The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-17
National Live Stock Convention
Adopts Strong Resolution at
kansas City.
TO CONDUCT SYSTEMATIC VAR.
All of the Old Officers Are Re
elected and Association Al
journs-Next Meeting in
Portland, Ore.

Kansas City. Mo-. Jan. 1S.-The sixth an
nual convention Of the National Live Stock
Association adjourned at 5 o'clock to-day 70
meet next year at Portland, Ore. after
electing all the old officers for the ensuing
year and taking the initiative in q syste-
matte campaign of legislation against the
proposed packing-house merger.
William NJ. Springer, general counsel OF
the association, in a spirited address, cut
lined a bill which he had formulated ito
protect trade and against un-
lawful restraints and mmopolies," and
which he said was merely al adaptation of
the Sherman antitrust law and the Hoar
bill now pending in the Senat.
In the discussion that followed President
John W. Springer said that abil along the
lines suggested by Judge Srinser would
be printed within a week by tie association
and sent to every legislature in the land.
In further discussing the subject, President
Springer said that il the proposed merger
were contaminated the National Live Stock
Association would string packin&houses
from Chicago to San Francisco. In response
to an appeal from the Executive Cvmmit-
tee for a legislative working fund. $40 was
subscribed in less than thirty minute,
PACKING-HOUSE MERGER.
A resolution introduced by Franz M.
Stewart Of South Dakota, protesting agaust
the packing merger, was adopted. 1t s&ys!
While we fully appreciate the natural
desire Of the men who have risked such
enormous capital in the building up Of the
packing industries to protect that capital
from ungoverned and unreasonable compe-
tion which might prove disastrous to all
yet we believe that the plan proposed VIII
leal to the more-feared danger Of uncon-
trolled greed and avarice. and, as the pro-
ducers of the raw material, we must nat
urally protest against the unreasonable tax
that will be necessarily placed on our labor
and Investment through the adoption OF
During an address at the afternoon SEES
SION Jerry Simpson favored tariff reform.
and said that the enactment of the tari6
law. by erman wa q dssc-.nination
against American products and should
teach us how our present tariff system dis
s ss1mlna OF isos against mem,. other 81 nc SeT THads He He
ers' Association present II 1t were not q
iact that wool was worth as much In Lon
ator Warren Of Wyoming, replying to the
question, said that any one who knew Of
tne question knew that such was not the
ensued.
MEAT TARIFFS.
Herbert s. Hadley Of Kansas City, In an
address. said that the removal of the tari0
sested by the National Butchers. Hs,ocis-
ton, would please the packers, but would
work. great injury to American farmers
President Roosevelt stands out a. the
best type of the American stock" and sua-
gested that Colorado could not have 4 hat
ter representative in the United States SEN
ate than President John W. Springer. sen
timents that aroused the delegates to treat
enthusiasm.
The selection Of a place for the next CON-
vention was disposed Of quickly. Earlier in
the week there were ten cities In the race.
so thoroughly had c. J. Milliss who Ind
Of Portland. that there remained but ono
Detroit. when the matter came
to a vote to-day.
Tonight the delegates were entertained
at an elaborate smoker at Convention Hail
the chief attraction at which was the Meg
aphone Minstrels, an aggregation of 10
by st. Clair Hurd. q weli-knoWn
Tomorrow 200 or more of the deie9ates
will start for Memphis and New Orleans
on a special train over the Frisco, where
they will be the guests OF those cities.