The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-10
ARE IN CONFLICT
Livestock Sanitary Board and
Government Clash.
ONE CASE IN COURT
State Claims Government In
SpectiOn Was Faulty.

The Kansas State Live Stock Sanitary
Board and the Bureau of Animal Indus
try are at outs over the inspection of al
legged Texas fever infected cattle, and
serious trouble seems to be brewing
which Will likely end in the United
States courts.
held up through government interference
after they have been passed by the state
board. The latter asserts that it alone
has power to act in the state and that
its judgment whether cattle are infected
or not is final
Another case which is causing trouble
is where a shipper brought cattle into
the state with a government permit and
refused to allow state inspection. The
cattle developed fever, it is claimed, and
the live stock board have caused the
mans arrest and he is now pushing the
case through the courts.
The board held an informal meeting in
this city last night. F. H. Chamberlain,
the treasurer of the board, was absent,
but Taylor Riddle, the secretary, and NJ.
c. Campbell, president of the board, were
present and consulted regarding these
matters.
The state quarantine regulations went
into effect December 81, and no cattle are
allowed to come into the state from south
of the government quarantine line ex-
cept for immediate slaughter All cattle
coming from points north of the govern
ment Quarantine line and south of the
state line are allowed to come in when
the owner makes affidavit that they are
free from infection
The board last night had under consid-
GRAFTON two cases of direct violation of
the state laws and regulations governing
Texas fever. A cattle shipping firm
named Whitaker & Dees of Little Rock.
Arkansas, it is claimed. brought in a
bunch Of cattle in open defiance of the
state regulations. II is said that they
had a government permit and shipped the
cattle, which were stockers, to Oswego.
Inc cattle developed, it is asserted, Tex
as fever. The men were arrested by or
der Of the state board and the former
are now fighting the case through the
courts. How the matter will end is IN
known. but the state board will probably
carry the case up should it be decided
against them
A bunch Of fever-fnfected cattle was
Drought into Parsons on the last day of
the open season and have developed
ticks. 1t is thought the owner was hon
est in his belief that the cattle were not
infected and they will probably only be
heid until they are free from the disease
The beard viii probably visit both places
to decide what steps are necessary 10
tal-e
through government interference. the
po2rd says, one shipment of cattle AT
Junction City and one at Winfield have
been held up on suspicion of having Tex
as fever The shipments were inspected
'by the state board and passed The
beard VIII go TO Junction City today and
order the release of the cattle at that
point They claim there is no infection
Whatever. Mr.. Chamberlain, who was
uhable to be here last evening. will %
70 winfield today to investigate the case
tnere and to order the release of the cat-
tie. should he so decide.
The state board is much inoersod 81
what it terms the unwarranted inferior
ence Of the government insnac+ors ~ a.
inspection of suspected cases of tick-in-
rested cattle. Mr.. Riddle, in speaking of
the matter last night. said:
For the past thirty wears an =, 1.s+
year this state has lost from $4,000 to
soo'u0 worth of cattle every wear
through Texas fever. We always de-
pended on the government to great ex-
tent for protection and as a result the
state was full Of Texas fever every, YEAR
Last year we took charge of things.
and there was not a single head of cat
tie IN the state lost from fever. For
once the state was clean Of the disease
Inc government inspectors want to be
the whole thing. They are usurping DOW
ers to which they have no right. The
government has no right to hold I'D cat
lie which we pass. In the state we ara
supreme authority. The law creating
the national board stated that It was to
Cooperate with the boards in states.
where perfect systems for the protection
Of the cattle industry are in vogue as
there is IN this state
1--WE intend to continue to assert our
authority, and the Bureau Of Animal In
oustry and its inspectors must keep its
fully and intend that our decisions shall
stand without outside interference. The
government can and should look after
its quarantine line, while we will take
care of the state
I'VE are q distinct body. We never sur
rndered any Of our powers and they have
no power to act in this state except in
direct defiance of the powers Of our
board. We have protected the state prop
erly and better than the government
ever has, as is borne out by a comparison
OF the numbers of cases Of fever in the
state last year and any previous year"
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