The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-20

provided for by the Kansas law. but
which limits the prices and fees
charged.
The Kansas City stock yards COM
pany is a, Missouri corporation, doing
business in Missouri and in Kansas.
To Agree With Missouri.
Senator Tucker introduced a con-
current senate resolution at the same
time that Senator Hayden's bill was
introduced providing that two mem
bers of the senate and three members
of the house be named to meet a sim
liar committee from the Missouri leg
islature to hold a conference regard
ing weighing charges at the Kansas
City stock yards.
The resolution is as follows: -.
BE it resolved by the senate, the
house of representatives concurring
therein, that
''Wh ereas, The many attempts made
by the state OF Kansas to regulate the
stock yards charges of the public
stock yards have proven wholly inef-
fective, by reason of the fact that the
Kansas City Stock Yards company
owning lands in both Kansas and Mis-
souri, is able to remove its business
from one state to the other at will,
thus evadtng the Kansas laws, and.
Whereas, Such attempted reguia-
ton upon the part of the state of
Kansas has subjected Kansas shippers
to great inconvenience and positive
loss without reducing charges, and,
Whereas, The only possible and
practicable regulation of this mon
opoly Is by the joint and united action
be it
RESOLVED. That the president of the
senate be directed to appoint two sena-
tors, and the speaker of the house,
three members of the house. to not as
a committee to meet with a similar
ture, and that the Missouri legislature
be invited to appoint q similar commit
tee, and that the two committees meet
in Kansas City, No, uDon suitable no
tice, for the purpose of preparing a
StockyardS bill to be introduced in both
the Missouri and Kansas legislatures,
to the end that we may secure legisIa-
ton that cannot be evaded and that
may be enforced.
THAT the president of the senate and
speaker of the house respectively, cause
to be transmitted under their hands,
attested by the secretary of the senate
OF this resolution to both branches of
the Missouri legislature, to await its
action thereon"
Different interests have different
views of stoclSyards legislation" said
Senator Tucker. THE Kansas stock
yards interests do not want a lower
weighing fee than Missouri has. The
stock raisers desire the advantage of a
low rate. If the Missouri legislature
viii make a law regulating fees to be
charged all will be well. If the Mis-
souri, legislature will not, then some
means must be found for protecting
Kansas interests
Senator fuckers resolution, If car
ried into effect by itself, would do no
harm but would probably be Of benefit
to Kansas stock raisers but If the reso-
luton is adopted and the stockyards
bill is passed the loophole is left for
the wiping out Of stockyards legisla-
ton.
Senator Haskell, who has shipped
cattle to the Kansas City stockyards
for Is years, is in favor of the resolu-
ton and he thinks that il such a sugges-
ton is carried through that it viii be of
benefit to the Kansas stock men,
If Senator fuckers resolution is pass
ed by the house and senate of the Kan
sas and Missouri legislatures some good
might result to the Kansas stockmen
as is the intent CT Senator Tucker, but
II the resolution is passed and the stock
yards law is repealed then the stock
raisers are at the mercy of a Joint COM
mittee equally divided as to member
ship between the Kansas and Missouri
legislatures.
II the Kansas stockyards law is re-
pealed then the high rates for feed and
Weighing which the Kansas law was to
remedy, will be restored and the stock
men will pay the stoci1yards fees they
objected to two years ago.