Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-06-24
THEIR PACKING CITIES FLAY IT
Condemn Missouri Town as a Tentacle
of Packers Trust.
OMAHA EXCHANGE YIELDS NEVER
Will Not Submit to Rule for Dairy
Cows or Others
STILL ON AT LOCAL MARKET
Cry Goes Up that So. Joe Has wiped
Self on Live stock Map as
"a Result of Its Be-
trayaI.

trayaI.
Having betrayed the confidence of the
country, the st. Joseph Live Stock ex-
change presents a sorry spectacle. II Is
selt-banued as new tentacle of the pack
ers' aggresation.-rhe Chicago Live stock
World
The St. Joseph Live Stock exchange has
given up the fight against the packers on
their post mortem inspection buying order
and betrayed the interests Of their patrons.
st. Louis Daily National Live Stock Re
porter.
! 'It Is simply O betrayal OF the interests
! It should represent and blow to the mar
ket" An Official OF the South Omaha Lave
Stock Exchange.
These expressions are fairly representa-
| tive of the general sentiment among live
stock commission men and rasers through
out the west toward the action of the Live
Stock exchange at St. Joseph In adopting
the resolutions which provide for the ac-
ceptance Of the post-mortem inspection Of
cattle at the yards
It is openly charged by the exchanges
and interests in other cities besides St
Joseph, Chicago Omaha. st. Louis, Kansas
City and Sioux City, that these resolutions
were drawn by and adopted at the COM
mand of the packers. 1t is openly charged
! that these resolutions were fixed up in
| Chicago by the packers and that the pres-
! ident OF the st. Joseph exchange was called
| into Chicago, given the resolutions with
| instructions, went bac kto st. Joseph and
had the resolutions adopted
st. Joe on the Map.
st Joseph is off the live stock map 10
! the cry that has gone up And tho feeling
| in other cities and throughout the country
where cattle interests are paramount ap-
pears to be growing more bitter toward
| the action Of the st. Joseph exchange daily.
Here is the way in which the Chicago
| Live Stock World proceeds to treat the
matter:
| ignoring the unanimous sentiment OF the
| live stock growers and shippers, II has re-
! sponded meekly to the crack OF the lash.
| walked tamely to the block and had Its
manacles forged In position
! ST. Joseph stands discredited as com
pettive live stock market. IT is merely
| spot on the map where few commission
! men do as they receive instructions from
| packers headquarters, and where live stock
| shippers, provided they are foolish enough
! learn a few days later what packers have
decided to allow them for IT.
| Ry that act they notified the live -t"ck
shippers and growers that St Joe is falth-
! less to its trust and stands ready TO lance
/ at the behest OF the killer.
J And what s the response OF the principal
/ markets OF the country-Chicago, Kansas
. City Omaha, st. Louis and Sioux City-to
'"iI Absolute GIiits'u ana nd 'an unqualiaed refusal
/ Commission men doing business at these
markets are working, not Tor the interest OF
! the packer, but Of the producer and shipper
! Packers own the stock yards there and
II they do not own the commission men
4 st Joseph has no Live Stock exchange.
1t mere boasts of tentacle leading TO the
main body of the slaughtering interest
Text of the Resolutions.
Here is the compact the St. Joseph ex-
change enter into:
The Live Stock exchange agrees, at It's
own expense, to place at each cattle scale
in the stock yards, competent Inspector
to be mutually agreed upon, who shall
3 examine all cattle at the time they aro
brought up for weighing, and designate any
that in his opinion, are diseases or unut
Any animals thus designated by the in
spector are to be taken by the suyer sublect
to post-mortem examination by government
II is Understood that the above inspector
shall represent the joint interests OF the
any animals that might be termed as ''sus-
pects," to the best of his ability and win
take eognlza9ce OF any lniorSOm giNTs ,ons
! that occur from time to time, and will uso
such knowledge TO the best advantage
The Live Stock exchange further agrees
that II will sell subject to post-mortem In
spection all cows commonly known as dairy
cows and Gamer cows, and all dairy cows
. and milch cows driven into the stock yards.
The above does not refer to range cows.
what Is Dairy Govt
The question, What is q Dairy CowT''
is one pivot on which this movement seems
TO swing. Arthur Meeker, representative
of Armours at the Chicago conference, Is
quoted as admitting his buyers did not
know what a dairy COW was except that
II was an animal giving milk The point
at stake is the stockmen contend, that II
this rule is allowed to bo applied to dairy
COWS It win soon be applied to every COW
and heifer within twenty-four hours. within
a week to hogs and later TO steers.
This is the position which Omaha and
South Omaha dealers took at the outset
and II is the position they have main
tained unhinchingly. Only Saturday The
Bee was advised by an official OF the
South Omaha Live Stock exchange that It
had not and would not recede from this
position. He said II had not and would
not agree TO the post mortem inspection
Of anything He said the South Omaha
exchange would never subscribe TO tho
agreement made by St. Joe and scorned
such concession. He said the matter was
. still 'in the air. at South Omaha and
that the exchange there would never yield
as the one at ST. Joe had done.
Action Taken in Chicago.
Commission men at the various markets
are supporting those exchanges that have
not yielded to the packers Here are some
resolutions adopted by the executive com
mittee Of the Chicago exchange after
conference at which officials OF the pack
ers preferred the same articles to which
the St. Joe exchange subscribed:
Resolved, That members OF this exchange
are hereby authorized, until further notice,
to rebate the entire commission charges
70 members OF the Live Stock and Traders
exchanges at Kansas City, b. Joseph,
Omaha, ST, Louis, or Sioux city who do
not sell she cattle subject TO post mortetn
Inspection, on all shipments OF she cattle
: forwarded by them from those markets
for sale at Chicago