, 1886-04-08
SINE DIE.
The Stock Growers Convention
Concludes Its Labors.
Election Of 0ficers and Other I'm
portant Proceedings.

The annual convention of the Wyom-
ing Stock Growers Association reassem-
bled at Library Hall at 10 o'clock yestcr-
day morning, J. NJ. Carey, president. in
the chair, The first business which occu-
pied the attention of the convention was
the one regarding the relief from the pay
ment of assessments of the members of
the Nebraska Stock Association who are
also members Of our home association.
This committee appointed the evening be-
fore to confer with the Nebraska cattle
men reported in favor of the relief de-
manded, with the understanding that the
Wyoming Stock Growers Association is
to be relieved of all inspection work
which has heretofore been done in the in
terests of the Nebraska members. and
that both associations are in the future to
protect each Others interests as far as
possible and practicable. After consider.
able discussion the proposition and report
of the committee was adopted.
Later in the day. having been asked to
explain by Judge Carey, ]. A McShane,
of Omaha, stated this action did not
mean, and was not in any sense intended
as a withdrawal of the Nebraska cattle
men from the Wyoming association.
Hon. Thomas Sturgis. secretary of the
association, during the forenoon an
nounced hat the new certificates were
ready and asked that the members of the
convention come forward and sign them
as soon as convenient. The request was
quite generally complied with.
Next came a rehearing on the question
Of smalgamation with the international
Range Association. The question had
been virtually settled the day before, the
committee appointed for that purpose
having been instructed by a vote of the
convention to draft a resolution declining
e. invitation. This committee was asked
yesterday to present this resolution, and
having done so, the question Of uniting
with the international was again revived
on a motion to adopt the resolution. Con-
siderable discussion again ensued aud at
length DR.. D. Fl. Moore, of Denver,
came forward and spoke at length and
very ~eloquently in opposition to the adop-
ton of the resolution. The doctor spoke
very forcibly and appeared to be very
much Interested in the matter. He con-
tended that the International Range As
ISOLATION originated with the Wyoming
men, and that the articles of incorpora-
ton, ETC., were drafted by Wyomingites.
If there were any brains in the compost
ton and makeup Of the affair, they were
Wyoming brains. He was aware that
there were two objections to the range
association, and one was that it was not a
home institution. and the other was the
question of paying an assessment. When
the subject OF the International Range
Association was first preached to him he
didn't know what to say. He was like
the fellow who visited the Mammoth cave
in Kentucky for the first time. When he
got there he found that other visitors who
had preceded him had inscribed certain
things on the walls Of the cave. Some
had written a little poetry, and feeling
very much inspired the fellow concluded
he would do the same thing. He started
in and wrote:
Mammoth cave. oh. thou great wonder"
and got no farther, as he couldn't think
of anything that would '.jibe' with it
Finally he tried it again, and once more
he wrote:
Mammoth cave. oh. thou great wonder"
but the would-be poet could not make it
on the second attempt. He tried it the
third time and wrote:
Mammoth cave. oh, thou great wonder"
and bracing himself for a final determined
effort finished with:
Gen. Jackson. HI. by thunder"
The speaker said he felt about the same
way that fellow did when the range asso-
citation was first preached to him, but
now he felt differently about it, and he
thought if the association had a past it
would be a good thing for him to write a
poem on the international Range Asso-
citation. DR.. Moore argued long and
ably in support of the plan of joining the
International Association. but in the end
the resolution was adopted which settled
the matter adversely for what he had
been ~contending.
The report of the round up committee
was called up again, and several slight
changes made prior to its final adoption.
In the afternoon session Judge Carey
arose and proceeded to say that Mr.. D
Sheedy, having gone out of the stock
business, had resigned as a member of
the association, aud having labored long
and earnestly in the interests of the asso-
citation, he thought that a vote of thanks
ought to be extended to Mr.. Sheedy. Tho
vote Of thanks Wa accordingly extended,
amid thunders of applause. Mr.. Sheedy
responded in a neat and appropriate
manner after which he was unanimously
elected an honorary member of the asso.
citation.
Prior to this point in the afternoons