Show DRUG TRUST AT WORK ORK Fighting the th Distribution of Dla Vaccine I WANTED EY BY STOCKMEN 4 4 HI CONTEST IS BEING WAG WAGED W WAGED AG AGED ED DT m CONGRESS Mountain Senators and Representatives tives fives However Are With the Cattle Raisers and Will Endeavor to Rave Have Government Keep Up the Free Tree Distribution e t Special Correspondence Washington March 20 The house committee on agriculture has an announced announced flounced that it will grant hearing on OD both sides in the matter of the distri distribution distribution distribution by b the department depart ent of agriculture agriculture agriculture ture of blackleg vaccine Chairman Wadsworth of the house committee says sa S his committee desires to get at all the facts before giving its approval to the vaccine item in the too annual agri agricultural cultural appropriation bilL The senators and representatives from the mountain states are all earn earnestly estly in favor of the continuation of ot the appropriations which has been of great importance to their constituents Each of them is in receipt of many letters urging the continuance of the appropriation and dwelling upon the good that has been done to stock by the governments free distribution The opponents of the appropriation are however exceedingly active and there is strong probability that they J may be able to defeat it The an tag I appears to be purely commercial and based chiefly on the efforts of the theP Pasteur P Vaccine company of Paris and Park Davis Dayis Co of Detroit two to ex en extensive extensive manufacturers of blackleg vac vaccines vaccines cines and serums who would like Uke to get this business in their hands They have hae caused the th committees of both senate and house to be with let letters letters tern from retail druggists and others protesting against the continuance con of free distribution of this valuable pre preventive preventive I The assiduity with th which these con concerns cerns have pushed their campaign is is indicated by the tle fact that i I of the correspondence on the subject j I which has bas been received by the senate I committee on agriculture Is continued distribution I Protests From rom Druggists The protests are re almost wholly from I druggists and their friends but have bave apparently had a considerable effect on the opinion of senators end and congress congressmen congressmen men from the eastern states stages It will wIIl ill probably take hard work to continue the appropriation But the mountain senators and members rs are ure a unit for fort it i t and if the item fails to be inserted In Inthe inthe Inthe the house it will undoubtedly be added when the bill reaches the senate and the matter of its retention or rejection will be fought out in iii conference The petitions against the tion are generally off the same piece of cloth and show that they are he result of organization by a drug trust against the Interests of all the stock stockmen stockmen men of the country countr The following let ter received by the senate committee committe on agriculture from H S Hartley Co of Kansas City Mo who are agents for blackleg vaccine is a fair sample of all From time to time our attention is called by customers who are desirous of using a remedy against blackleg to the fact that the United States gov government gO will supply them with vaccine free of charge While no doubt the government vaccine proves efficacious in It preventing the disease is e it would be a great boon to the stock raiser and feeder at the same time it appears to tous tous tous us as if the government were engaged in mercantile business when such Is not the intent of the people that are supposed to serve Cattle raisers and feeders are supposed to be engaged in such business for the living and profit there is in hi it and it certainly appears to us that they the should be both able and willing to stand any expense there may be attached to same Enter a Protest We therefore desire to enter our pro test against the government supplying vaccine free of charge especially as there are blackleg vaccines of well known and well tried qualities which have been for years and are still on the market as mercantile commodities It certainly seems as if the government might engage in furnishing all manney manne of medicines free of charge but we do not believe they wish to do so We trust therefore that when making ap for fur various departments you OU will see that none is furnished to manufacture and distribute free of charge such commodities as are bought and sold in itt the open market The Tho secretary of rf agriculture and Dr Salmon chief of the bureau of animal industry of the department are both strongly in favor of the continuance of tho thi appropriation and will mIl do every thing they can to carz carr it Hundreds of letters have been received by b the de do against throwing into the hands han s of corporations the manufacture and distribution and nd nd absolute control of ot o f this preventive and remedy Large breeders in each of the mountain states write stating that the defeat of the appropriation would be exceedingly ex detrimental to all the cattle breeders breeder s of the west Many Ian of them testify to t o the efficacy of the government e and all urge strongly the defeat of the th e organized druggists conspiracy to de do them of it Idaho Forest Reserves Representative Wilson of Idaho has ha s strong hopes bopes of securing the passage e of the resolution introduced by him this thi s week prohibiting the establishment or o r extension of the Idaho forest reserves except by act of The bill hill also alao o provides for the repeal of the laws per the erection of forest reserves reserve s by executive proclamation within the th e state of Idaho The bill is of interest to t o all the mountain states which have suf from indiscriminate and unhitch extension of reserves by the de do The strong representation made by b y the two Idaho senators and Wilson before the department t and aJ the committees of the two houses house s of congress have resulted in holding up u ua ua a number of proposed extensions in i n Idaho It is also quite probable ble that tha t some legislative action will be taken take n altering and limiting the power of the th e department In these extensions Rep Wilson said today that he h e thought the committee on public lands land landof s of the house would take action on his hi s bill and that a favorable report would woul d be secured scoured on a measure general in i n character prohibiting the establishment t or extension tension e of reserves without con congressional congressional gressional action The Idaho representative has also in traduced a joint resolution g to the same subject which is nov no w pending before the committee on public c lands This resolution recites in its pre pro preamble amble that large acres of pubic pUb lands land s have been reserved and set aside as a s forest reserves in the public land states state s including in many instances l tural lands more valuable for the pur purpose pu r pose of homestead settlement than fo for r timber Umber thus tending to retard and pre prevent prevent pr e vent the settlement and development nt of vast areas of the public domain an and d proceeds as follows Resolution Introduced Wh as Millions of acres have been bee n included within forest reserves again a st the wish and over the protests of th the e residents ts t of the states where they ar arand are a areat re reat J 1 and suet whIch sarve ru rump none of th pl purposes pur poses set forth in the law authorizing ing their creation and Whereas Many of the forest re reserves renes reves serves ser ves nes have been created within the H limits lim its of land grants to railroad com corn companies companies pj pa thus authorizing the said rail pall railroad railroad r road roa d companies to receive from the g government go forest reserve scrip in lieu of each alternate section within said g grant gra nt which said scrip being beat locatable beate al able abl e on land is very valuable valuable value a able abl e being worth in many instances ten times the value of the land of the th company comp co included within said forest reserve res erve thus creating a profit to the Is lan railroad company through fc forest fo rest reserves already established of many ma ny millions of dollars Now there therefore therefore fore for e Resolved That the secretary of the interior int be and he is hereby Instructed to inform the house of representatives as to the number of acres now included within wi thin forest reserves re etes belonging to lz lan railroad companies the amount am of forest reserve scrip rIp issued therefore th the market value of or said scrip sc rip and the estimated value of the theland theland th e land la nd in lieu of which said sai scrip sc rip was wag issued together with a statement sta showing whether the request t for fo r the creation of said forest reserves n 9 came ca me from the people residing within the th J e states where said reserves are cre created creed at ed or from the railroad d companies co who have this been enabled enable d to exchange land of little value for for forest fort est es t reserve scrip worth many times time s the th thit e value of the land in lieu of which h it is issued |