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thousand eight hundred gentlemen in the
convention, and it would plainly have
been impracticable to record the entire in
dividual vote Of such a body OF men upon
the questions discussed. and determined
by ballot, at various times. 1t therefore
became necessary to establish some basis
Of representation whereby the vote Of
each State, Territory or Association could
announce its vote through a Chairman OF
authorized delegate. Numerically the
Texas stockmen far outnumbered the rep
resentation from the other stock regions;
but the gentlemen from hat State had no
issue to present other than the matter ofthe
Nationaltrail. The Colorado, New Mexico,
Wyoming and Texas men did not agree
on representation. The various County
Associations Of Texas, numbering, in some
instances, ten or twenty men, demanded
representation equal to that of Associations
of two hundred members. The Colorado
cattlemen, evidently piqued at the stand
ing ofthe Wyoming Association abroad,
endeayored to place it in a false light be-
fore the Texas delegates, while the repre-
sentatiyes of New Mexico lowered about
the tanks of the Convention awaiting an
opportunity to seize any advantage that
might be offered. The Colorado dele
gates. in a spirit-of antagouism to Wyo-
ming, stoutly asserted to the Texas men
that the Wyoming vote would be against
the trail. The Wyoming men replied by
saying to the Texans. that as Texas cattle
could not ONE into Wyoming by raj
the gentlemen from this Territory
would not oppose the trail. The
Texans then asked an endorse
ment of the trail by the Colorado
delegation but no such endorsement was
given and, indeed, no gentleman from
Colorado dared pledge his State to a
measure when he knew that such a
pledge would practically be the afixing of
his signature to his own political death
warrant in that State.
The representation as eventually estab-
lished resulted in New Mexico, with only
one-third of the cattle of Wyoming, being
given eight voters. to n for this Terri
tory, while Texas was given the practical
control Of the ballots. The Texas men,
ignoring the fact that the eastern men, if
invited to unite with them, could lend to
the measures of the convention the at
least possible support of a large Congress
sional representation, preferred to appear
in Congress with the small support of the
Lone Star State and Colorado. As a
simple matter Of legislative wisdom this
was a suicidal policy, but urged by Colo
RADIO, whose sole object seemed TO be the
selection of the chairman as of more i'm
portance than any industrial measure, the
Texans adhered to that unwise policy.
Various matters were discussed but
aside from endorsing the action of the
National Convention in the matter of
leasing Indian lands and with reference to
pleuro-pneumonia, nothing was accom-
plished, except. of course, resolutions re-
garding the National trail.
This trail c~ontemplates the surrendering
by Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas of a
strip of territory from each respective
State, ten miles in width, through their
entire area The farmers of Kansas can
not be expected to vacate their homes and
abandon'their farms in order to give to
Texas the privilege of placing a disease
%impregnated barrier through the heart of
the State. Nebraska will hardly surrender
that considerable portion of the State TO
the TEXAS cattle and the Colorado del