Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-28
LIVE STOCk LAW VIOLATED
Secretary Wilson fsnds Evidence to the
Department Of Just'oS
CASES AGAINST NINE WESTERN ROADS
Among Them Are the Burlington,
Great Northern and Union Pacific
--.. -Pinchot ExpIaiAs For ..
estry Reserve.

!. NAShlNGTON, Dec. N-SeCretary VIII
son of the Department Of Agriculture
transmitted to the Depsrtment Of Justice
nine additional cases 81 alleged violation
Of what popularity known as the thirty
six hour law" which provides that rail-
road companies shall not detaln stock on
railroad cars for a longer period than
| twenty-eight hours without food and water
except with the consent of the owner Of
the stock and then no longer than thirty
six hours. THE cases were one each
against the Great Northern the oregon
| Short Line, the Southern Pacific. the
| Unicn Pacific, the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern and the Chicago Burlington &
Quincy and three against the Santa Fe.
The secretary forwarded the complete evil
dence in each case to Attorney General
Bonaparte and requested him to institute
proceedings. The law provides as a pen
atty for violation fine of $500. -
Secretary Wilson says there we're SOW
eral hundred cases under consideration by
the agricultural department and that
everywhere the evidence warrants prose-
cution will be instituted. The attorney
| general has cases against the Southern
Pacific, the Lake Shore e. Michigan
Southern, the Big Four and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul roads.
Defense of Land Withdrawals.
Clifford Pinchot chief of the forest ser
vice, today approved a rough draft Of a
report to the secretary Of agriculture re-
! lating to the 100000 acres of land In In
dian territory, whose withdrawal for for
est reserve purposes brought about crti-
cism of the secretaries of the interior and
agriculture by senate committee. The re-
port will be a defense of the withdrawal of
the lands, which are located in the Choc-
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first that the proposed forestry reserve
was asked for primarily by the Indians
! themselves: second that the maintenance
of forest on the proposed area will fur
nish a much needed continuous supply Of
timber and wood for local use and also pre-
vent disastrous floods along 1000 miles OF
| the Red river in Texas, Arkansas and
Louisiana, where immense sums are now
expended for levees: third, that the forest
reserve would not take up all the residue
of lands after allotments to the Indians.
The report will further insist that the
secretary Of the interiors action in tenn
porarily suspendng allotments was not
only within his right but that he would
have been remiss had he done otherwise.
| As a result of careful inspection by the
| forestry bureau recommendation Will be
made to the secretary of agriculture. who
/
tary Of the interior, to the effect that the
area originally withdrawn can be reduced
one-half by leaving out the part In the
| Cherokee nation and all the lands within
| twenty miles of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway in the Choctaw nation. This
report, which II is expected the secretary
of the interior will make public, will show
that considerably more than half the re-
duced area IL valuable for agriculture and
can be allotted IN, the snear. future, after
examination TO determine its arabic char
acter.
/ NotwithstanafiiK intention that the
| secretary or INC HnteffJr Had no warrant
OF Iaw In which. tn rsSrrsate the lands, the
| contention being, that they primarily pc
| long to the Indians It rs understood that
the withdrawal ,wiIl,rtake place aud that
the indiana have tho 1Ttght No try out the
authority or the secretat% In the courts,
Pay for Capp! Employer.
| Chairman Shonts Of the Isthmian Canal
commissions, announced today that the com
| mission has decided TO pay the employees
on the isthmus whose compensation is liked
| on an hourly basis for January l, February
% May g. July T. Labor day, Thanksgiving
| CAV and December %. The compensation
for these employees will be on the basis OF
an eight-hour day. This will grant pay for
the holidays to all the skilled mechanics
on the canal zone, who number about 5000.
If such employees be required to work on
these holidays they will be paid time and
| half in addition.
| Labels on Glucose Packages
! Representatives Of the Glucose Sugar Re-
| filming company had a conference today with
! Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural de-
partment concerning the labels which, under
! the pure food law, will have to be placed
/ on packages The conference related par
! ticularly to the labels to be placed, on corn
syrup. corn sugar, grape sugar and glucose
/ used IN Jams. The secretary gave his call
! ers TO understand that it will be necessary
/ for their labels to Indicate just what each
! package contains, .
Promotion for Bell.
| II Is announced that Brigadier General
Franklin Bell will be promoted TO- be
major general on the retirement from active
service January q of Major General Jesse
Lee. Just relieved from duty in the Philip
/ mines General Bell will continue to ds'
I ol,arg the duties of chief of stan under has