrom one state
or territory to another, is repugnant to
that provision of the constitution OF the
United States which ordains that congress
shall nave power to regulate commerce
with foreign nations and among the several
states and with the Indian tribes"
Congress alone has the power to legisl tie up
on and regulate interstate commerce, ana
legislation upon the subject by any other
power, is a plain usurpation OF the power
vested exclusively in Congress.
The driving of cattle or stock OF an kind is
transportation OF the same. Transporta-
ton is essetial to commerce, or rather 1t Is
commerce itself, and any obstacle to 1t or
burden laid upon 1t by Legislative authori-
ty is regulation.
If cattle are being driven from point in
shipped out of the nation. thisis commerce,
f IF cattle SUnef0' are A' driven from
from some point outside Of the Creek Ma
ton to some point in the same to be ship
ped by railroad to some point outside the
same, this is commerce, and commerce
among the States. In either case congress
The Indian nations in the Indian Terrific.
nv have no higher power over the matter
of interstate commerce than the States.
They have no power to regulate 1t, conse-
quently the Indian nations have no such
power.
This tax of 81 per head on cattle passing
through the Creek country, or taken up at
some point in that country and driven to a
railroad station for shipment to some point
outside the Nation, is q burden leid upon
commerce and regulation of it, and any
law of theirs thus undertaking to regulate
it is void, and they have no right to collect
such tax.
II persons take cattle into their country
to Craze them they have right to collect
erazer's tax; but II cattle are passing over
their country. being shipped to market,
they have no right to collect any tax for
transit of the same over their country. l
aus 1si aUsd i''p'' 1. G. PARKER,
U. s. District Judge.
The Drovers Journal published in Chi
cago, says: The prediction is made that
when the Texas and far western come to-
gethea this fall, Chicago will receive as
high as 40 900 to 90, 600 per week. We have
had the first figure and can stand the lat
ter, but the prices may make ranchmen
vince little,
A writer asks for an explanation of the
"full difference of the words thorough
bred and blooded STOCK" to which the
Breeders Gazette replies:
AS we have had frequent occasion to state,
the word thoroughbred it used In two SEN
SEES. 1t is the..name of the. English and Ameri-
can runping-horse Some authorities have
claimed the word should be confined to this
meaning; but good usage and authority
sanction its use with the meaning OF pure
bred or full blood. Originally the word
probably was applied to the best and most
carefully bred administrators where the
breeders had thor )ughly done their work.
Some breeders use the word as signify
ing that the animals to which 1t is applied
are eligible to entry in pedigree book;
but this is not good usage. Except in rela-
ton to the horse the word may be used as
synonymous with pure bred or full blood.
The termed blooded stock is used some
what loosely. 1t is, OF course, properly
applied to any pure-bred animals. The
owner of pure Devons, Merinos, Berkshires,
Plymouth Rocks, etc., deals in FLOODED
stock. But the phrase may also be applied
to animals not pure bred. Hieh-bred or
cross-bred animals may be so spoken OF.
We may say one man has only COM mon
stock; his neighbor, blooded stock; a third,
only pure-bred stock.
II would be an advantage If all these
terms were less used than they are. The
names Of breeders should be all that Is
needed to imply purity of breeding. live
say a man is a Chinaman we do not think
1t necessary to preface the word with pure
bred" or "full bred" Why should we
when we call an animal q Southdown?
There are times when the use of some OF
these words is unavoidable, but they are
often used unnecessarily ana loosely.
QUOTATIONS TODAY.
Reported by VIII N. Wallis, Droyers aud
Butcners Stock Yard, North Side Elm ST
BEEVES-CoIn beeves, none, fair TO good
grass be-ye', 3a31fc per pound; medium grass
beeves, 2Z@3c per pound.
| CoW5-Barren cows, Is 00635 90; mich cows.
North Texan grades. 40 90 go co. common TO
fair, IS 0Oe 90 90. Stock cattle aIoud. 15OOg2O0.
CALVES-Yeal calves, s 0lsS 90 yearEngs,
10616 co. two-year-olds, l201S.
SHEEP-Good mutton, 3@3Hc per pound;
medium mutton, 2K@3c per pound; stock sheep
00a13 70.
GoATs-2 26@25o per head,
HOG5-Corn fed, none; medium. none; ttock
hogs In good demand none In market