Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-08
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Live Stock Sanitary Board to Decide
Tomorrow on Length Of
Quarantine.
ANTI.MERGERs WOULD FARLEY


! whether the drastic quarantine against
the foot and mouth disease will be con
tinued indefinitely in Nebraska or lifted
when the present order runs out on
March 10 will be settled today when
the state Live Stock sanitary board
meets at Lincoln.
| The present order has been on for a
month and a petition Of 5000 names is
said to have been presented TO the gov
ernor asking that II be lifted. On the
other hand a petition asking that the
/ quarantine be kept on Nebraska for an
indefinite period, or until all possible
danger Of the spread OF the epizootic has
ceased has been circulated in the western
/ part Of the state among the heavy stock
growers who are said to be backed by
/ large financial institutions.
! The meeting tomorrow will he a most
! important one, IL is said. and the results
will largely depend upon the stand taken
! by the Nebraska bankers and the large
western stock growers
May He Compromise.
n proposition in the nature Of n COM
promise will probably bc Offered leaving
| the whole matter 20 cooperative action
between the state sanitary boards OF Ne
| braska and Iowa
Lieutenant Governor Harding OF Iowa
and state Veterinarian j. I. Gibson OF
Iowa will be present at the meeting in
Lincoln. state Veterinarian Gibson OF
Iowa says there are eighty counties in
! Iowa pronounced free area by both state
and federal authorities at the present
time. He criticises as folly the adoption
OF any quarantine measures unnecessarily
rigid.
The present Nebraska embargo he
thinks is especially severe on feeder stock
and pure bred stock which can not be
moved across the state line The local
stockmen who have handled the western
Iowa feeders for years are suffering pos
sibly the loss of $50 cars a day. Some
of these men say that the present quar-
antinue order is rigid only insofar as it
keeps the feeder cattle from western
Iowa out and does not affect the fat
cattle for immediate slaughter They
argue that with stuff coming into Ne
braska there has been spread of the foot
and mouth disease and they believe that
with the proper precautions on the part
of the authorities OF both states no in
fected cattle would come in il the en-
western
Iowa cattle are affected
Letter from Iowa.
Bankers of western Iowa are interested
IN raising the embargo and have sent the
following letter to E. f. Buckingham
general manager of the South Omaha
stock yards The letter written by p. w.
Hail. secretary of the Iowa Bankers as
sociation, says:
Quarantine regulations against hoof
ana mouth disease have Leen ligidly en-
forced in Iowa. The disease has been
confined to few counties in the eastern
part OF the state. These counties have
quest your assistance in raising the en-
barge placed on Iowa by Nebra ska
rour,nfths OF the counties in Iowa have
not had shadow of infection. The
omaha market should be opened i'm
mediately TO at least the western half OF
cur state. Our asso ?iation will not be
separately represented AT the conference
II Lincoln on Monday. but those from
TINS state, who will attend are the most
competent judges of the situation in
i Sfep and I'VE trust trust you will use your
western Iowa the relief to which they are
entlued hou realize without my saying so
that the raising Of this embargo will
greatly benefit South Omaha.
shippers Sign Petitions
During the last week stock shippers
'SNe-i
are said to have eagerly signed the
petition to raise the embargo now on
so as to permit the free shipment of cat
tie from western Iowa and South Da-
kota under the federal supervision. Re
taliatory measures on the part of Colo
RADIO and Kansas against Nebraska are
feared If the present drastic quarantine
Is kept on, 1t is asserted
~,
Nebraska refused to be quoted on the
proposed lifting of tho Nebraska quar-
sntine, yesterday. They explained that
the meeting at Lincoln would probably
determine their stand in the matter
Larsen Says Bill VIII Win.
Representative John Larsen of South
Omaha, in an interview last night, ex-
pressed the opinion that the Omaha con-
solidation bill will Garry in the house |
when 1t comes to a vote. Larsen is en-
in favor Of the bill. He
has been beseiged by the officeholders |
to change his stand and II Ia understood
that County Commissioner John Lynch |
was asked to use his influence to switch
Larsen. 1t is said that Commissioners
Lynch absolutely refused to consider the
The leading ants are now trying to
make what terms they can before the
legislature acts on the measure. pro-
position to submit the matter to a vote
of all the cities. including Omaha, would
be acceptable to them now, 1t is said,
If the additional provlso could be made
that the measure would not become ef-
fective until 1916. This would extend the
terms of the present officeholders and
also permit the allowance of many public
contracts.
Local business men are now openly
boosting for the measure and the COM
mon taxpayers are anxiously awaiting
for the passage of the bill The ants
are still hoping that the packing inter
ests will assist them. w. L. SeIby,
we'll known tax representative OF the
South Omaha packers is said to have
told men favoring the bill that the
packers may get in the game yet. Selby
has made numerous appeals for packer
help, it is said. The latest is that he has
a letter from a Chicako packer who Is
said 10 have expressed some doubt
whether he should let the bill become a
law.
Charter Amendment.
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