Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-22
OBJECT TO CANADIAN STOCK
Irish Would Forever Bar All American
Cattle from Their Borders.
ALICE DISEASE WILL BE SPREAD
Lord Dunraven f. Not Permitted to
Borrow state Money 20 buy
Land which He Had
once sold.

ada is stil agitating Ireland. An influential
delegation has just returned from London.
where an emphatic protest against the ad-
mission Of Canadian cattle was made The
members OF the deputation in their speeches
to the prime minister urged that the pres
ent embargo against the importation of
live store cattle should be maintained i'm
order to guard against the serious danger
Of the introduction Of cattle disease into
Ireland to the great detriment Of the cat
tie trade and dairying industry. Examples
we're quoted Of the disastrous consequences
OF imported cattle disease In times prior to
the existing restrictions. The prime min
lister IA understood TO have stated In reply
that he had been impressed by the strong
case which the deputation had SO clearly
put forward. The subject was one Of In
terest, not only TO Cork, but to all who
were engaged in agriculture in ireland.
There was. of course. some objection to a
continuance Of restrictions upon the free
movement Of agricultural produce, but he
was not unaware of the danger they APP
pretended. good deal OF comment had
been excited by speech he made on the
subject some months ago to his own electors
in a grazing district, who. whilst fully APP
preciating the supplies obtained from Ire
land were naturally disposed to welcome
any safe extension of their sources of sup
ply He had no hesitation in promising the
deputation that their views would be laid
before his colleagues, and all due attention
would be paid to the Importance Of the sub
ject
Resolutions at Cork.
At the last meeting OF the Cork county
council Mr. OCalaghan, County Cork, Ban
he 81
That we, the County council of County
Cork, assembled in special meeting, duly
conveyed, earnestly desire to impress on his
majesty's government the Importance of
maintaining the existing restrictions on the
importation Of Canadian cattle into the
United Kingdom. which has been so free
from disease since these restrictions were
imposed. and we consider such Importation
would be a great menace to the present i'm
munity of cattle disease in Ireland. We
greatly apprehend that any relaxation of
these restrictions would cause serious risk
principal source Of trade that the irish
the possible introduction Of cattle disease,
which in one Of its many contagious forms
we believe the American continent and Can
ada are never wholly free from.
The chairman, J. ]. Howard, said he
agreed that there was great danger Of
recurrence Of the disease. He believed,
too, that It would be ruinous to the rearing
and management of dairy cattle in the
country, and It was a matter also that
the government should look to whether
in the altered condition Of things the peo-
pie would be able to meet their obligations
to the state. II the restrictions were re-
moved It would be simply new lease of
life to the graziers Referring TO the ef-
feet OF free importation and the price of
beef he said that when It was first in
troduced 1t came in at very low price
people were tempted to buy 1t at Sd or
SGD a pound. But what was the state
of affairs now? The price of rough pork,
like shoulders, was Sgd per pound, or
greater price than any rearer OF pigs
could obtain for his produce this month.
The same would occur with cattle by and
bye They would send them in at first
cheap, hut as soon as they had the cattle
industry in the country killed up would
go the price by 100 per cent or more. The
resolutions, it is needless to say, were car
ried unanimously.
As to Land Purchases.
That the thing has made a deep impress
sion upon ireland is evident from the fol-
lowing resolutions. just adopted by the
Boyle town commissioners:
That we. the Boyle Town Commissioners,
have learned with regret that processes
have been issued by the estates commits
sioners against purchasers for the King
Hartman estate for failing to pay their
demands made to these tenants for in
terest at 31A per cent during the last few
months completely swept away their ready
duction of Canadian cattle has paralyzed
recent local fairs and left stock unsold
in large numbers. We respectfully appeal
to the estates commissioners to put a stay
on these processes and not heap unneces-
sary costs on the people in season of de-
preston.
1t is being urged that these things should
have been thought of when the tenants
were being induced to pay twenty-four and
one-half years purchase of the fair rent
for the estate. The estates commissioners
have. of course. no power to remit or de-
lay the collection OF these annuities. They
are responsible to the trustees of the King
Hartman estate for the collection of the in
terest on the agreements and to the treasury
for the annuities--the purchase money. The
latter will not ask the commissioners twice
for the annuities. 1t will simply take It
out OF the exchequer grants In aid OF the
rates Of Boyle and the County Roscommon
generally and leave the commissioners to
make It good to the county II they can.
But II the Fing-Harman purchasers are in
difficulty already It begins to show the
trouble that Is also brewing for the rate
payers OF Ireland.
Mr.. Justice Meredith has just delivered
judgment on interesting application
Under the land purchase acts the estates
commissioners propose to purchase Lord
Dunravens estate in County Limerick for
the sum of S655.OOO and to advance 100000
to Lord Dunraven for the purchase Of his
demesne.
Lord DpnraVen Loses.
Four years ago Lord Dunraven purchased
from Mr.. Peter Fitzgerald a stud farm on
the Dunraven estate and he has applied FOR
further advance Of so. 900 for the repIr-
chase Of this farm for himself. The estates
commissioner now asked the court to
say whether they had authority to nd
vance this latter sum, having regard 30
the fact that Lord Dunraven was both
landlord and tenant OF tho farm and that
they had agreed already to advance him
100000 for the purchase OF the demesne.
Mr.. Justice Meredith delivered a long
judgment, in which he held that the ad-
vance for the repurehase OF the stud farm
could not be made under the land purchase
acts.
DIR. William Logan. whose death Is an
nouneed at Knoonageola, Whitehead,
County Antrim. Is one OF the few surviv-
ing protestant nationalsts who has been
brought I'm and nurtured In the midst Of the