Arizona republican., 1913-01-16
Sixteenth Annual American National Live Stock Meet ing rc-clects Old Officers Unanimously and ChOses to Go to Denver Next
PASSES RINGING
 RESOLUTIONS
In Money Raising Campaign at Morning Session Sets Record With Over S15,- GOO: Granite Reef Run Today

t)OO: Granite hCcI nun
 Today
 All autoIsts who have promised to have automobiles in the Granite Reef barbecue run this morning, are request cd to form on Monroe Street east and west. The machines will proceed down Adams street to the Adams Hotel and get the party assigned to the machine, get the number and proceed to Granite Reef over the south side road return ing from the diversion works over the north side An old fashioned barbecue will be served. Automobiles will begin the run as quickly after o'clock as possible. w. w. Cook, chairman of the auto transportation committe will act as marshall of the run. There have been more than 100 autos promised for the trip. All Arizona stOckmen, all visiting stockmen and their wives are the guests of the Arizona Cattle Grow CTS association.
 Yesterday was q gala day for the American Live Stock Association. Be ginning nearly in the morning with stirring addresses and continuing through the afternoon until away after dark the sessions were pro- nounced to be the greatest in the history of an it's conventions. Enthu s.asm was at high heat The ring ing resolutions passed in the after noon. all along the lines of progress 1 ,.li T tne speeches that had been made al IT. Hpugh the convention. seemed tIttirs climax 10 the earnest effort that was felt all along would char i,etcrize the sessions of the great na tional body Tn the chief city of Arl- zeua
 In the morning Assistant Chief Forester Potter of the United States forest service. told in a speech re Irar!tabIe for it's clear statement and f fcndly cooperative spirit, what the forest service is doing to protect the live stock industry and how the DOT tions that have come under its super vision have prospered
 John w Springer eight times pres idcnJ of the aasocia tiCn, delivered q splendid speech on the history and future prospects of the. organization and what it had accomplished for the industry in the past. How every progressive measure that had been advocated by the association had been made laws in the last decade.
 Dwight L. Heard spoke on some re- suits of cooperation. drawing speci- fic attention to the fact that the or eanization with the cO-opCration of it's members. had been one of the strongest factors in making the as .u-ciation what it is today.
 Following this the mOncy- aisinS campaign took place and the adjourn ment was taken.
 The Afternoon Session.
 While the afternoon session Was the longest cc any of those held here it aid not flag in interest. The reso- Iutions were read and passed, the fIH text appearing m another DOT ton of this issue. sam Fl. CoWan oi Texas. general counsel for the a-sp- ciation. then addressed the body for one hour and fd ty-fiye minutes. t,llirs the large audience some of the il .siOc history of the work of the of ficcrs that has not before been pub llshed. lie told of how many times the members of the executive com mittec and the officers had found matters pending in the national con gross that would not be fair to the cattle industry and how these things had been headed off. How from the beginning. when they were allowed but forty minutes before the commit tee on intQ state commerce, until tacN presented the facts demanding the right of the commerce commission tC make rates, until the end of the in eStigdtion that consumed five years tune. when thev had won so great a victory that the chairman asked remission from them to give his name 70 the bill now known as tht Hepburn bill. All these things arc more
 A :. Hawkins. formerly of Texas aauhor Of the lease Jaw in effect il that state, then addressed the con vention. telling of the fight fd- that class uf legislation in Texas and th, good it has done since it has beer passed. Mir Hawkins now resides il Phoenix
 Following this resolutions were req, indorsinG the work of Secretary Q Agriculture Wilson, who is apOut |, retire from public life. and Chairman Underwood read d resolution indors ing the Lever lease law. which pro Vides for federal control. with a larg measure of local control. of the graz ing ranges on the public lands in tn semi -a-id stretches Of the Unite