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Show MARKED' M ATM j On Forest Reserve, Sheep-men Sheep-men Ask for Justice in Range Control. Pocalello. Idaho. Jan. 15. The second sec-ond day's session of the convention of the National Wool Growers' assocta- ! tlon In this city was marked by an- I other attack on the forest reserve. E. I J. Gosney of Flagstaff, Ariz., in an address ad-dress this afternoon, declared that I justice to the sheep men of the west demands a change In the present methods meth-ods of administrating range control, i "The power of the forest service is three fold legislative, executive and ' judicial," said he. I 'They make their own laws or rules, j dccldo our rights and enforce their, own decrees. In the judicial function I of the service lies the greatest danger. I It passes upon our rights involving ' thousands of dollars, often without : evidence save reports from forest cm- i ployes, whose unreliability is a byword in the west." Gosncy asserted that he could recite re-cite numerous instances in his own state where favoritism, prejudice and graft have entered In the administration administra-tion of the national forests. Continuing, he said: "A wrong-doer within the ranks of the navy or military service is tried ! before a court-martial, which has the. ' power to summon and examine witnesses wit-nesses as in other courts, but with this Army ' of the forest service ileal ins directly ' with the rights of th3 ' people, no such pow- cr is given. A limit must be placed j upon the possibilities of the wrongdoer wrong-doer within the forest service as well , as elsewhere in the government service." ser-vice." Charles F. Winter, of Encampment, Wyo., spoke on the necessity of maintaining- the existing tariff on wool, declaring de-claring that the Industry cannot stand anv reduction in present rates. Mayor Fred R. Reed, of Shoshone, Idahb, spoke briefly on Idaho Irrigation Irriga-tion and the opportunities presented in this state for an extension of the wool industry. John Clay of Chicago, enaorseu m Chicago wool storage plan. In course of his speech before the convention. Mr. Knollin said, in part; "I feel that we are now entering a nw and better era in the history of railroad management," said Mr. Knollin. Knol-lin. "and that, U is our Christian duty to be charitable to our friends, the lallroad men. They have found 't cheapor to glvo good service than to pay damage claims and this, I think, should suggest to us that we can better bet-ter afford to pay a reasonable freight rate for good service than a sma'l rate for poor service. "Provided we could obtain a reduction reduc-tion of 25 per cent of present shfep lates. It would mean an average saving sav-ing of about 15 cents per nead, whPe holding sheep at shipping stations for a few days waiting for cars, a bad run and other hardships that have teen imposed upon us, wiU cause a loss of a dollar a head. And such losses eliminate pr6fits to the financial finan-cial ruin of those engaged in the business. bus-iness. "I believe the tonnage system m general operation on our railroads is tl.e main cauec of bad runs. Whilo the cars are better than those formerly former-ly used, I believe there can bo and will be still greater improvement. The present cars will not carry the weight ot the average of other commodities, and, therefore, make '.sheep more expensive ex-pensive to handle. This is the rail-load rail-load companies' contention. Therefore, There-fore, I think longer cars should be lullt. "While I firmly believe the rates on wool are too high, 1 am not prepared to prove the statement with figures. I base my judgment on these facts: Wool is moved from west to east at a tmio of year when traffic is lightest; it is not a perishable product and It need not be necessarily rushed through to its destiuation and. excepting ex-cepting from fire, there is no damage caused to wool by wrecks." Mr. Knollin read letters from a number of commission firms in which there was general agreement that there are very few damage claims for wool in transit and that the rate is higher than the service and the liabilities liabil-ities of the carriers justify. Contending that any change In the existing protection tariff on wool would work great Injury to the industry in America. C. H. Hardin -of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, former president of the National Association of Wool Growers, compared com-pared the recent hearings before the house committee on tariff revision to a minstrel show, with soino of the congressmen as end men. He took exception ex-ception to a suggestion of eastern Vice President Wing in a speech yesterday regarding the wool tariff, and argued that the existing tariff Is not responsible respon-sible for the pit-vailing high prices of manufactured woolen goods. Tomorrow the convention will elect offlcprs ami select the place of meeting for next year. S |