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Show RAILROADERS NOT IN IT. National Live-Stock Association Bars Them Out DENVER, Co.':.. Jan. 11 Not thl9 year will the railroads occome members mem-bers of Vhe National Live-Stock association. associa-tion. It is now certain that so much of the reorganization plan of President F J. Hagenbarth .is relates to the railroads rail-roads is foredoort d to failure. The remainder re-mainder of his plan, which Involves representation on the board of control of the industries allied to the live stock Interests, may be carried. President Hagenbarth declared this morning that he would continue the fight before the convention of next year, if his plan failed to carry this time. There will be two reports submitted to the convention the plan of reorganization, reorgani-zation, the majority being against the plan as far as It applies to the railroads, rail-roads, the minority favoring their admission. ad-mission. At the morning session of the convention, conven-tion, Vice-President H. A. Jastro of f'nlifornla preskled In the absence of President Hagenbarth After the transaction trans-action of some routine business. Frank t'ooper of Kansas City, Mo., was Introduced Intro-duced and read a paper on ' The commission com-mission merchant and his relation to the live-stock business." Mr. Bell of Laramie, WyO- spoke strongly urging the cattlemen to stand together against the railroads which h said did not treat the cattlemen with sufficient consideration. frank BrUton of Colorado read a paper describing live-stock conditions In the past nn compared with those of the present. pres-ent. Ills remarks wore filled with humorous humor-ous hits at the cattle business, and kept the convention In continuous laughter. Mr. BrUton deplored the low prices foi-beef foi-beef that prevail .it the present lime, but declared that the chief cause Of the situation sit-uation was the poof Quality of the best sent to market. He advocated the sending send-ing Of smaller herds nnd the maintenance, of h higher standard In the quality of cattle shipped "Governmental Ilegulatlon of Interstate Transportation" was the subject of an exhaustive address by S. H. Oonan of Fort Worth, Tex. He prefaced his address ad-dress proper by Having that the stn.-k-men were continually reminded that they Bhould live In harmony with those with whom they did business, particularly the railroads. The roads In Texas, he asserted, as-serted, had Increased their rates on cattle cat-tle within the last two years by from 20 to 30 per cent During that period, he said, the prices for rattle had gonn up but 10 per cent. There was small chance for harmony he thought, under such circumstances, unices a few concessions conces-sions were made by those on the other side of the question. The existing Interstate commerce law hadi been of great value, he declared, and he was opposed to the onoctment of a new statute which might possibly destroy the benefits derived from the present law, wlthoift compensating benefits The speaker Insisted that the present law was adequate when some of Its I m pert CtiO had been eradicated, and he proceeded to point out some of Its defects, among the chief of which hn cited the wording of the "long and short haul" clause, and he suggested alterations which would make It more effective than at present. The claim frequently male by the railroads rail-roads that the law would tend to make freight rates Unprofitable t.. tb.-ni, he declared de-clared to be unfounded. He urged that In all cases the orders .f the Interstate Commerce commission should be binding and not to be set aside unless It could be shown that they were In conflict with other laws The vital defect of the Interstate commerce com-merce law. he declared, wan that the commissioners com-missioners lacked the power to enforce their decr.es He favored speedy action by Congress empowering the commissi. .tiers .ti-ers to make their orders binding upon tho railroads and upon the shippers. At the conclusion of Mr. Cowan's address ad-dress the contention adjourned until tomorrow to-morrow morning, when It Is expected that the committee on general organization will report to the convention. |