Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-02
SENATOR DORIAN BELIEVES THE
STATE AND FEDERAL FORCE
INCOMPETENT.
SLACK IMPORTATION RULES
BLAMED FOR EPIDEMIC
Government Held to Be More Careful
Regarding Quality Of Exports Than
lmports-Says Distiiery Cattle sx'
posed to Disease Were Sold For
Home Consumption.
snecial 70 T!mes- Republlean.


Des Moines, Feb. 2-When the agri-
cultural committee met today Senate:
Doran OF Boone submitted TO
the committee MS views on
what ought to be done re
garding Inc hills FOR paying FOR the
cattle killed inciden: - the light on
the foot ana mouth disease This IS
what Mir Doran s. oull have the e3r1-
mite says IN It's report:
We hnd thal the foot ana mouth
disease (rlnderpestJ Las been imported
into me United States BY Tie Imports
ton OF beef or hides from foreign
countries and the stocl infected mas
been shipped to Chicago notNith-
standing the fact that The People " me
United States have aees. heavily aXed
10 maintain a bureau OF an nal aea!iA
and an army Of Veterinary surgeons
a, an enormous cost - NJ pevpie 70
inspect al mea- proiuS,s ne United
sites intended FOR expert TO foreign
countries IN order that no contas.on
or disease OF any kind may escape
from this TO any other county, tradirg
With the United States, and as re-
sui, II our anxiety 10 set cheap bset
10 reduce the cost o. living ne are
confronted with an important disease
that threatens the life Of the bovine
meat producing interests Of the United
States. due TO inco.na.ton. ,e-eril-a--
ians directly. ana indirectly 70 bad
public policy OF hazardously importing
anything and everything mat S. Of
L
down the industry of home growers OF
pure food and expensisely inspected
meat
Exposed Cattle Sia Ieh.ered.
I'VE further find that 5000 cattle
fattened al the whisky factories OF
Peoria. all Of which were known 10 be
infected or exposed 10 the foot AMI
mouth disease. were shipped 10 the
union stock yards of Chicago and
slaughtered for human food and pre-
sunab!y shipped broadcast for sale
without quarantine restraint or regu-
latio1i Of any ls;ni 70 The danger &C tl.e
entire bovine industry OF the United
States.
We further find that IN Greene
county, Iowa, where there never was
a case Of foot and mouth disease known
within 100 miles. has been quaran tined
causing thousands OF dollars o: loss
TO the farmers directly and business
indirectly due 10 the slipshod methods
| of the veterinarians
! In view of the apparent cornbina-
| ton OF the stock yard companies. the
United States veterinarians. the whis-
key trust Of Peoria and Chicago and
| the Chicago packing companies. Te
most heartily recommend that the
/ present legislature submit to the vot-
ers of this state a proposition 10 levy
! a tax Of three mills on the dollar upon
all the property of the state including
! moneys and credits as a defense fund
to establish packing houses and stock
yards in Des Moines and pay q bounty
upon every animal slaughtered for
flood at any packing house in the state
of Iowa 10 the end that the fertility
Of the soil of Iowa be not dissipated
and sold On wheels in the form OF grain
as It surely VIII De if present methods
continue
happens to those living on diaeren,