Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-04-05

RelnhOld Sadler,
Governor of the State of Nevad,
Carson City. New.
Sir:
Governor Budd has been informed that
you have protested to the Secretary of
Agriculture against his granting an
order permitting the shipment of Cali
fornia cattle into the State of Nevada to
be fed or pastured, claiming that they
were effected with %splenetic fever and
would contaminate the cattle in your
State. Governor Budd is convinced that
the cattle whose owners are now seeking
to have them admitted into the northern
part of this State and into Nevada and
adjoining territories, are in no wise af
tiicted with this disease, nor are they in
any wise liable to contaminate or infect
other herd Is with which they way be
mingled.
The present quarantine of California
was ordered upon the information that
the disease existed in some parts of the
State, and pending an investigation as to
the exact localities where it existed, a
line was placed very far north of the sus-
pected districts so as to be sure to in
clude all sections.
In view of the freedom of the cattle
now seeking admission into your State
from any disease whatever, and consid-
ering the extraordinary conditions which
now confront our Stock-breeders by
which the destruction of their property
is threatened through starvation, Gov
ernor Budd would be much pleased to
have you withdraw your protest, and if
possible, consent to an order by the Sec
rotary of Agriculture permitting the
shipment of our starving cattle into sec
tons of your State where they can be
fed or pastured.
Very Respectfully,
PETER J. SHIELDS,
Private Secretary.
He replied that there would be no
change and called Governor Budd's at
tention to the following:
Washington, April 4-Governor Sadler
This Department will issue no permits
allowing infected cattle 10 enter your
State. Dur inspectors report districts
free from Infection south of recent Cali
fOrnia quarantine line. Permits may he
granted from such uninfected distric.s
by our inspectors, but only after inspec-
ton INC other inspections TO guard
agains infection. Assure your cattlenen
that they will be fully protected.
Jas Wilson,
Coaratary of Apri.p1tura
The following was received from Elko:
Elko, Nevada, April lst., 1895.
Hon. REINHOLD SADLER, Governor,
Carson City, Nevada:-Dear Sir:-Al-
though this is the LIST, day of April, there
is a question confronting the people of
our State and you as their Governor
which is far rom an April-fool PROPOSE
ton. In accordance with a suggestion
made yesterday morning, a few gentle
men here who have the interests of their
J State deeply at heart, wired the follow
ing inquiry to the L. S. Sect'y. of Agri-
culture: HAS the department done any
thing respecting the shipment of cattle
from Cal, to Nevada? Car we do any
thing to prevent it? Answer quick" In
reply, these gentlemen received a mes
sage from Sec'v. Wilson as follows: "The
department will not permit the admis-
sion of cattle from the infected portions
of California, unless the Nevada author
tiles request such action" JAS. Wilson
Secretary.
: From the message as stated it would
} seem that but one question remains open
l for discussion, and that question is
I Has the raising of the quarantine line
established in Cal. and dividing the
I Northern from the Southern portion O
the State, and the subsequent shipments
1 of cattle from the South to the North, e.,
posed the entire State of California to the
) inroads of the disease and placed it il
t entirety under like conditions from
boundary to boundary, to sufficient eX
tent to warrant it's entire subsection /,
quarantine regulations?
In the opinion of the people of this sec
ton, and certainly of any reasonabl,
Il minded man, that question can be an
swered easily aud at once in the affirm
ative. The shipment of cattle from tn
infected districts North has most Ger
tainly exposed the cattle in the Northern
sections to the ravages of the disease
and it would be a queer construction t
place upon the affair to contend that cat
tie could be eventually landed in thi
State by the simple expedient of frs
- shipping them to Northern California
4 as that would avoid the effect of the law
OH T IAIH 4