The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-07

menace enough in it to the revenues of
railway companies to induce a restora-
ton of the old rate. He roasted the
roads roundly for their pooling procllv-
tiles against the public good, n he
wandered off on protection, political
pulls, national and local, until he sue
ceeded in stirring things up. In speak
ing of securing proper laws favorable
to the interests of members of the as
ISOLATION, the speaker insinuated that
little could be expected from legisla-
lures when every member held a 0asS
over the local lines; and he charged
that members of the city council were
similarly favored. He asked to be cor
rected if he was laboring under a mis-
apprehension. MI. Crane wanted the
resolution on the hot-stuff order, and
desired members to go on record with
the threat that they would pat-
ronize lines that handle their
business on the feed-in-transit tariff.
e. H.. Callister felt that his feet had
been stepped on by the previous
speaker, when he walked round city
fathers in his talk, and in his criticism
of the legislature, in which assembly
the gentleman had done some labor for
the county bill, unsuccessfully. He de-
clared that he doesn't use free trans
pcrtatiOn furnished by the street car
companies and he didn't believe the
possession of passes on the railways af-
fectel1 members of the legislature in
their voting. Mr.. Callister thought it
was a very good legislature, this last
one, but it was Democratic in politics,
and as nearly all sheepmen are Re-
p~ublicans, the legislature was against
sheep measures, as the principles of the
party are against the best interests of
the country.
A FOR LOCAL, ROADS
J. c.. Leary of the Union Stockyards
spoke for the resolution, but urged a
change Of the wording in view of the
fact that the Oregon Short Line and
Rio Grande Western lines had always
favored granting the feed-in-transit
privilege to western shippers.
T. P. johnson of the Denver Daily
Stockman also urged it's adoption Mr..
Johnson pointed out the advantage the
privilege carried to Utah shippers, n
he also indicated the probable effect
on railway lines the adoption of such
resolutions by so powerful an associa-
ton would have.
Heber Bennion and J.. G.. Mackey re-
piled to the political references made
by Messrs. Callister and Crane, and
when these gentlemen had entered their
protests, the resolution was amended
on motion of Mr.. Crane and unanimous
ly passed. t..o
Mr.. Cranes amendment pledged the
members of the Utah Woolgrowers'
association to the patronage of such line
or lines of railway in the l. lrketing Of
their products as granted a continuance
of the feeding-in-transit privilege.
The resolution c~ondemning the ces-
sion of the arid lands to the several
states by the general government was
opposed by Representative Bennion.
but favored by several other speakers.
among whom were Henry Harker and
Chairman Smith. 1t carried.
The odious So terminal charge collect
| ed from shippers Ut Chicago was unan-
imously denounced in a resolution in
troduced for hat purpose, and for a
time it looked as though big-hearted
Jim Harris was going to offer to pay it
himself. Jim was there listening and
he felt like it, but be did not have the
money in his clothes. His people re-
ceive and collect on 250, 600 cars an
nually. and while genial j. l.. goes
around pretty we'll hooked up he
couldn't, as plain general livestock
agent of the Chicago Union S~tockyard
& Terminal company, make a sudden
dig of a half a. million dimensions.
Upon the adoption of the resolutions
addresses were made by agents of the
association, and some further routine
work was transacted, and after an
nouncement by the president that the
Utah Livestock association would meet
at the same place at 2 p. m. tomorrow,
the association adjourned.