Show I IA I A LIVE STOCK DISEASES I XI j 1 i t i I A Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Writes to Its 1 I I It President Stringer t i i t I dl 1 il I jf I Denver Colo May 4J W kprlnc UvcStock i or president of Ihe National a 4 4 L association today received a lottei I 1 I from Jam wilson secretary of agrl I I volt 1 culture which In I in part an follow I z I urn In receipt of your letter of the 8I 16th Intl enclosing I resolutions I ot the I Ij Jl I I National IheStock ans oolnllon which 1i f you forwarded b > direction of commit I z I tee The first oC then resolutions I I provides 1t k t M I vides that u I flea toic rot on rh rid ro-t i appointed to 111tnuller with the dlnrt I I ment of a at IN11hington In I nl IF i perfecting egulatlons to prevent the al Introduction or rlnderpt foot and rel I mouth dl Into the United States I a In connectlun with this subject I r I 11 I would ate that this deparlifireenlbi main 4 taln quarantine Blot Ions for tho d it tentlon Inspection and uarantlno of ei cattle ported from beyond I the sand s-and also maintains Inspection Along the a I border lines etwm 1 the Unltd mat a anti Mexico Na serious Contagious dls at eases have been brought Into this I timn tit I try since thin ln ji < etlon and qunrnntlno 1 16 1 was HtabllAhed under the directions of this department and the IllonfillrO I I adopted seems to bo adequate for the h IU rfpse If The resolution to l to tho effect that I 11 a committee < of three be ap olnted e to Ice before the dt ftrtimnt of aerl culture the Importance of proper retru III I lations to prevent the in profierbreg of 0 unsound and physically unfit Dublin 4 11 Into the United Stifles It should i r course be understood that this ilepirt ment has no authority to make or enforce T atIll at Ill to pollI el force such regulation and that Etpef I I I cine legislation Must be Hicured fnm Cfie If Concrens before anything In this dlrec a lion cnn be undertaken I The third revolution ntklnc for the 41 modification nf section 438G of the law I ot the United States providing that animal a shall not bc Confined In cars for a longer ported than twentyelRht hours Is I a matter over which the department It it partment h an no control Such modlfl cation can only be secured by net t > f al 1 I ConKrcBS The people ot the United Still In the humane treatment oford t if mel have been very much Interested In thl taillto and It would probably ben it be-n dlmcult mAtter to obtain any mnill f ftcatlon of it Whether twentyelsht if hours to I Just the right period which IT should be Insisted upon Is I of course n open to dlscunston but there can be no 0 doubt that animals are frequently and a probably regularly confined In stock I I cars without food water or ret for periods which are absolutely without any justification I |