Arizona republican., 1913-10-03
FOREIGN MEATS
 PRICE EFFECT
Secretary Tomlinson of the American National Live Stock Association Be lieves Disturbance Will Be Serious

T. w. Tomlinson, secretary of the American National Live Stock osso- citation. arrived in the city yesterday. accompanied by Mrs. TomIinson. He has been making a tour of the north west, addressing state associations. but more particularly for the purpose of making investigations of the inn portauons of meats from Australia and New Zealand and the effect of lhoSe lmportatIonS upon the market.
 He found that while q good deal oI frozen, antlpodean meat was being brought to America, most of ii was pelhS delivered at Canadian ports in spite of the fact that Canada charges tarlII of cents, while this coun- try.s rate is only a cent and half. mat Is explained on the ground of climatic conditions The meat is bet- ter handled in the cold, dry atmos- phere of the Canadian northwest than on this side of the line
 Some Australian and New Zealand meat said MT. Tomlinson, has been shlpped to Pacific coast points, San Francisco and Los Angeles, but it has not given satisfaction, due to the methods of handling it so that it has not really been brought into com petition with the chilled meat of this country. But arrangements are being made to bring it in in large quanti- ties, but l do not think that it will eb extensively used on the coast. but will be shipped to the high and dry country of the interior.
 As to prices, there will unques- I.I
 but how much it is impossible to say. It may only prevent an advance of prices. Whether it will affect the live stock industry of this country, and to what extent. if any. I do not know. Prices are already high here and stock is scarce, so that there may be no apreciable effect beyond the leveling of prices.
 We could not say that if 100000 cars of cattle and sheep were brought in from Argentine or Australia and New Zealand there would no effect But there is a world shortage of meat, and if the primitive methods of pre- pairing and handling it in those coun- tries are improved perhaps the ship ments, or a large share of them. would be diverted to Europe England al- l CctblN CpilS UIiicS large NlQdIlllleS or these meats.
 While I do not think that the live stock industry of the country will be disastrously affected it has not been fairly treated in the preparation of the live stock schedule. We tried to get a countervailing duty against those countries which impose a tariff on American live stock and meat. but g, !, !, the senate finance committee. We secured an amendment for the inspcc- ton of foreign meats and live stock similar to the inspection required in this country, and the amendment in cluded countervailinG feature, but it was riddled in the conference"
 Speaking of the Lever land leas- ing bill. MT Tomlinson believed that the prospects for it's passage at the next session of congress were favor able The secretary of agriculture and the secretary of the interior, though not endorsing the bill itself, had endorsed the principle of it. T think" said Mr. Tomlinson, that the live stock interests of the country are to be congratulated on having these mon placed at the heads of those de partments"
 On his way east MT Tominson ran into Phoenix to meet Dwight E. Heard first vice president of the American National Live Stock asso- citation, and to confer with the cor poratio commission regarding rates. Said he: Thanks atO the co-opera- tion between the Live Stock associa- tion and the commission, Arizona is very favOra hIV situated with respect to rates. I am gratified to learn of the growth of your association, and I expect a large representation from Arizona at the convention of the na- tionaI association at Denver next January"
 MT. and Mrs. Tomlinson left the city at 10 o'clock last night.