The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-19
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS
Another State Board Accused on
CrOOkedness.
The State Live Stock Commits
sion This Time.
PROVIDES TWO PLACES
For Friends of Members of the
Board.
They Trod on the Toes Of the
sslksmen
They Trod on the Toes Of the
WHOKICKVIGOROUSLY
Made to Pay for an Inspection
of Cattle
Said to Be Both Costly and
Unnecessary.

The members of the Kansas Live
Stock Sanitary commission are today try
ing to explain to Governor Morrill, why
they appointed two state live stock in
spectors for which there was no use.
Early in April last meeting of the
live stock board was held in Kansas
City, Mo-, to consider the
quarantine inspection laws At
this meeting a majority of the
members of the board, J. W. Moore of
Marion, one of the Republican mem bers,
and Mr.. Brown of Delphos, Ottawa, the
Populist member, advocated the appoint
ment of two state inspectors. to be paid
in fees for their services, and the fee was
fixed at two cents a head OF the cattle in
spected.
Chairman Johnson the other Republi-
can member who lives down in Green
wood county, the center OF the Kansas
cattle district was opposed to the appoint
ment of these inspectors but be was out
voted and the inspectors were appointed.
Both of the members advocating the
inspection had man for inspector. Mr.
Moore selected Dr. Freeland, livery sta
BILE keeper at Marion, aud MIR. Brown Sc
lected DR.. Pritchard, who was state veteri-
nary surgeon under the Lewelling ad-
ministratiOn.
One inspector was at once sent to AL
buquerque, n. NJ, to inspect the cattle
shipped into Kansas from that direction,
and the other was sent into the Indian
Territory to inspect the cattle coming
into Kansas from the south.
A live stock man who says he is
familiar with this business says there
was no sense in sending an inspector to
Albuquerque, as no cattle infected with
Texas fever ever come in from that direc-
tion, yet the inspector stationed him
self there and made the cattle men
put up cents a head for all their cattle
before he would give them an inspec-
tors pass to send their cattle through
Kansas to market This live stock man
says the inspector who went into the In
dian territory did a still greater
feat. He says it is physical
impossibility for one man to inspect
all the cattle coming into Kansas
over all the railroads from the south and
heretofore cattle for the Kansas market
have been passed on the inspection GER
tificate OF United States Inspector Jordan
a civil service employee who has been
the government inspector on the Texas
frontier for years.
Inspector Jordan is familiar with the
range of every known cattle brand in the
cattle country, and when cattle are ready
for shipment he gives them a passport
according to their brands
If a brand is submitted to him from
an infected district, the cattle are not
passed, and if an unknown brand il sub
mitted, which is seldom the case, he goes
personally and inspects the cattle
Inspector Jordan is paid a salary by
the United States and he has never
charged the cattle men anything for Civ
ing them passports for their cattle
through Kansas.
g. The Kansas inspector who was sent
Into this territory, it is charged, simply
took Inspector Jordan's inspection cards
Of cattle for Kansas markets and then
collected the two cent fee for himself.
About $4,000 head of cattle have been
shipped into the state from the territory.
and the same number from Albuqueroue
since these inspectors were appointed
and they have accordingly received
about 1000 each from the cattle men
SOr their services
The cattle men were afraid to make
any objection to this procedure while
they were marketing their cattle
for fear of an ebsolue quarantine.
but now that the market
season is sb0H45oGfgyeOS o. the cattlemen of
Lyon cou1tie Voodsc scomnIeinG Gn+Ie IueIeF ana ana
governor about y : procedure
The governor and the members of the
live stock board have held two
conferences and they have not vet
settled the matter and today thu assist
ant attorney general was called on to ad-
wise in the matter.