The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-08-18
THAT QUARANTINE.
Col. McCullOch Returns From
Wyoming.
His Official Report to the
Governor.
The Quarantine Partially Modified.

FdHS Win WI lJr w W. OentTy 10 consul
With the governor OF that Territory con
corning the cattle quarantine. FolIowtn,
is Col. McCulloch's r-porr, now mad
public, and the governors reDly:
STATE OF MISSOURI,
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF LANDS,
CITY OF JEFFERSON, August Z, 1885.
Hon John 5. Warmaduke, Governor o
Missouri, Jefferson City:
SIR-In compliance with your request.
left Jefferson City the 80 h, ultino, fol
Wyoming, to consul. with the governor OF
that territory in reg 'rd to the pleuro-pne
morla, and TO request him T. revoke his
proclamation quarrantining against Mis-.
souri, cattle on account of the suppos
existence OF the cattle plague in this
state.
! AT sEDALIA
| was joined BY Major VIM. Gently, who
accomp ,niei NE to Cheyenne and reader, d
NE vslu bile as istsnCe, with the officers OF
the terri Ory, In my efforts to get the quar-
raItine against Mis- ouri cate raised.
Ga my arrival at Chey tnne learned thai
the governor was absent, and | could do
nothing until his return, the 3rd, int.
Immediately On his return / was given
an int view with the governor, when IN
formed him fully as 10 the obj,c: of my
mission.
He replied hat in matters Of this kind
ne was governed, 10 a great degr,e, by the
Wi hes and opinions OF the
WYOMING LIVE STICK ASSOCIATION
and that he would iii meeting of the
officers OF that association ard give me an
opportunity TO present what / had to sy
In behalf or the state OF Missouri, why the
quarantine agairs: her cattle should be
raisei.
The officers Of this association were con-
vened, and | was invited TO appear before
them and make my statement why the
quar- milne proclamation against Missouri
cattle should be revoked,
proceeded 10 do so, and gave them
pliin history OF the suppo sed origin of
TIE DISEASE OF GALLOWAY COUNTY;
the prompt manner in which il was taken
hold OF and thrott!ed, and the means en-
ployed 10 stamp out the disease, il il was
soon discovered that
the greatest objection to raising the au lran-
tine, and one which was strongly urged. !
was this That the state of Missouri had
islled 10 quarantine against states infected |
laws on this question; AMI, fur |
ther, that no sanitary C mini sion bad been |
established bv the state, ard that without |
these auxiliaries 10 aid in protecting and |
pres rvipg the health of the Cattl-, IL would /
lie imposs bls to prevent the spread Of |
pleuro-pneumoCia and its bTeikIng out
again IN the infected di tric.s.
/ answered these objections by CLING
he attention OF the committee 10 the fact
hat
NO LAW WAS NEEDED
" necessary; that the citizens in and
ground Fulton, where The dis ase was said
o have made its appearance, BIZ common
Onsent were willing and anxious 10 have
he disease stamped out, at any cost or
acritice, ard that the G vernon of Missouri
Tas Of the opinion, and the result has
roved ne was correct, that by prompt ac-
ion on the part OF the citiz rs the disease ,
ould De stamped out in q much shorter
me than il would take TO convene the
egislaiure. Priva'e subscriptions were
lAde efficient 10 pay for ali cattle slapgh-
cred, aud there yet re nj 'ined, so / was iu-
)rmef, somei hing near one thousand dol
IFS. tO De used In case OF necessitv.
Ibis stst-ment Of fac's to the officers
lie association appeared u have a very
lvCrs bic effect. / will state here that
THE CATTLE INTERESTS OF WYOMING
greater than all others combin. d, and G
Ia: sm not at all surprised to find the [
opie engaged in this Kind of irdus'ry
i've 10 anything in the form of di ease
ID ling the greatest care and diligence
prevent lis spread among their vast {
erfls. They are peculiarly situated. Their
title run on the range, and If any contag
Us disease should appear among their cat n
2 IT would be almost beyond human power
check il except by the destruction of o
cir entire herbs. So that after free ex- c
rnse Of opini rs with the officers of the d
Wyoming Live Stock Association" and "
= territorial ve;er nsry surgeo on, DR.. Hop ST
=, was not astonished that the COVER q
II of the territory, at their rsqsest, had 7,
.arantiued .sinst Missouri cattle. The 10
had collected numb of F
SENSATIONAL ARTICLES =,
I'm the newspapers of Missouri, that had ST
en written on the subject of the disease T.
Galloway county ell Of which / was called Z
TO explain. al
But sf;er this inference with the execu-
Re Committee OF the Wyoming Live q
ock As ocisti1n" thy sgreei to recon- az
md 10 the governor that the quarantine al
ainst the state of Missouri be raised, vi
tn the exception OF the following coun as
$, viz: Galloway Boone, Audraiu, Mont
merry, Usage AID Cole. be
will further state In this connection Fl
1t the governor of Wyoming informed ar
, that he heartily endorsed the recon- is,
,ndation of the executive committee, and in
1t he would notify you by letter of his NJ
ION thereon. tir
In closing this report wish to return BI
: thanks TO the governor and secretary OR
Wyoming, the executive committee of III
|. Wyoming Live Stock Association and bu
!. ID. Hopkins, veterinary surgeon, for on
courteous manner in which I was treat fri
while in Cheyenne. me
also desire 10 thank Won sincerely for tn;