Show TO CHANGING TIME Deal With Matter MaUer of of st k In n Transit lIA N ION S c S J S Complaint ol 01 h a or of all au John J hn w IS Springer president and C CF S F Martin a for Cor the National Livestock association MO have addressed the tho following communIcation to SenatorE Senator I E O 0 Wolcott or of Colorado It 11 Is of especial Interest to stuck stock growers of Via ns as It deals with the matter of confinement In transit Dear are advised through newspaper the Senate corn com ott on Interstate commerce has de decided oldell to asic I the Senate to recommit the bill extending the he time for tor forthe the ot of live lIe stock In transit and that the committee Was influenced In its lis I b by the representations I made by the tho humane such I nn an extension of oC time would result In InI I cruelty cruelly to IC animals As president and secretary of the National Live Stock association renting more than head hend or of stock stockwith with nn an Invested of hallO that your committee will not take such action but that It wilt will recommend this amendment to see tion USG of oC the tho Statutes fur for Immediate passage on 01 this line were adopt adopted ell ed nt at the tho annual of oC our asso elation held lii In Fort Worth Tex last January also aho nt Ct the annual meeting oC f the rn Pacific Wool Wooi Grow ore association held In Boise CIt City Idaho on the and this association representing the sheep shoop Industry or of Oregon W ZIon tana Idaho Wyoming and Utah and at t the 0 annual meeting of the Texas Cattle Raisers held In Fort Worth on the Instant This lat tor is the largest local association In the world representing Jer er h head ad of stock We Ve are satisfied atall at atall all the annual meetings or of State a associations held In the tho West WeRl during the tho next few ew weeks resolutions of II a sImilar character will be adopted lOt You ou see sec by lois Ihla that the live Ile livestock stock Interests Wee west of the tho Missouri river are almost unanimously In favor of o the passage or at this amendment The opposition to this amendment cornea comes a iii most through humane societies In the East Enst who do not understand the conditions existing in the stock growing districts west or Of the MissourI river J East or of the Missouri river where cattle are arc raised almost almo t In dooryards and are tame and where they thc can be loaded and shipped to 0 an market within hours a law framed us ha we are asking this would be cruel croci but In time the Western Vestern country whore animals nr ar wild and hard to handle they go to seater Ier one da day lying around these water witter holes for Cor some time anti and filling up with water then they leave and grase away water sources source sometimes s for tor hours hour and tt it Is rarelY they return with withIn withIn In tort fort hours The They are accustomed to these conditions and In being de deprived deprived of water vater for Cor forty hours while In transit to maket would not be In inan any an way woy injUrious or cruel Another point In favor of our In iii th these se wild cattle the they have lIae to be prodded and punched with poles and frightened by the yells ells of cowboys until the are almost fright frightened cued ened to death lealh The same process has hasto Ins to be gone through In unloading and otter after the unloading they are so fright frightened ened that for tor hout the they will 11 neither drink nor eat Then the they have to be reloaded and taken ofT off the cars again and ond otter after reaching market they are oro In Ina a far worse condition than It If allowed to remain In the cars tort forty hours The transportation companies are arenow arenow now using cars with water troughs and hay racks and It if tho they were compelled to keep these troughs clean there would bp b no trouble tn in providing feed anti water vater for all animals while In transit |