Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-15
ROADS CAN SHIP
STOCK TO CHICAGO
Illinois Board Lifts Embargo on
Consignments Which Can Enter
Yards at Midnight Sunday.
TEMPoRIzING POLICY FOLLY
Head OF Morris Concern Says Half
Way Measures viii Reduce
Values Twenty-Five Per
Cent.

CHICAGO. Nov. 1A-An order lifting
the embargo on live stock shipments 10
Chicago was issued today by the State
Board Of Live Stock Commissioners
Railroads were notified they could &C
cept shipments to be delivered in Chit
cago on Sunday at midnight when the
Union Stock yards, under quarantine be-
cause OF the foot and mouth disease, will
be reopened All shippers must file with
the transportation company an affidavit
/ that the stock shipped is not affected
with and has not been exposed to the
maladv
The new instructions OF the bureau OF
animal industry that only the affected
animals OF herd should be killed con-
tlnued to bring protests from persons
prominent In nearly every branch OF the
industry.
TemporisIng Fatal.
Thomas r. Wilson. president Of Morris
& Co. said that temporizing with the dis
ease would Immediately reduce the
values OF live stock In the United states
/ by % per cent" +. A. White, director
OF Armour & Co, asserted he did not be-
lieve the American people wanted to run
the risk of the infection of their meat
supply.
The announcement OF the Board Of AMI
NAL Industry that. owing TO a shortage
OF funds, n maximum OF $500 would be
paid TO farmers whose infected stock was
killed resulted in a plan by DR.. S. F.
Bennett. chief Of tho federal inspectors
at the yards. by which the farmers may
some day receive a greater amount. He
ordered printed largo number of condi-
tional promissory notes, which inspectors
will issue TO farmers whose animals are
condemned They read
Half of Valuation.
Il hereby agree to accept as compensa-
ton in full from the United States gov
eminent in the event that congress ap-
propriates funds out OF which payments
can be made, ST.. which is so per cent
Of the valuation OF all animals destroyed
on account OF the existence of foot and
mouth disease
br. Simon Flexner. bacteriologist of the
Rockefeller Foundation. who will conduct
a scientific search for the foot and
mouth disease germ, left tonight for New
York with fourteen sealed steel tubes
containing virus and blood of diseased
cattle in various stages OF development.
'Dr. Flexner said no would infect a pig
in his laboratory until he found some
smaller animal upon which he could ex-
pertinent
Exhibitors OF prize cattle at the dairy
show have begun a movement to remove
the 800 animals that are quarantined In
! a barn. in the yards to a farm near the
city 1t is feared there will be heavy
! loss In the herd from other diseases II IT
is kept in close quarters much longer.
subject of Conference.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1S.--shortage of
available funds for the campaign against
the widespread live stock foot and mouth
disease epidemic was the subject of long
conferences today between Secretary
Houston and other officials OF the De-
partment. OF Agriculture Later II was
| said a statement on the subject would be
issued tomorrow.
Officials fear that unless some means
can be devised TO make more money avail
able Immediately the department will be
seriously hampered In its work Of eradi-
eating the disease. The stage already has
been reached where the department will
have to husband what funds It noY has
on hand.
Orders were issued today that not more
than $500 worth of cattle in a herd be
slaugh without special authorization
from tho department unless the owner of
the herd agreed that payment should be
contingent upon congress appropriating
the money.
The question has been raised as TO
whether available funds appropriated for
other purposes may be diverted TO fight
tho foot and mouth disease. The legal
phases OF this question were gone into
carefully today, but no decision was an
nounced.
The quarantine against hay was modi-
fled by the department today so as "a
provide that hay cut before August l last
may be shipped in interstate commerce
without disinfeetion. n baled prior TO No
vember l. The previous regulations pro.
vided that hay could be shipped without
dislnfection. provided II was cut and baled
prior 20 August l. The National Hay
association had urged that the quarantine
he modified because OF a threatened short.
age OF hay.