Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-23
Delegates to National Cattle and
Horse Growers Association
En- Route to St, Louis,
4 Thousand Members and Several
Thousand Outsiders Expected TO
BE in Attendance.
Tova. Representatives 90 work For Ma
tionnI Trnii aud other Measures
important 90 Tcsas.



Sr Isi-ts. Mo. NOV. ga large mum.
her oi delegates to the National Cattle
ana Horse Growers convention which j.
to meet here 90 morrow morning in the
great musical ball at the exposition build
ing arrived to-day aud larger number
win come tomorrow. Tie convention
viii differ from the one Of last year IN the
respect that thagwns huge mass-mccting
for tho purpose Of organizing d national
association while this one Will be dele.
gate convention made up of regularly or
daned REPRESENTATIVES of states aud ter
ritorial organizations and individual com
pauics. II Is expected that about one
il,onsand delegates viii be in convention
and that three TO hyc thousand outsiders,
but an cattlemcn, win be here from all
sections Of the country ana that
they VIII look after The interests OF the
cattle Industry
tuE rENA- bEirGNE-,
q, WIS tine case last year, win bring up
soHr interesting questions ioI discus
sion, and are uypcctcd 90 urge their view,
uppu lue convention 100 thcIr usual earn
c-t and vigorous style. so definite line
ul action hH- been decided upon by the
loEH- stock associations. but there have
been informal conferences between some
OF Size most extensive Uuchmrn, aud as %
result OF those conferences request and
q statement OF facts wa- agreed upon TO
poe presented 10 the convention by H..
Holden OF wichita Falls. The request is
for national trail, the adjustment OF
Ineffective, unjust aud inslnccrc quaran-
tine laws aud the protection Of
tlM DNIrLTNTN on IuE -ulTli
from railroad creed The statement of
tucs will open with declaration OF the
object Of the convention to best harmon
III. the industry Of the country, but the
mcncoumgug opinion is expressed in
connection with It that the convention,
not being nOn.compctitiyc body, viii
not succeed in It's purpose. II Will be
asserted that Texas Is simply asking equal
right, with her ncighbors In the North,
which rights have in the past been denied.
ltNill be stated As fact that the mill
Ions of dollars invested in the cattle busi-
ness No Texas are surrounded 10y
rlu rETIN JEAIUr~IE-
ol men VA the same business in
the different states adjoining, and
thH' laws arc passed which ON their face
are for sanitary purposes, but which
under the surface are simply hiuckHdrS
auI barriers 10 the prosperity OF Texas,
a5 per cent in value OF the stocEmcn OF
the north being I'm favor of such Quulau.
tine laws regardless to conformity with
tho sanitary regulations as viii enhance
the value OF their own stock. Every at
tempt 10 attain anything in the right
direction has been frustrated NY few
large stockmcn. The geographical loCa-
tlun Of Texas win be pointed ont as very
uuiOr'unlfc rs she Is hCmmcd in from
tlr only market she has by other com
pglng states but the time has come
whom the cattle interest OF the South viii
bn found
TOO COLOSSAL TO
br trlAcd with, or have their petitions
laid ON the table. II Will be stated that
the persons making the propositions to
establish a national trail and modify the
existing quarantine laws win meet with
tHn opposition OF Tailrods rs well as
Northern cattle interests 4 national
trail would have the effect of making
railroad competition, and would keen
considerable money out of the strong
boxes OF rich Eastern stockholders. In.
stead OF being saltcd down there 1t would
be- kept IN circulation In the Western com,
mcrcal districts and would result in the
people
urrrING CHEAPER HEEF.
Tue statement viii conclude with a re-
quest that the members Of the convention
adopt a different policy from that hithcr-
to pursued aud not adopt resolutions here
aud then 20 home and act in an entirely
different direction.