Show I TOPICS fOR STOCKMEN Nr i Convention Will Discuss Subjects V Sub-jects of Importance V V ry ABOLISH STATE INSPECTION VQ V 1 itt V V i-tt V tti i j VV To Extend Time Limit on LiveStock I Shipments Cattlemen Say that tho V Oleomargarine Bill Must be Defeated De-feated Considered to bi Bank Class L Legislation Yearly Census of LiveStock I Live-Stock will bo Asked for as Owing Ito I-to Changing Conditions Decimal r i I Census Is of No Value I tr t1 I At no time in the history of this V i It country have subjects in which the V livestock Industry is interested received iliJi re-ceived ns serious consideration ns they will at the coining convention of the J National LiveStock association which will convene in this city on tho IGlh ot tuIVJ next January The men qomposlng 1 L this organization represent In tho United States the Industry in all Its branches and as an invested capital V V the Incomprehensible sum of 2750000 I 000 Having a power like this behind It V V V the association has been able to establish estab-lish itself before Congress and secure D1I iccognltlon for any reasonable den de-n mds it may make In the Interest of the stockgrowers of the country V IMPORTANT SUBJECTS ai VI Some of the most important subjects iDAT which will be acted on at this meeting co and which the lawmaking bodies will be asked to pass I on are the abolishment abolish-ment of State Inspection on Interstate shipments of live stock the defeat of 1 p4 the Grout bill now before the Federal V Housei extending to forty hums the VV4 limp limit on livestock shipments In T llu1M what Is known MS the twentyolRht V hour law a retalIatory measure against V the German Govciiiment because of Its I i1l policy In excluding American meats lequest for a yearly classified census of JFVd V live stock an amendment to the interstate inter-state commerce Jaw giving the Commission Com-mission Judiclarv power the abolishment j abolish-ment of terminal charges at the Denver Den-ver and Chicago markets and the arid iL land question lV Stockmen of the Western Stales are at present mulcted by Stute sanitary h and Inspection boards to such an extent V ex-tent thai on Interstate business the system has grown to be one of fraudulent V fraudu-lent 1 perquisites and a burden upon the ° A Vuipper wmie it may be necessary to maintain State Panltury commissions for certain local purposes the members I tVeL V of the associatIon hold that when stock tyik VV is loaded for points In another State I the Inspection should be done by a Government official whose bill of health should carry the consignment to that i point without the owner having to pay V V an Inspection fee at every Stale line I that he crosses us Is now the custom I IVV U V DR SALMONS VIEW I AO J A letter iccently V received by thQ secretary of the association from Dr D E Salmon chief of the bureau of UdL V animal Industry at Washington covering cov-ering this poInt Is an follows V V I am In receipt of your faor of the llth 5tA Inst In regard to Inspociloji 1 of live stock dg mid State Inspection foes and would say V in icply that this bureau hal endeavored 4fli V to furnish facilities for the Inspection of animal dipped from ono State to nn L ir other jo a3 10 obvIate tne necessity of State inspections and the consequent cx c CUPC for the collocilon of fees Personally I believe this system of Inspection feta IVUb is I u tax on Interstate commerce and as 1 sIt V such would be held by thu Supreme court I 111r t to bo unconstitutional At the same tlmo V V 1 do not know that any caw has been > rdV parried to that court md passed = upon I S although the principle him hen laid down again und ngiln that no State could put rcctnU a tax upon such commerce V ll10 not set how the matter can bo eJt finally disposed of except by some of tho htockmcn carrying I the t matter Into tho cojrlK mid obtaining a decision This bureau bu-reau IK Increasing Its Inspection force as rnpdly as possible HO as to handle time Interstate traffic both In cattle and sheep 4 V and It hopes In that way to relieve tho I IALS mockowner from Lime hardship of being I obliged to pnv Inspection fees In cases where11I inspection is 1 unneccsbary or where It might be done by the Federal I ia Government I have Instructed my In iS specters to make ln pc > ctloru for Inter V Ktule shlpincntH wherever they are called upon to do Jot 0 and not to riaslst In tho 1 collection of InRpectlon fees for State authorities t au-thorities or to recognIze the propriety of S such collections In tny manner Phis IB i V Ol fr rs 1 can go In the matter but I or should hn phased cooperate with you I In any manner that appcara feasible to V remove thin burden of local inspection I V fees from the I livestock Industry Very I r truly yours D H SALMON V1 Chief of bureau S It Is the purpose of the association I to make a test case on some shipment curly the coming year I OLEOMARGARINE BILL The Grout bill or as it Is heller I LOUY known the oleomargarine measure TI now before Congress and set as a special J spe-cial order In the IIouuc of Representatives j Representa-tives for December Gth Is I another Important Im-portant measure and one the passage of which the stockmen are endeavoring endeavor-ing to defeat The l proposed bill 1 levies I < < I Jtc a tax ot 1U c = = n Iii per pounu on every S pound of oleomargarine manufactured 4P Its Intent Is the lankest kind of class legislation and Its passage would wipe tkfAS1 V the Industry out of existence In dollars V dol-lars l and cents Its passage means a loss 1 to the cattlemen of 2 per head on aJ1v S every beef animal in the United Slates OD f or about 00000000 < to the swine big breeder 20KK000 and to the oil in I duatiy 20000000 mote It has been ii SV S nemon lratcd by Government sclontlsts S that oleomargarine is an absolutely rOCeIl pure and healthy article of l < tandls L s V assimilated by the stomach at a less S degree of heat than butler The passage V V V pas-sage of the proppsed law would imme dlatolv double the prlcje of dairy butter S but-ter maldnff Its use prohibItory among the masses apt also rob the latter of I the use of an article equally as beneficial VV benefi-cial r present tnxvon oleomargarine of 2 cent per pound the alockmcn hold to be sulllclenl and as its operation V opera-tion la not detiimental tojlie dairy industry in-dustry they arc opposed to any V change ospacially hen time new measure meas-ure Indorsed l > y loss than oneeighth V of the dairymen In the United States STOCK IN IRAN LIThe LI-The law known as the twcnlyclght I hour law compels hlppera to unload F feed and water once in every twenty eIght hours It was enacted In J873 When trunspQrtatloh fcvilltlpft wl < jic V I much cruder than now It Is a pet VI moasurfi humane socjetlea the members I mem-bers of which h are absolutely without I information on lIvestock conditions V In tho W wU Tho Weslcrn Iitoc1 mon S maintain that range animate are accustomed accus-tomed to = o without water for a period of forty hours andit Sa less Inhumane V to let animals remain In cars a few hours lunger so they may reach their iI V destination > than It Is to prod them i V V V full of holes twist off theIr taIls and frighten them fnto spasma In an effort V to get the wild animals out of and I again In the cars In such a condition V they will noithcr eat nor drink and I V consequently their unloading Is the rA1e Krcaleat cruelly As forty hours Mill V V V permit stock trains to reach a market p from most any point in tho West the I iP aigoclatlcn has asked Congress to Et amend the present law to forty hours V and to only apply to territory west of 3t the Missouri river 1 V b11t S YEARLY CENSUS t 1 C A classified census of live stack was I VS taken this year for the first time in thee the-e hifitory of the country and was ordered iP or-dered upon the ivnucst of the usaocla yI ton It wIll show the number and S VvvI II values of yearlings tttoycarolds P threes clc by classes A decimal cell e0 ii4 V S BUS of these animals Is of littlo value V for the data are not made public soon enough by the department LIvestock conditions change every six months and a census ot this character taken I every year and published Immediately the same as is done by the Department of Agrlcullure on grains would bo of incalculable benefit to all interested Congress will be called upon to make an order for the carrying out of this work thus giving the livestock Industry Indus-try the same consideration as other branches of agriculture The remaining propositions arc familiar fa-miliar ones and need no explanation |