The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-04
THE CATTLE KINGS.
They Continue Their Work at St
Louis.
The Third and Fourth Day. Proceedlngs-
Resolutions Discussed and Adopted
Congress Asked for Proper LeGis-
lati0n-Matters Discussed.

ST. Louis, Mo-, November 26.-The Ma
tional Cattle and Horse Growers COnven-
tion resumed its session yesterday morning
with General Brisbin in the chair. The
committee on resolutions reported as fol-
lows:
Be It resolrsd, That the United States Con-
gress is respectfully petitiOned to enact Q
Law BY which the setting Of FIRE to ranch
and mber on public domain Of the United
States or in the Indian country shall be pun
ished BY fine and Imprisonment.
Be rssoircd, That this convention 10 In
vide for the appointment By the President of
the United States of q commission of five
men. who shall be charged with the duty OF
OF pleuro-pneumonia among cattle and who
shall be authorized for that purpose to
quarantine one portion OF the country
against the shipment of live stock from
where the disease exists; to employ assist
ance, including the best veterinary skill to
be found, and to make all necessary rules
and regulat oBs for enforcing the duties
of said commission to be familiar with mat
tiers of breeding and handling live stock and
mon Of good executive ability: the members
OF said commission to be paid salary com.
mensurate with the duties they are required
to render. Whenever it should become
necessary to slaughter any stock in order to
extirpate any disease, said commission shall
sufficient appropr alton made for the pur-
pose OF enforcing the law.
WHEREAS. 1t is an accepted fact that the
passage OF apparently healthy cattle from
the coast country and lowlands cOmmuni-
Gates disease called splenetic or Spanish
fever to the cattle OF the higher attitudes,
and the fact in connection with this disease
after having been kept for a limited time in
the higher attitudes do not communicate this
disease. This infection has proven very dis
astrous to herds and cattle In these more
elevated regions. and created such appre-
tensions in these sections that quarantine
and other restrictive regulations have been
adopted in several Western States and Ter
their accustomed markets. These regula-
tiOns are not uniform: in some States and
Territories they are virtually an Introduction
upon interstate commerce; in others oner-
Gus taxes are imposed: therefore
Be Il resolved, That your committee are OF
the opinion that these conflicting regula-
tione, some OF them arbitrary and difficult IL
persisted in, prove disastrous to the cattle
interests of the country. and will greatly
diminish the value of cattle in certain iocali-
ties and augment them In Others, by disturb
ing also the natural laws OF trade and OBJ
structing its avenues. SO that mOpOpOlies are
built up at the expense of the consumer. In
view of these facts. your committee would
ventiOn request Congress to pass such laws
as will place the whole control and juTisdic-
ton with the general Government. giving
! authority to establish quarantine resuia.
apart from the lands belonging to the United
States such quarantine grounds as shall be
ample protection and best promote and SUBJ
serve the cattle interests of the entire
country.
The first resolution was adopted The
second provoked considerable debate.
Moore, of Colorado. urged the convention
to stand by the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Hancock, of Texas. favored the resolution
at length. General Brisbin moved that the
resolution be tabled. The motion was lost.
RyersOn, of New Mexico, offered as sub
stitute the following:
Resolpcd, That this convention respectfully
asks Congress to enact such measures as
will effectually stamp out the disease of
which may be brought to or exist among the
cattle of the United States.
Adjourned.
Fourth Day.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November 27.-The
fourth days session of the National Cattle
and Horse Growers Association was opened
with prayer by the Rev. S. W. MarstOn. in
which touching reference was made to the
death of Vice President Hendricks. Before
to business resolutions were pre-
scented by Mr.. King, of Utah, expressive of
the deep sorrow felt by the association over
the death of the Vice President, which were
passed and copy of them ordered to be
sent to the widow of the deceased by tele-
graph.
Messrs. Brisbin, of Idaho, Moore, of Col
orado. Thornton. of New Mexico, Swan, OF
Wyoming, and Pryor, of Texas, were APP
pointed a committee to confer with repre-
sentatives Of the American Hide and
Leather Association on the subject Of
branding cattle.
The special order, being tho matter Of the
the appointment of a national
commission, was then
taken up
Mr.. Ryerson, of New Mexico, spoke at
length in favor of his substitute for the
requesting the President to ap.
point commission of five practical breed
ers, the one leaving the matter in the hands
of Congress without restriction. He said
that Congress would have the Enal action
ut any rate, and it would be better that it
should be not hampcred by suggestions.
The cattiemen all wanted proper National
legislation in the matter of extermi-
mating diseases. and were united as
they sang I'VE are coming, Grover Cieve-
land, three hundred thousand strong, shout
ing the battle cry Of quarantine" After
debate vote was taken on RyersOn's sub
stitute, and it was adopted without dissent
The third resolution Of the committees
Congress to adopt measures
providing for the regulation by quarantine
for spIenetic or Spanish fever. 1t was UNI
passed amid great applause.
X. G. Head, Of Colorado, submitted pa
per upon the movement Of cattle from the
south to the north It was an argument
for national trail. figures being introduced
to show the inability Of the only two avail
able railroads TO carry the cattle, as at the
lowest estimate, during the removal season,
1t would require go cars, equal to eleven |
trains OF twenty cars each, daily, to trans /
port the cattle from one section to another. |
He favored railroad shipment as the best |;
but in view Of the inadequate facilities and !
the uncertainty Of shipment he urged tho |
keeping open Of the trail.
was adopted as part of the report of the 1
Committee ON Resolutions to be forwarded 4
to Congress. Adjourned. /
Omaha Matters.
OMAHA, NEB., November 60 The ex.
animation Of j. W. Lauer. charged with /
the killing of his wife, has been postponed 4
until tomorrow. 1t is intima;ed that when
the case passes beyond tie jurisdiction OF