Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-27
THE CArTLEMEN.
Fourth Days Session of the National
Convention at 1T. Louis.

sT. LOUIS, Mo-, November 26.-The
fourth days session of the convention of
the National Cattle and Horse Growers
Association was opened with prayer by
the Rev. s. W. Marston, in which touch
ing reference was made to the death OF
Vice-President Hendricks.
Before proceeding to business resolu-
tions presented by King of Utah, express
sive of the deep sorrow felt by the asso-
ciation over the death of the Vice-Presi
dent, were passed, and a copy ordered to
be forwarded to his wife by telegraph.
The Committee on the Revision of the
Constitution reported an amendment to
the article on dues, fixing the admission
fee at $40 for an individual and $50 for an
association, and the annual dues at S. for
an individual and SIS for an association.
A further amendment empowers the Ex.
ecutiye Committee to determine the date
of holding the next convention. Both
amendments were adopted.
III. M. TAYLOR of New Mexico, agent Of
| the United States Bureau of Animal In
! dus,,x read a paper entitled Practical
Measures for the rrot-ut.en U, mango u..-
tie from Contaeiops Diseases" The paper
urgsd.the most stringent Quarantine reeu-
lations against States known to hafbor In
fected cattle and to generally increase the
scope Of powers of the Bureau of Animal
Industry.
Messrs. Brisbin of Idaho, Moore of
Colorado, Thornton of New Mexico,
Swan of Wyoming and Pryor of Texas
were appointed committee to confer with
representatives OF the American Hide and
Lesther Association On the subject of
branding cattle.
The special order, being the matter OF
recommending the appointment of a ma.
tional pleuro. pneumonia, commission was
then taken up.
Mr.. Rynerson & lew Mexico offered as
| substitute for the resolution requesting
the President to appoint a commission of
| five practical breeders resolution leaving
the matter in the hands of Congress with
out re- friction, and spoke at length on his
/ resolution.
| DR.. Salmon, of the Bureau OF Animal In
| dustry, spoke in defense of his bureau,
and in answer to the charges made against
| him.
After some further talk vote was taken
| on Rynerson's substitute, and it was
adopted without dissent. The third reso-
luton of the committee report, requesting
Congress to adopt measures providing for
the regu alton by quarantine of the splen-
etic or Spanish fever, was unanimously
passed amidst great applause.
| K. q. Head OF Colorado subu.itted pa
per upon the movement of cattle from the
South to the North. The paper was an
argument for national trail, figures be.
| ing introduced to show the liability oil
the only two available railroads to carry
the cattle, as at the lowest estimate
during the removal season, it would re.
quire 220 cars, equal to eleven trains oi
twenty cars each, daily, to transport the
cattle from one section to the ether. He
favored railroad shipment as the best, but
in view of the inadequate sfscilities and
the uncertainty of shipmessea at certain sea.
SONS, he urged the keeping open of the
trail.
On motion of Judge Hancock, the paper
was adopted as part of the report of the
Committee on Resolutions to be forwarded
to Congress.
w. B. Roberts, chairman of the com
mittee on branding, reported that there
was no other manner of satisfactorily
marking cattle than by branding the hides
but recommended, as a remedy for the
present evil, that the brands be made as
small as possible and applied to that part
of the animal where they would do the
least harm to the hide.
o. K. Lspham of Chicago, representing
the National Association of Tanners snd
Hide and Leather Dealers, commenced
reading memorial on the subject o!
branding, but the matter was deferred
and made the special order f6ri tomorrow
and the convention adjourned.