Show OPPOSE LAND POLICY Cattlemen in Convention at Denver Open Fight on the Presidents President's Grazing Ideas Ideas' DB DENVER VER Jan Jau 21 By By a vote voto of I is to 16 the 3 annual convention of the Colorado Horse and Cattle Catto Growers Growers' association association as as- went on record late last night as aR opposed to the thc federal administration administrations administration's tion tion's s 's pol policy c of public laud land control and will vill will carry the fight tight against t any land an Jea leasing system into the thc annual convention conven conven- tion tiomi of the National Live Stock convention convene conven tion which as assembled hero here today As 5 the executive committee of ol the national national na n association approved a report of tho thic forest reserves es and grazing lan land committee which h declares in favor or of the tho Burkett bill biU for government go control of grazing lands with an additional provision pro pro- vision ismon that all unreserved mid and pu public lic lands lauds should be bc divided cd into grazing districts a 1 w warm lm contest over tho the question i is assured as when this report is presented to the national con cou- yen t ion tomorrow President President- Numb Mackenzie of the Amm Live Lie Stock association association tion who has positively declined to ac accept accept ac- ac c- c a i election re-election to that office ollice delivered ered ercil his annual address s at the morning mornin session on t of t the he associations association's eleventh elev annual President Mackenzie's s 's annual address vas devoted largely to criticism of the I treatment of sto stockmen kmen by tho railroads lie llo charged that tho the rt railroads had broken faith with shippers of live stock stockby by liv taking selfish nd advantage o of the Change e ot of HIP tue I. I hours hours in in tran transit transit it I I law Jaw which through the efforts of the American ADler Amer lean ican National Live Stock association was waR increased from front twenty-four twenty to thirty thirty six ix hours hour as the tho maximum time timo during which live livo sock could h bo be kept I unloaded for in ears cars without being fred feed water and anti rest Ho lie said that the instead of increasing their I i eil rate ate so that th the destination was I reached more quie quickly middY J than formerly as us lon consumed the tho thirty-six thirty hours i in running between feeding stations which delayed the thc of shipments at nt the point of consignment with consequent conse quent nt great greit less to the time shippers lie He layered tho the pas passage 1 i of J a law by iH which the ruha l h ls hould ho he for failing to C yiv gic H a i sq Ic tc i t t- I live f stock in ansi ami suggested t that tt tho the interstate co commission should be ii gi-ii II n power I ro 0 enforce such filCh sucha a n Jaw The Time failure of ot to supply ears cars for shipment ot If f s oik 01 was as a mutter matter of to tIe the live p stock indu Nothing settle the buta hut but a it law compelling the Iho rl to tt rip rp- ply 11 oars ears antI and r xu he heavy penalties for failure to ito to President Mackenzie touched on time the rate rato question nut HH stated that b hr- hr l. l lie lie- lic etl tho the ill commerer comm commis- commis s' s plon should ho be he given it fo to whether an m e in rates was i just us st before such Buch iu mu advance ouM h lu be put put into effect He lie u o the numbers of the tho a association to in mu make mako tin rpt jr pro protest t test against A hat Int they thc believed tr tr- h he bt lie e e rates for fir lIn unless J they thov di dil l. l tho the rate would continue indefinitely and th the shipper bo bl the thc loser Tariff schedules were attacked by the speaker Ho lie said that th they thoy r were wre always ah fix lix lived d to suit uit the eastern manufacturer heretofore anti and that the thc live li stock producer producer pro pro- ducer and anti farmer was ns never thou thought ht of H I r expect a revision of the tariff huitT probably after tho the next election he be continued ll I anti and and I wi wish h to emphasize the tho importance of the tho live stock toek producers pro pro- ranking making themselves heard J by y congress when such revision ia is undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken anti and insist that our interests be bc protected 4 |