Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-12
OBJECT TO MARKET REPORTS.
Stock Shippers Hold Rampant
Session at South Omaha.
FARMERS FIND OUT PRICES.
Country Buyers Would Keep the Man
VINO Raises the Product i'm
Ignorance Of Its Value by
Supprcssing the Press.
Live Stock Shippers Meeting.


The Live Stock Shippers association met
at South Omaha yesterday, and transacted a
certain amount of business that was no doubt
satisfactory to themselves, but which would
be decidedly otherwise to the farmers and
commission men Of the state. s.Among those
present were President j. A. Kehoe of
Platte Center, and Vice President f.. D..
Martin, James Danly and ID. Anderson.
Secretary Virgins was also on hand, along
with Treasurer J. G.. Smith The other mem
bers present were, A. J. Vail, j. w. Stocker,
John Lempke, b. King, J. w. Lynch, j. G..
Hall and A. G.. Nirgen. Routine business
was quickly disposed of, and then they set
tied down to what affected them the most
They had asked for free passes to
and from the convention, and the
Union Pacific had offered them a
rate at a fare and a third, which was de-
clined with thanks on the motion of ID. An
dersOn, of South Omaha. Then an attempt
was made to prevent the commission houses
from sending ont agents to divert trade to
South Omaha, and a resolution was put by j.
W. Stoclier, of Iowa, to the following effect:
Whereas, There arc certain commission
firms at these yards who are buying stock at
the different stations in the country, through
men employed by them who have neither
money nor local circuit, III COlllptJlllOU WIFI
regular shippers. Now, therefore, bet it
Resolved, BY the members of this associa-
tion, that we discountenance this practice,
and will withhold shipments from such firms
ana discourage other shippers from patroniz-
ing them.
Vice President Martin favored the resolu-
tion, and in addition only wanted one stock
report to be regarded as official, instead of
having all the Omaha dailes sending out
price lists.
james Danley, of Ashland, was of the same
opinion, and objected to the Omaha dailies
getting market reports. He went further;
he objected to the South Omaha commission
men sending out the local papers containing
live stock reports to the farmers of The state,
aud advocated that in future the meetings of
the association be considered us being cXccu-
tive, and from which all reporters be ex-
cluded.
Secretary Virgins was in favor of every
thing spoken about except that regarding the
newspapers, and he wanted them to send
abroad all and every information they could
obtain about the markets
Vice President Martin said if they could
prevent the sending out of the local stock
papers and withhold the market reports
from the Omaha dailes, not one farmer in
500 would take Il paper.
/ a. j. Bennett, of Vail. protested against
all these restrictions against the daily papers.
He got most OF his information from the
Omaha dailies because they reached HIM
twenty-four hours ahead of the stock papers.
He wanted them all to publish all the infor
nation they could get on the market.
j. G.. Hall, of GiDbOn, objected to all at
tcmpts to keep the farmers i'll the dark as to
quotations, because he preferred dealing
with a man who was posted rather than with
a man that was not.
President Kehoc was glad he was present,
because he had learned something from
the gentleman who came from Iowa. He
would favor the appointing of a committee
to draft a resolution providing for the asso-
citation meeting the next time (October) in
executive session, from which all news
paper men would be excluded. He thought
at present commission men had the local
shippers by the throat and the time had
come for the shippers to do some active
work If the commission men would not
desist from sending out ''drummers" he
thought they ought to establish live stock
commission firm of their own and consign all
their stock to them.
j. w Stocker was not in favor of appoint
ing any one firm to act for them and thought
the commission men should be notified that
if they persisted in the practice the associa-
tiOn would appoint representatives OF their
own.
Another member then suggested that the
best way TO prevent this would be TO appoint
a "spotter' to keep track of the firms sending
out agents. This would enable the members
to keep clear of the firms so transgressing,
Second Wee President Dandy moved that
acommission firm be established within thirty
days, but no one seconded 1t.
| On motion the secretary was instructed to
notify members to be present at the October
session, as the question of erecting render
ing establishment of their own would be dis
cusscd. The impression seemed to be that
the shippers were not getting full value for
their dead hogs, and they could do better if
| they rendered them themselves. Complaints
were made that too much dockage was
charged for piggy sows and stags and after
roasting the railroads 1t was suggested they
would have u full attendance if free passes
were granted the members. ..
Then they adjourned.