The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-05-01
Trucks VS.. Railroads

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l. Trucks VS. Railroads
We urge our house of representa-
tives to oppose the bill giving the
Interstate Commerce Commission
power to fix rates of trucks, as this
will eliminate trucks as competitors
to railroads.
National Forests
WHEREAS, The stability of the
livestock business on national for
ests is dependent, to very great
extent, on long-term permits, and
because of the refusal of federal
loan agencies to grant loans with
out such long-term permits, and
even with them when subject to
radical cuts in number of stock
grazed; therefore, the Okanogan
County Livestock association vehe-
mently protests against an elimina-
ton of the ten-year permit period,
even though it may be temporary.
Should the department in charge
insist on only yearly permits for
the season of 1885, we ask definite
public assurance of prompt re-
newal of the ten-year period We
desire to go on record as being, on
the whole, fairly well satisfied with
the present regulations governing
grazing on our national forests, and
as opposed to any radical changes
detrimental to our industry. How
ever, while recognizing the claims
of other interests on our national
forests, we object most strongly to
the tendency of those in charge to
regard national-fo grazing as a
more or less necessary evil that
should be gradually eliminated by
ever-increasing autocratic reduce
tons and restrictions. We ask for
no privileges they grazing or
otherwise merely a fair ap-
plication of our rights, whether
based on priority, purchase, or land
value. In this resolution we make
the following recommendations:
/. Adjustment of the 10 per cent
cut on transfers.
2. A plan to make forest permits,
as nearly as possible, transferable
vested rights, SO that our outfits, as
whole, may have some collateral
loan value acceptable to the Farm
Credit Administration.
3. A more practical uniform
method, and more cooperation, in
ascertaining the carrying capacity
Of a range.
4. A check to the growing tend
ency of penalizing the more sue
cessful and satisfactory permittees
for the benefit of untried applicants.
We suggest in this connection: ca
establishment of liberal economic
units and exemption limits; CD no
cuts for those who, by good man
agement, increased the carrying
capacity of their ranges; Co uni
form enforcement Of regulations
where similar conditions exist; I'd
rotation and deferred grazing when
the permittee prefers, and only then,
rather than cuts, as a method of
restoring damaged ranges.
5. Continuance, in general, Of the
policy of individual fenced allot-
mentS.
6. Elimination of all permits for
exempt stock.
7. Access to information as to the
methods employed in determining
questions of range management, in
Guiding what might be termed an
itemized bill for grazing fees in let
tiers of transmittal.
8. That a permittee be given the
right to choose what area of his
allotment is to be distributed if
distribution cannot be avoided.
Commenting Work In Eradication
OF Predatory Animals
Resolved, That we commend the
chief of the Biological Survey and
the director of the Federal Emer-
gency Relief administration for the
splendid work they are now doing
in the eradication of predatory
animals and in rodent control, and
urge that the appropriations for
this work be continued.
FOOt-And- Mouth Disease
Resolved, That there be no relax
ing of the quarantine restrictions
which prevent imports of animals
from countries afflicted with foot
and-mouth disease. Countries which
have abandoned the fight to clean
their herds of this malady should be
barred from exporting cattle to the
United States as long as such con-
dtions exist.
Mooon C:+ IN