The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-07
SToCKMEN'S GREETING
TO ROOSEVELT

| Chicago, Ills. Dec 4.-The fifth day OF
! the International Livestock exposition
attracted the greatest crowd ever assem-
bled at the Chicago stock yards, the
! pavilions, pens and yards being crowded
| almost to their capacity. Governor
| Toole of Montana was among the spec
tators. {
The fat Hereford steer Woods Prin-
cipal, to which the championship of the
show was awarded yesterday. was sold
today to A. G.. Swenson of New York
for 80 cents a yound.
The combination sale of Aberdeen-An-
gus breeding stock in the main pavilion
this afternoon was most successful.
Ninety-seven cattle sold at an average
of 1914 per head.
The convention today adopted resolu-
tiOns vOicing their satisfaction in the
fact that a man who understands the
cattle interests sits in the president s
chair at Washington. The resolutions are
as follows:
Whereas. The inscrutable will of the
Divine Ruler of nations has seen fit to
take from us the beloved and deeply la
mented president William Mckinley and
Roosevelt, who has taken the reins Of
government with firm hand and has
in his first public message TO congress
displayed a keen insight into the needs
tones the demands of the people for
progress in the right direction. therefore
be it
Resolved That we send greeting to
President Roosevelt, assuring him of the
loyalty and support of the stockmen of
the country in all his undertakings for
the good of the people. We recognize in
our new chief executive one who is ia
miliar with he industry we represent.
who has welded a lariet0 and branding
iron and knows personally of the joys,
the hardships and the fatigues of life on
the ranch and range. The cowboy on
all feel that in President Roosevelt the
nation has a Loyal, honest and fearless
ruler and the livestock industry has a
friend at court in the person of one who
knows the needs and necessities of that
industry"
F. G. Hagenbarth of Idaho read a pa
per on the "Adulteration of Wool" and
said that such adulteration deprived the
wool-groWer of a much enlarged mar
ket and was therefore a material injury
to his interests. He urged the passa ge
by congress of a bill providing for the
inspection Of woolen goods and shoddy
and the proper stamping of the same a
fine of from $50 to $500 to be imposed
for each violation of the law by a manu-
facturer and from 800 to S1.O0O for a
dealer who buys and sells unstamped
adulterated cloth.
Clifford Pinchot. government forester.
spoke of THE Grazing Problem in the
Forest Reserves He said there were
certain places where the interests harm
fully affected by grazing in the forest
reserves were so Overwhelmingly great
that grazing was out of the question
among others the Bull Run forest re-
serves in Oregon and the reserves in
southern California, but there was vast
region in which nothing but reasonable
regulation was acquired to meet the
grazing business and to demonstrate that
1t might always, as it always should. be
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interest in the community
Sterling Morton, eX-secretary of agri-
culture. read paper entitled The In
consistency of the Grout Bill which
oleomargarine.
Professor Frederick V. Corville, botan-
ist of the department of agriculture,
spoke on Poisonous Plants on the
Resolutions were then presented to the
convention and adopted as follows:
That Arizona. and New Mexico be ad-
mitted to statehood.
That duties on hides be retained so
long as the man who manufactures them
into different articles is protected by the
tariff
That by the treaty between this coun-
try and Germany the latter country re-
move the ban on American meats and
that if the German government will ap-
point inspectors to send to this country,
the National Livestock association will
viding that meats bearing the stamps
of the inspectors be received into Ger
many withou: protest.
That an interstate law for the prose-
cution of horse thieves and cattle rust
lers be enacted.
That the president appoint a commits
sion to visit England and work against
the discrimination which Canadian cat
tlemen seek for themselves
That buzzards be exterminated.
That the efforts of the bureau of ami
NAL industry. in seeking knowledge of
bovine tuberculosis and to prevent the
disease from spreading be endorsed.
The only discussion over the resolu-
tions was precipitated by the death SEN
tence asked to be passed on buzzards.
The discussion was brief, however, and
the assertion that the determination of
the carrion bird was a move in the di-
rection of scientific advancement, re-
suited in the passage of the resolution.
AT 1 p. m. a recess until tomorrow
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