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Show STOCXMEN'S GREETING TO ROOSEVELT Chicago, Ills., Dec. 4. The fifth day of the International Livestock exposition attracted the greatest crowd ever assembled assem-bled at the Chicago stock yards, the pavilions, pens and yards being crowded j almost to their capacity. Governor Toole of Montana was among the spectators. spec-tators. ( The fat Hereford steer Woods Principal, Prin-cipal, to which the championship of the show was awarded yesterday, was sold today to A. G. Swenson of New i'ork for 50 cents a yound. i'he combination sale of Aberdeen-Angus breeding stock in the main pavilion this afternoon was most successful. Ninety-seven cattle sold at an average of $.144. per head. The convention today adopted resolutions resolu-tions voicing their satisfaction in the fact that a man who understands the cattle interests sits in the president's chair at Washington. The resolutions are as follows: "Whereas, The inscrutable will of the Divine Ruler of nations has seen fit to take from us the beloved and deeply lamented la-mented president, William McKinley, and l has elevated to this position Theodore j Roosevelt, who has taken the reins of ; government with a firm hand and has in his first public message to congress displayed a keen insight into the needs of the people and has voiced in vigorous tones the demands of the people for progress in the right direction, therefore be it "Resolved, That we send greeting to President Roosevelt, assuring him of the loyalty and support of the stockmen of the country in all his undertakings for the good of the people. We recognize in our new chief executive one who is familiar fa-miliar with he industry we represent, who has wielded a larier-- and branding iron and knows personally of the joys, the hardships and the fatigues of life on the ranch and range. The cowbov on the range and the stockman on the ranch all feel that in President Roosevelt the nation has a loyai. honest .-.nd fearless ruler and the livestock industry has a j friend at court in the person of "one who knows the needs and necessities of that industry." F. G. Hagenbarth of Idaho read a paper pa-per on the "Adulteration of Wool." and said that such adulteration deprived the wool-grower of a much enlarged market mar-ket and was therefore a material injury to his interests. He urged the passage by congress of a bill providing for th. inspection of woolen goods and shoddy and the proper stamping of the same, a fine of from $50 to $500 to be imposed for each violation of the law bv a manufacturer manu-facturer and from $100 to $1,000 for a dealer who buys and sells unstamped adulterated cloth. Gifford Pinchot. government forester, spoke of "The Grazing Problem in the Forest Reserves." He said there were certain places where the interests harmfully harm-fully affected by grazing in the forest reserves were so overwhelmingly great that grazing was out of the question, among others the Bull Run forest reserves re-serves in Oregon and the reserves in southern California, but there was a vast region in which nothing but reasonable regulation was acquired to meet the grazing business and to demonstrate that it might always, as it always should, be a help and not a hindrance to every other Interest in the community. Sterling Morton, ex-secretary of agriculture, agri-culture, read a paper entitled "The Inconsistency In-consistency of the Grout Bill," which provides for a tax upon butterine and oleomargarine. Professor Frederick V. Corville, botar.-i botar.-i 1st of the department of agriculture, ! spoke on "Poisonous Plants on the j Range." Resolutions were then presented to the convention and adopted as follows: That Arizona, and New Mexico be admitted ad-mitted to statehood. . That duties on hides be retained so long as the man who manufactures them into different articles is protected by the tariff. That by the treaty between this coun-'try coun-'try and Germany the latter country remove re-move the ban on American meats and that if the German government will appoint ap-point inspectors to send to this country, the National Livestock association will see to the paying of their salaries, providing pro-viding that meats bearing the stamps L of the inspectors be received into Germany Ger-many withou'. protest. That an interstate law for the prosecution prose-cution of horse thieves and cattle rustlers rust-lers be enacted. That the president appoint a commis sion to visit .England and work against the discrimination which Canadian cattlemen cat-tlemen seek for themselves. That buzzards be exterminated. That the efforts of the bureau of animal ani-mal industry, in seeking knowledge of bovine tuberculosis and to prevent the disease from spreading be endorsed. The only discussion over the resolutions resolu-tions was precipitated by the death sentence sen-tence asked to be passed on buzzards. The discussion was brief, however, and the assertion that the extermination of the carrion bird was a move in the direction di-rection of scientific advancement, resulted re-sulted in the passage of the resolution. At 1 p. m. a recess until tomorrow morning was taken. |