Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-26
CONFERENCE CALLED TO DIS.
cuSs RETURN OF PRIZE
HERDS TO IOWA.
STEPS TO BE TAKEN
TO SAFEGUARD OTHERS
Owners Of Prize Stock Invited to At
{, tend Nesting Called by state Vstsr'
marian cibson-Rsiease Of Dairy
Herds to be Under Strict Regulation
-New Compensation Question.
Special to 1imes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 26.-Dr. j. I. Glib
son, state veterinarian and head of the
state animal health commission, fol-
lowing a conference held with the rep
resentatives Of the various live stock
associations, has called q meeting CT
the Iowa livestock sanitary commits
sion to be held June 2 to consider what
shall be done as to the safeguarding
Of the livestock interests of the state
in the case of return to Iowa Of certain
herds of cattle that were in Chicago
on exhibition at the big stock show
and had the foot and mouth disease.
The owners Of such herds are invited
to be present. Together there will be
worked out plan for having the ship
ment of these herds properly SAFE
guarded so as not to endanger any OF
the other live stock Of the state.
At the meeting of the association
held in Chicago this week 1t was given
as an expression Of the opinion of SAID
association that the release or the
dairy show herds from quarantine
should be under strict regulations and
that the live stock sanitary authorities
of each state should determine the con.
ditions and regulations under which
such cattle shall be admitted to tho
respective states. 1t was recognized
that a great mistake would be made
to endanger any state now by release
from quarantine Of herds that have
had the disease, without the most
careful consideration of all rights.
There is much satisfaction expressed
over the fact that the herds, or some
of them, caught in the quarantine at
the dairy cattle show, have come
through with small loss. 1t has long
been known that cattle may in a
measure, recover from the illness OF
the foot and mouth disease. and there
is hope that these cattle will fully re-
cover and demonstrate that all traces
of the disease disappear in time.
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Commissioner Garst has before him
a problem Of much more than ordinary
interest regarding the application OF
the workmen's compensation law.
Questions are raised that are vital to
the law itself.
The administrator Of an estate Of a
workman killed while in the service
of the Rock Island railroad seeks
settlement under the Iowa workmens
compensation law: the company Ieslsts
and claims the federal employers la
bility law alone rules. The main ques-
ton is as to the overlapping Of the
two laws.
On the part Of the railroad company
the claim is broadly made that the
federal government having taken Juris-
diction and undertaken to appropriate
to itself the field of settlement for IN
juries to workmen the state cannot now
have anything to do with such settle
ments as affecting interstate carriers
It is true the federal law is an en-
ployers liability act and not work
mems compensation act. It designates
the manner Of settlement only where
the employer is at fault. But the ar
gument is that having designated these
cases Of negligence as the ones where
compensation is paid it excludes the
cases where there is no negligence. AL
so it is claimed that on behalf Of the
railroad company that If settlement Is
made in the non negligent cases under
state law and the negligent cases under
federal law, the company will be pay
ing too much, because the schedule of
compensation fixed in the former is
based on a compromise as to the lat
ter. Also it is further claimed that
if settlement is made under state law
in one class of cases there is nothing
to stop the administrator at some other