Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-08
FOOT AND MOUTH QUARANTINE
RULES CREATE ILL FEELING
NOT AS YET OVERCOME.
RECENT CONFERENCE IN
| CHICAGO FAILED TO HELP
Men Whose Duty it Was to Enforce
Law Claim Meeting Was Packed
That Stringent Quarantine Measures
Prevented Serious Conditions in Iowa.
TO Times Republican.

Especial 70 Times Republican.
! Des Moines, Jan. S.--The foot and
mouth disease outbreak in Iowa a year
ago not only cost the stock raisers of
the state a great deal of money but
lit engendered so much i'll feeling be-
tween the parties who were trying to
enforce the law and some Of those who
We're the losers financially because of
its enforcement that it has not yet
been overcome The foot and mouth
disease has been eradicated but the
i'll feeling which arose because of it
has not yet been altogether overcome.
The recent conference held by the
senate investigating committee in Chi
cage did not serve 10 improve matters.
The veterinarians and government
men who have had to do with en-
forcing the law claim that the hearing
was pretty well packed against them.
They say they were notified only a
few hours before time TO start for the
meeting and had not time in which to
get together any special data they had
on the conditions of a year ago and
the methods used TO enforce the laws
whereas the element which has been
claiming that the veterinarians and
government men We're too radical and
too eXacting in their law enforcement
We're loaded with facts in support of
their contentious.
Argument of the Ants.
ON the other hand the element which
has been opposing the methods used by
state and government officials in en-
forcing the quarantine laws declare II
was all tou'iShness to quarantine the
! whole state of Iowa when portions Of
the eastern and central parts of the
state had the disease. They claim that
quarantine lines should have been
drawn which were more nearly con-
fined TO the area infected.
At the recent Chicago hearing il was
charged that state and government
officials were in league with the pack
ers and played into their hands in the
! foot and mouth trouble. These charges
the officials resented strenuously be-
! fore the committee and asked that they
be investigated. !
In refutation Of this charge DR.. j. I.
| Gibson. state veterinarian points to the
fact that Swift & Co. had two big
shipments of hogs held up en- route to
Chicago. One Of these was about 800
head at Valley Junction and there was
another big shipment in the northern
part of the state. The packers were
not allowed to take these hogs on to
Chicago but We're compelled to send
them to Sioux City for slaughter and
no live stock was permitted to leave
! the state.
Measures Prevented Epidemic
The animal health commission at it's
meeting here this week reviewed these
charged at Chicago that the Iowa
state veterinarian had exceeded his
authority in his quarantine orders on
two different occasions. The commits
sion declares that this is not true and
that the state has been saved a serious
! epidemic. which might have been as
bad as Illinois or worse. if stringent
measures had not been adopted
resolution passed by the health
commission indorses the work of the
state veterinarian as follows. Where
| as. during the past year we have ex-
perieHced an outbreak of foot and
mouth disease in nine counties in the
central eastern portion of the state |
ana whereas, we have not been free
from this disease since March, 1915 be
1t resolved, that we the members of the
animal health commission Of Iowa eX-
press our satisfa ction in the manner
our state veterinarian. DR.. J. l. Gibson
has enforced the quarantine rules and
regulations of this commission and we
hereby wish to give expression to our
appreciation of the splendid work he
and his assistants have done in COM
pletely graduating this dread disease
from our state
I'VE further express our unlimited
confidence in him and his ability as
shown in the protection of the great
live stock interests Of Iowa by the sue
cess attained in the complete eradica-
ton of foot and mouth disease"