The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-12-11

valuable. AZ DIS lushdhCc SouNcuiou vi
those interested in cattle and the industry
of this country was lately held al
Chicago. The prevalence OF pleuro-
pneumonia and other contagious dis
Cd ses of animals was one Of the chief top
les of discussion. A committee of the con-
vention will invite your cooperation IN
investigating into The causes of tbs Sc dis
eases, and providing methods for their pre-
vention and cure.
trust that congress will not fail at its
present session 10 put
ALASKA UNDER THE PROTECTION OF LAW.
It's people have repeatedly demonstrated
against our neglect to afford them
the maintainsnce and protection ex-
pressly guaranteed by the terms
of the treaty whereby that terrific
nv was cedei 10 heUnited States; for six
teen years they have pleaded in vain for
that which they should have received with
out the asking. They have no law for the
collection of debts, the support of educa-
ton, the conveyance of property, the adj
miuistration of estates or the enforcement
of contracts. None indeed Tor the punish
ment of criminals except such as is offered
against certain custom, commerce and nav
igation acts
The resources of Alaska, especially, in
furs, mines and lumber are considerable in
extent and capable OF d large development,
while in its geographical situation il is
one of political and commercial import
ance; the promptings of interest, therefore,
AS we'll as considerations of honor and good
faith, demand the immediate establishment
of civil government in that territory
Complaints have lately been numerous
and urgent that
CERTAIN CORPORATIONS,
controlling in whole or in part the
facilities for the interstate car
riage of persons and merchan-
die over the great railroads of
the country have resorted in their dealings
with the public to divers measures, unjust
and oppressive In their character. In
some instances the state governments have
attacked and suppressed these evils, but In
others they have been unable 10 afford ade-
quste relief because of the jurisdictional
limitations which are imposed upon them
by the federal constitution. The question
of how far the national government may
lawfully interfere in the pr misses, and
what, If any supervision or control it
ought TO exercise, is one which merits your
careful consideration. While we cannot
fail to recognize the importance of the vast
railway systems of the country IND their
great and beneficial Influences upon the de-
velopment of our material wealth. We
should, on the other hand, remember that
no individual and no corporation
ought to be invested with abso-
Lutte power over the interest of any
other citizen or class of citizens. The right
of these railway corporations 10 fair aud
profitable return upon their investments,
and TO reasonable freedom ip their regu-
lations, must be recognized, but il seems
only Just that so far as its constitutional
authority will permit congress should pro-
tect the people at large in their interstate
traffic against acts of injustice which the
state governments are pOwerlesS TO prevent.
In nv last annual message l called at
tentiob to the necessity of protecting, by
suitable legislation, The forests situated
upon The public domain. In many por-
tons of the west the pursuit of general ag-
resort TO irrigation, while successful irri
CATION would be impossible without the |
AID AFFORDED BY FORESTS
in contributing TO the regularity and con-
stancy of the supply of water. During the
past year severe suffering and great loss of |
property have been occasioned by |
profuse floods, followed by periods |
of unusually low water in many of the
great rivers of the country. These irregu- |
larities were in great measure caused by |
the removal from about the sources of the |
streams in question of the timber by which |
the water supply had been nourished and
protected. The preservation of such por-
ton of the forests on the nationl domain as
are essential to contribute to the equsble
flow of important water courses, is of the
highest consequence. The important trib-
1taries of the Missouri, the LOlumbia and
the Saskatchewan rise in the mountsins of
Montana, near the northern boundary of
he United States, between the Blackfeet
and the Flaihead Indian reservation. This
egion is unsuitable for settlement
put upon the rivers, which flow from ii,
depends the future agricultural develop
nent of vast tract of country. The at
ention of congress is called to the n, cessity
# Withdrawing from the public sale this
,art OF the public domain and establishing
here forest preserve.
THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS
vhich have been held in the United States
uring the present year attracted attention
n many foreign countries, where the an
ouncement of these enterprises had been
made public through the foreign agency of
his government. The industrial exhibit
ion al Boston, and the Southern exposi-
ion al Louisville were largely attended by
he exhibitors of foreign coun-
ries, Notwithstanding the absence of
nv professional characters in these under
akings.
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION
hitch is to be held next year at New Or
cans In commemoration of the centenary |
{ the first shipment of cotton from a port
{ the United States, bids fair to meet with
like gratifying success. Under the act l
{ congress of the 10th of February, 1883, .
eclaring that exposition to be national d
nd int rns;ional in its character, all for
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