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Show THE ST. LOUIS CONTENTION. "Work of. the Cowboys in the Adjourned Ad-journed Session Yesterday Afternoon. St. Louis, November 23. The convention did not reconvene, till 3:45, when the chair announced the following committee on resolutions: reso-lutions: General Curtis, New York; B. B. Groom, Kentucky; H. C. Hooker, Arizona; Taf t, Ohio; John W. Simpson, Texas; Thomas F. Houston, Missouri; John Stoller, Kansas; Elmer Washburne, Illinois; Joseph Jennings, Utah: William L. Rynerson, New Mexico; H. M. Mundy, Republic of Mexico; Joseph Ballantyne, Idaho; J. H. Jackson, Wyoming, and A. C. Cleveland, Nevada. . ' There was a little breeze over the motion to increase the committee to sixteen in order to give Indian Territory representation, General Pleasant Porter being suggested as the representative of that Territory. This led to an effort to enlarge the committee to one from .each State and Territory, which was defeated, and then General Porter was added to the committee. The executive oommitte of the association made a report of their efforts toward PERFECTING A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION During the year, accompanying it with divers recommendations. The" report states that since its organization one year BffO the association hnq crown rnnirllw if.a members now numbering nearly 1,0C3, with 30 local organizations, 41 State and Territorial Terri-torial vice-presidents and 480 'members of the State and Territorial Executive Committee, Com-mittee, making a total of 1,521 active, interested inter-ested bona fide representatives, with a further fur-ther representation of 45,000,000 cattle, 10,: 000,000 horses and $2,000,000,000 capital. The National Cattle and Horse Growers' Association is recognized as the most powerful, power-ful, wealthy and influential organization of the kind in the world. The report recommends recom-mends the establishment of a National Bureau of Animal Industry and in connection connec-tion with the Agricultural Department says: "That the bureau is right in some things and wrong in others, cannot be denied, but declining to take issue on either side, we beg to suggest that the province of this association as-sociation lies in a moderate, conservative and united effort to cultivate a proper recognition recogni-tion and encouragement of the things that are right in the policy of the bureau, and to correct as far as possible the wrong administration of its affairs." A united and immediate appeal to the National Na-tional Government is recommended for the enactment of such laws as will enable cattlemen cat-tlemen - TO PPEVEST THE INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE And to quickly and effectively eradicate it, should it develop. The report suggests an enlargement of the powers of the Board of Animal Industry, even to the point of empowering em-powering its agents to buy and destroy afflicted af-flicted cattle, and not confine its efforts simply sim-ply to quarantining. , The committee on credentials reported 888 delegates entitled to seats, among whom are forty-one local associations each entitled to three votes. ' - The chair announced as the committee to meet with rival associations and to endeavor to form a coalition: John L. Routt, of Colorado; Col-orado; M. M. Dunham, Illinois; Ex-Senator Dorsey, New Mexico; John M. Simpson, Texas; N. B. A. Mason, Nevada. To this R. D. Hunter, president of the association,-was added. ' - The convention then adjourned until 10 o'clock to morrow. THE CATTLE MEN AT WQBK TO-DAY. St. Louis, November 24. The convention of National Cattle and Horse Grower's Association Asso-ciation was called to order to-day by ex-Governor ex-Governor Routt, of Colorado. - Elmer B. Washburn read a paper on national na-tional legislation on THE SUBJECT OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. The speaker suggested the appointment of a national committee to foster proper national legislation to proteot the cattle industry in all of its branches, and Irus Coy, of Chicago, read a paper on the same subject. Speaking for the Exchange, he expressed decided opposition op-position to the animal industry bill, as calculated to create a panio in the cattle industry instead of lasting benefits, ben-efits, inasmuch as the industry is practically at the mercy of the veterinarians given to sensational reports of the existence of pleuro-pneumonia, when nothing more dangerous dan-gerous than lung fever, the result of overdriving, over-driving, is in sight. The speaker cited several sev-eral instances of far-reaching and most disastrous dis-astrous panics created by the :, . STUPIDITY OF SO-CALLED GOVERNMENT EXPERTS. He asserted that there never had been west of the Alleghany Mountains a case of that form of pleuro-pneumonia which ravaged Europe and Australia. Has anyone heard of a case of pleuro-pneumonia, since Congress Con-gress adjourned? asked the speaker. Coy proposed no remedy other than a recommendation for active measures, such as the destruction at Government expense of diseased cattle, should any develop. He was particularly severe on the sonsational reports re-ports set afloat by interested veterinarians and circulated by the press, the result being onerous restrictions upon the importation of American beef by foreign countries. The reading of the paper closed, the session. ses-sion. Adjoined till to-morrow. |