The record-union., 1895-07-04

w WASHINGTON, July o.-COlOnel AOner
Taylor, ex-Member of Congress, and O
leading membe of the Farwell Chicago
Syndicate, which built the Texas State
Capitol and received in return several
million acres of State land, recently adj
dressed letter to Secretary Morton,
criticising his order for the admission of
Mexican cattle over the Texas border
without obstructive restrictions.
Secretary Morton has given out re-
ply in which he INDUCES in very sarcastic
comments upon Colonel Taylor and his
assistants. The salient portions OF Secre-
tary Morton's caustic letter are as fol-
lows:
''Hon. 4 A6ner Taylor, VeIasco. Ieras-
DEAR SIR: l am delighted with your
letter OF June 10Th, which you have
kindly forwarded to me, after having
published the same in several news
papers. l ain, however, surprised that q
successful statesman, SO distinguished
for modesty, SO bashful as to any appear
ance before the public, and of nature SO
tinctured with the timidity ofadOlescence,
should muster up etfrOntery sufficient to
depict his superior knowledge in the
public press over his own signature.
THE regulations of the Department of
Agriculture for the country were insti-
tuted so as to secure proper inspection Of
Mexican cattle coming into the United
States. These regulations guarded
against the introduction with those cattle
OF contagious disease. Your letter, how
ever, indicates that you have never read
the regulations, and you are entirely un-
acquainted with the reason for their in
stitution and their effect upon the cattle
industry Of this country. / therefore
take up your suggestions singly.
~ Ou say that not a pound of beef
from these Mexican cattle will ever be
consumed in this country and tine only
people benefited by this order are the
foreigners and the beef combine Do
on sale in nearly all retail grocery stores
in the cities of the Union. 1t is handled
In the villages, in the country stores, par
ticularly in mountain mining districts of
the frontier. 1t is consumed by the la
borer, by the mberman in camp, by
the miner in Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Idaho. It
is i'll the tent Of the tourist and hunter.
Is it possible that an Intelligent citizen
like yourself can be so ignorant?
"How can you assert that Mexican cattle
can be used only for canning, and not one
pound of Mexican beef will ever be con-
sumed in this country? How do you
know that the only persons benefited by
the order admitting healthy Mexican cat
tie under certain conditions are foreigners
and the beef com bine?
1.-THE United States Department of
Agriculture is informed by cattlenen of
the Southwest, and by two reliable agents
who have personally investigated the
situation in Texas. that cattle were very
scarce in large part of Texas, and that
there was an abundance OF grass in those
sections which could be utilized only by
the Importation of Mexican cattle.
You assert that feeders will not buy
the cattle. The only use than can be
made Of them is canning A table will
soon be completed by the Agricultural
Department which will show the number
Of Mexican cattle imported. The table
will show that nearly all the cattle i'm
ported up to date have been imported by
Texss ranchmen to restOck the Texas
ranches.
''Steamship companies are preparing
to take Mexican cattle directly from that
country to Europe The time is not far
distant probably, when the Mexican sur
plus OF cattle will be marketed in that
way, if they are not allowed to enter the
United States. 1t is an advantage
to our citizens to make q profit in
grazing these cattle, another profit in
shipping them aud a further profit in ex-
porting the meat. Or would you prefer,
as benefit to Americans, that they be
exported directly IN British ships from
Mexico to England?
''At the time the sanitary order was
made which you criticise prices of beef
had been advanced by stock men to an
excessive point all over the United States,
where they could, upon the plea that
there was great present and prospective
shortage OF beeves. AT the same time,
the price of cattle on the hoof was de-
pressed, with the explanation that small
receipts always cause dull market.
1.-The admission of Mexican cattle un-
der stringent sanitary regulations did
much to remove the prospective short
ages. 1t made it possible to restock the
vast ranches of Texas, which were bare of
cattle, but covered with nutritious grass.
Since that order prices of beef to the con-
sumers have been reduced. The price OF
live cattle is as high as can be expected at
this season of the year. Each citizen of
the United States has been benefited by
the order in the proportion of his con-
sumption of beet by the reduction of the
excessive price to which it had been. by
some mysterious power, arbitrarily
forced.
"Thanking you for having overcome
your innate diffidence sufficiently TO
have placed your structures upon the ad
ministration of the Department OF Agri-
culture In the press, and, hoping that
you will continue to evolve further
phenomena. l remain yours,
~. STERLING MORTON"
CHIEF OF THE WEATHER BUREAU.
Willis B. Moore to Succeed Professor
Harrington.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Willis B.
Moore, who will be the new Chief of the
Weather Bureau, is regarded as one OF
the best forecasters in the service, and
has reputation for accuracy second to
none in the department. After writing
one OF the best essays on practical fore
casting year ago, he was ordered to
Washington to make reports for month,
and received the highest percentage
among ten who were selected. his aver
age being almost 100. He was given the
position of Professor of Meteorology at q