Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-06-09
FULKERSON
Wants FACTS
Resolution Calls for Public
ity Meat Packing In
spection Report.
GET NERVOUS
Foreign o6ee to Inquire Reliance
Placed in Bureau Animal In
dusty Findings.

Washington. June s.-Representa,
tive rulkerson Of Missouri has In.
tEodueed q resolution calling on Pres
ident Roosevelt and the secretary of
agriculture 70 immediately make pup
Tie any and all Information that may
secure from ''the great army Of meat
Inspection employees by the govern.
ment." or from any other source that
viii tend TO credit or discredit the
product Of any packing plant where
meat products are prepared. The 70
solution also calls upon the secretary
of agriculture to Immediately give 10
the public his opinion on the condi
tions of the packing plants and the
heaithfulness Of products coming
from re various plants.
eritcus Get Nervous.
London, June s.--John Burns, prest
dent Of the local government board.
has requested the British foreign
Office 10 communicate with the state
department nj Washington and aseer.
tain 10 what extent reliance can he
placed on the system Of meat inspec
tion under the bureau Of animal In.
dnstrs. In making the announcement
he said that he had taken this action
through the medium Of q reply 10 a
question put In the house OF commons
hy William Field nationalist member
from Dublin and president % the
Irish Cattle, Traders and Stock Own.
ers' association
Pleads Speedy Action.
Washington. - June s.-~The beef
hearing before the house.
commftte on agriculture was begun
today by listening TO Representative
Garner of Texas. who made a plea
for speedy action.
Additional Expense.
s. II. cowan Of Fort Worth, Texas,
attorney for the Texas Cattle Raisers'
association. was next heard. He de.
tailed the extent Of the Texas cattle
industry and said that while the rails.
ers have their difficulties with the
packers and had not got the best of
them, yet In this question the inter.
est Of the raisers and packers were
identical.
IF there Is additional expense" he
said. "some one will have to pay II.
and the man who can name the price
Of the thing he sells can put addl-
tional expense where he pIeases.
stockmen believe the packers could
put this expense up on the stock rails
ers."
Cattle Values Suffer.
Attorney Cowan read a telegram
from j. L. Lytle. president Of the
Cattle Raisers' association Of Tex.
as. II said: "The present agitation
has seriously depressed the cattle
business. The universal impression Is |
that cattle values will suffer from
four to five dollars per head decline" |
telegram from Murdo Nc.
Kenzie. manager of the second larg.
EST cattle ranch In America, was read.
Colorado Prices.
In Colorado" Mr.. cowan con.
tinued. the price estimated by tele-
graphic reports shows the fall in
price would be one dollar per hun
ired weight
Asked by Representative Adams OF |
IL the packers did not fix
he price paid for cattle. Mr.. cowan
;aid this was an impossibility under
ordinary conditions. Neither can
he cattle raisers by combination fix
he price" he declared. '"The reason
IS that when cattle get into condi I
ion they must be sold"
Levy Cost on Cattle.
Representative Haugen OF Iowa asi;.
ID Mr.. Cowan II he had read the
presidents message which estimates
he cost Of inspection at eight cents
per head. "But we don't want to pay
or it-that is our reason" replied
sfr, Cowan. But rather than do
without the law We would be glad
o lsvy the cost on cattle, he con.