St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-26
THE CATTLE CONVENTION.
Report of the Committee Concerning
the q quarantine REGULATIONS.


the Quarantine Regulations.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28.-The National Cat
tie and Horse Growers convention resumed
its session this morning with Gen. Brisben
in the chair. The committee on resolutions
reported as follows:
Be it resolved, That the United States con-
gress be respectfully petitioned to enact
law by which setting fire to the range and
timber on the public domain of the United
States or in the Indian country, shall be pun
ished by q fine and imprisonment.
Be it resolved, That this convention is in
favor OF the adoption of law that shall pro-
vide for the appointment by the president OF
the United States of commission or hve meu
who shall be charged with the duty of sup
pressing and extrpating the contagion Of
pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, and who
shall be authorized, for that purpose,
to quarantine one portion or the country
against the shipment of live stock
from another whore the disease exists,
to employ assistance, including the best vet
Urinary skill to be found, and to make all
necessary rules and regulations for enforcing
the duties with which they are charged, the
member of said commission to be familiar
with the matter or breeding and handling live
STOCK and men Of good executive ability; the
members of the commission to be paid
salary commensurate 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 be authorized to pay for the
same from an appropriation made for the
purpose of enforcing the law
Whereas, 1t is an accepted fact that the
passage Of apparently healthy cattle from the
coast country and lowlands communicates
disease call splentii OR Spanish fever to cat
tie of q higher altitude. Another fact in
connection with this disease is that cattle
from low attitudes after having been kept for
a limited time in higher attitudes do not COM
municate this disease and this infection has
proven very disastrous to herds of cattle in
these more elevated regions, and has created
such apprehensions in these sections that
quarantine and other restrictive regulations
have been adopted in several of the Western
states and territories prohibiting the passage
OF cattle to their accustomed markets, and
these regulations are not uniform in some OF
the states and territories, and they are vir-
tually an Introduction upon interstate COM
merce; and in others onerouS taxes are i'm
posed: therefore, be it
Resolved, That your committee are of the
opinion that these conflicting regulations
(sOme of them arbitrary and difficult. If not
impracticable. to be complied witty will, it
persisted in, prove disastrous to the cattle
interests of the entire country, and will
greatly diminish the value of cattle in certain
localities, and augment them in others; by
disturbing the natural laws of trade and OBJ
structing the avenues, monopolies are built
up at the expense OF the consumer. In view
OF these facts. your committee would most
respectfully recommend that this convention
request congress to pass such laws as will
place the whole subject matter under the
control and jurisdiction of the general gov
eminent, giving authority to establish quar-
antine regulations within proper boundaries
and limits, and to set apart from the lands
belonging to the United States such quaran-
tine grounds as shall be ample protection
and best promote and subserve the cattle in
terests of the entire country.
The report provoked an animated and
prolonged discussion. particularly that part
referring to pleuro- pneumonia, and it was
finally laid over till tomorrow.