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Show National Live Stock Convention. The National Live Stock convention convened in Kansas City, Jan. 13 to 16. The first session was very slimly attended, at-tended, not more than a dozen people being In the big theater when the meeting was called to order. President Presi-dent Springer in his annual address said that the stockmen of the United States had four billions of capital and could construct and operate a packing plant of their own if they had to. His : remarks were directed against the so-called so-called packers merger. ' Secretary Martin, in his annual report, re-port, referred to the anti-shoddy bill now before Congress. He declared that the free importation of shoddy makes it possible for the manufacturers manufac-turers of snide clothing to sell a $3.00 suit for $15 to the unsuspecting American purchaser. This bill Is asking ask-ing both for the protection of American Ameri-can wool growers and for the protection protec-tion of consumers. The tax to be laid on the imported shoddy is only one-tenth one-tenth of a cent per pound, to enable a suitable inspection to be maintained. However, there is strong opposition to this bill from some of the clothing manufacturing centers. . . Senator Harris spoke on the Louisiana Lou-isiana Purchase Exposition. W. C. Bailey spoke on the "Angora Goat," in which he referred to the rapid development de-velopment of the goat industry In this country during the last three years. George F. Thompson read a paper on "Our Markets for Live Stock and Their Products." He said the home market was the one to be looked after the closest. He called attention to our expanding foreign market for beef and other meats, but said that we had powerful competitors in Denmark and some of the other foreign countries. There is great need for American breeding animals In Mexico and Argentina. Ar-gentina. ' ' A resolution was adopted requesting request-ing Congress to so amend the .Interstate .Inter-state commerce act that the commissioners commis-sioners would have power to enforce their own acts. Another resolution thanked the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture for the vigorous way in which it had stamped out the foot-and-mouth disease. Dr. W. H. Dalrymple read a paper on "Infectious Diseases," after which a resolution was adopted calling for the disinfection of all hides imported import-ed into the United States. William M. Springer, counsel for the association, made a report of the various va-rious bills he had helped or opposed in the interests of the stockmen. He declared that the output of oleomargarine oleomar-garine in Chicago during the past December was greater than for December Decem-ber of the previous, year, and expressed ex-pressed the conviction that the lack of coloring 'matter would not ultimately ulti-mately result In restricting the sale of that article. John H. Hobbs sent a paper in which he warned stockmen against diseases like rinderpest coming in from foreign countries. He pointed out the claimed fact that tuberculosis had been imported into this country in 1841 by a Dutch cow, and that the loss In a single year was $8,000,000. Some of the most Important work of the, convention was done In the discussion and passage of resolutions. resolu-tions. One of these urged the national nation-al government to take measures to secure se-cure markets for American meats in Manchuria and other parts of Asia. Another urged Congress to clothe the interstate commission with power to enforce its rulings. A third asked Congress to pass a law authorizing railroads to keep cattle in cars for 40 hours without unloading. Yet another an-other favored the bill introduced in Congress fo a board from the War Department to stimulate the. breeding breed-ing of horses along improved lines for cavalry service. A strong resolution resolu-tion against the proposed merger of packing plants was passed, and in connection con-nection with the same $7,500 was subscribed sub-scribed to further a bill in Congress "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and combinations." com-binations." Members of the convention conven-tion said that should the merger be accomplished they would string packing-houses from "Chicago to -San Francisco." Other resolutions adopted adopt-ed were: Indorsing the policy of the Agricultural Department in its efforts to eradicate poisonous plants on the ranges; Indorsing the .Tongue pure-food pure-food bill now before Congress; asking the Agricultural Department to repeal the forest exclusion order and protesting protest-ing against the government setting aside tracts of land for game preserves pre-serves and asking the transference of the administration of the affairs of the forest reserves to the Department of Agriculture. Officers elected for the following year are: President, John W. Springer, Denver; Secretary, Chas. F. Martin Denver; treasurer, Geo. L. Goulding, Denver. Farmers' Review. |