Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-26
FOR STOCkMEN--FtDtRAL- NSpEC-
TON WILL HEREAFTER BE
SUFFICIENT.
NEW LAW Is NOW IN FORCE
National Livestock Association Success
fully Circumvents States Having
Objectionable Legislation.

dependent upon the southern ranges
their own ranges each season they have
succeeded in circumventing the obnox-
ious inspection laws or the states
through which they are compelled to
ship and which have in the past been
regarded as nothing less than legaliz-
ing blackmail for the benefit of state
inspectors. Particularly severe have
they been in their arraignment of the
Colorado law by which they have been
forced to submit to what they have
characterized as extortion and unneces-
sary delay and annoyan in getting
their animals north.
1t will be remembered that last year
test case was made by Colorado
stocknan, who refused to permit the
state inspectors to inspect a lot OF cat
tie he shipped north from Texas, claim
ing that the certificate of health he held
from the federal inspector who gave his
vie at the point of origin, was pass
port that gave him the right to ship
his cattle anywhere within the United
States without further local inspection
Upon his refusal to comply with the
law he was arrested and fined. In Or
der to have the constitutonality of the
Colorado inspection laws passed upon
by the highest court he declined to pay
the fine imposed and was imprl soned.
At the instance Of the Nation al Live
stock association the matter was taken
into the supreme court of the United
States, which upheld the law. The
association then brought its great
power and influence to bear in the
direction of the passage of a federal
inspection law regulating the ship
ments of livestock from one state into
another. In this it was successful and
the new law has been approved by the
president and is now in effect. Under
it the bureau of animal industry will
have entire charge of the inspection of
diseases. The full text of the law is
as follows:
''An act to enable the secretary of
agriculture to more efectually suppress
and prevent the spread of contagious
and infectious diseases of livestock and
Tor other purposes.
'Be it enacted by the senate ant
house of representatives of the United
States in congress assembled. That in
order fO n, = hla fha nf Srri-
culture to effectually suppress and ex-
tirpate contagious pleuro-pneumonia,
foot and mouth disease, and other dan
gerous contagious infections, and COM
livestock, and to prevent the spread of
such diseases, the powers conferred on
the secretary of the treasury by Sec
tions four and five of an act entitled
AN Act for the Establishment of a
Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent
the expectation of diseased cattle, and
to provide means for the suppression of
pleuro-pneumonia and other contag gious
diseases among domestic animals, ap-
proved May %, 1884, rs U. S. BY, are
hereby conferred on the secretary of
agriculture, to be exercised exclusively
by him. He is hereby authorized and
directed, from time to time, to estab-
lish such rules and regulations con-
corning the expectation and transuor-
tation of livestock from any place with
in the United States where he may
have reason to believe such diseases
may exist, into and through any state
or territory, including the Indian Ter
ritory, and into and through the Dis
trict of Columbia and to foreign coun-
tries, as he may deem necessary, and
all such rules and regulations shall
have the force of the law. Whenever
any inspector or assistant inspector of
the bureau of animal industry shall
issue certificate showing that such
officer had inspected any cattle or other
livestock which were about to be ship
ped, driven or transported from such
locality to another, as above stated,
and had found them free from Texas
or splenetic fever infection, pleuro-
pneumonia, foot and mouth disease. or
any other infectious, contagious or