The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-25
INCREASE OF LIVE
STOCK DURING WAR
SUCH is PLAN OF sTockMEN OF
NATION AS EXPRESSED AT
CONVENTION.
Advocate Plan to Exterminate Prcda.
tory Wild Animals and Further In
Nesti9ation Into Value Of Graz
ing on Forest Lands.

Salt Lake City.-InCreaSed produc-
ton of live stock in the United States,
suspension during the period of the
war of the 6iO-ucre homestead act, CO.
operation Of congress in regulating
railroad rates and terminal changes.
and the assumption OF jurisdiction by
the secretary of agriculture of the I'M
appropriated public domain, were
adopted as resolutions at the closing
session on January 10 of the twenty
hrst annual convention of the Ameri-
can National Livestock association.
Further investigation into the value
OF grazing on the forest lands, up-
proval Of the action of the federal
trade commission in holding public
hearings to extend facts connected
with the packing industry, appropria-
ton by congress of similar amounts
advanced by the state for the eXter-
laination of predatory wild animals, II
federal war tax on dogs and the urg
ing of congress to provide the extern
sion of military instruction To high
schools of the country We're other res
olutions passed by the convention.
Denver Next Meeting Place.
Denver was set as the meeting place
for the twenty-second annual conven-
ton of the association in 1919, be-
cause of Its central location with re-
gard TO the cattle industry Kansas
| City ran a close second for the honor.
All of the officers holding positions
! during the past year We're reelected.
! 1t was universally conceded that IL
would be very foolish and inadvisable
| to swap horses in the middle of the
stream" and the motion was carried
| unanimously. The following are the
officers of the convention, reelected
| for 1918:
! President, Isaac Il. Pryor, San An
/ tonic, Tex; first vice-prcsidcnt, J. Il.
/ Kemdrick, Sheridan, Wyo.; second
vicepresident, G. NJ. O'Donel, Bell
/ Ranch, n, NJ; NJ. H. Parsons, Salt
! Lake City; Wallis HuIdekoper, Wallis,
/ Mont. Isaac Baer. Mceker, Colo; w
j. Todd, Maple Hin, Kan, and +. L.
| Burke, Omaha, Neb. treasurer, John
! w. Springer, Denver Colo. attorney
! Sam ii. Cowan, Fort Worth, Tex. sec,
| rotary, Il. w. Tomlinson, Denver, Colo
Affirming its confidence in President
! Woodrow Wilson ms commander IN
! chief of the armies and navy of the
! United States. and maker of public
| sentiment for the allied world, and
J. pledging the president the whole heart.
! ed support of the livestock men OF the
nation in any efforts or policies he may
/ deem necessary 10 win this war, the
American National Livestock associa.
ton went on record as approving the
| concentration of power by the govern.
! mcnt in the hands Of efficient agencies
! for the purpose Of developing and
! modelling the powers OF the nation.
The convention unanimously adopted
! a resolution authorizing enlargement
! Of It's market committee 10 member.
/ ship Of seven and expanding it's duties
! 10 include that of maintaining this spe.
! Cial delegation Mt the national capital
| for the purposes set forth.
Patriotism was the predominant
chord In the proceedings of the con,
vention and was the keynote Of every
! address delivered before the opening
/ session. President l.. T. Pryor sound.
ed the tocSiu of patriotic cooperation
! between the livestock men and the
! government In his annual address
i when he declared that the livestock
/ men, as producers Of that essential
| food product, meat. ask nothing Of the
/ government but fair proht upon their