Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-03-20
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'Oleander city" A vote Of thanks vas
rendered Galveston for her courtesy.
Major w. l.. Black, for the commit
tee, submitted a report on the subject Of
creating cattle exchange. The report
recommended the establishment Of a
bureau by the Government, which should
at all times be ready TO wire informa.
tion OF the condition Of the different cat.
markets. receipts, surplus or short
age, ETC., in ranch products Adopted.
Mr.. Rogers, OF Texas, utilized the oth-
crwisc unoccupied time OF the conyen.
tion with what he knew about cheese
making. lie said he operated the only
cheese factory in the state. and that the
article could be made with less cost here
than any whore else. lie predicted that
choese-making would bo a leading in
dustry.
Tho pleuro-pnoumonia and Texas
fever committee reported. The report
recited that pleuro-pnoumonia exists
only in two counties in New York and
one in New Jersey, and nowhere else in
the Union; also, that splenic fever does
not exist in Texas, and recommended
that the General Government have con-
troll Of the quarantine question In this
regard; also recommended that tho
Texas Legislature make provision for a
veterinary board. The recommendation
that the Secretary Of the Interior be re-
quested to stamp on plenro-pneumonia
in the three counties mentioned was
adopted. The resolution referring TO
the quarantine line was finally adopted.
The resolution referring to the creation
Of State veterinary surgeon with four
assistants wa next discussed. Mr..
Rogers stated that it was a fact that
Texas is the healthiest livestock State
in the Union, and that no disease exist
ed among the cattle Of the State, but
that conditions were rapidly changing,
and he urged the adoption OF the resolu-
tion. 1t was odopted unanimously.
The committee considering the COM
mission system reported, recommending
the adoption Of resolution. favoring a
revision of the system OF commission
charges, so as to make the rate a per-
centage of the price the animal brings,
instead of fifty cents per head, as at
present. The resolution was adopted.
transportation, reported, reciting that
more convenient and comfortable cars
were needed in the transportation Of
livestock, and asking that they be sup
piled. Adopted.
Colonel ]. 7. Breckenridge asked to
be allowed fifteen minutes in which to
speak on the subject OF refrigerators.
Being allowed the time asked for, he
read carefully-prepared address, in
which he advocated a cooperative sys-
tenn of refrigerators, in which every
farmer who owned milch COW should be
allowed to take stock, even II only TO
the amount of ten dollars. The address
was referred TO the committee on re-
frigcrators.
The report Of the committee on reso-
lutions recommended the adoption of
resolutions memorializing Congress to
pass law prohibiting combines, such
as the big Four" and a law giving the
States the right to pass inspection laws;
a law reducing the tax on oleomarga-
rine, and law providing for the free
and unlimited coinage OF silver favor
ing a reciprocity treaty with Mexico
and appropriations fer.leep-w&;e er .pnSts
at Galveston, Sabine Pass and Aransas
Pass, and memorializing Congress TO
make an appropriation TO pay Indian
claims. The report was
adopted.
Tho committee on refrigerators rec
the establishment Of refrig |
orators at Fort Worth, San Antonio,
Victoria, Dallas and Columbus, and |
storage houses at New Orleans. The |
report was adopted and the committee
continued to devise plans for the carry |
ing out Of the projects. Tho conven-
tion then adjourned.