862 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Violations of the act of March S, 1905, reported to the Department of Justice, pending or 

 disposed of during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1910 — Continued. 



Case 



No. 



199 



200 



201 

 202 

 203 



209 



214 



224 



228 

 229 

 231 

 232 

 251 



Defendant. 



Judicial district. 



Atchison, Topel<a 

 and Santa FeKy. 



Kansa City, Mexico 

 and Orient Ry. 



do 



do 



P. Marlvcy, H. E. 

 Hugties, and Mis- 

 souri Pacific Ry. 



T. J. Brown 



George W. Caldwell. 



Southern Railway. 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Chicago, Rock Is- 

 land and Pacific 



Ry. 



Oklahoma, western 

 district. 



Kansas 



Offense charged. 



Transportation of cattle from 

 area quarantined for sple- 

 netic fever to another State. 



do 



do do 



do do 



do Transportation and delivery 



; for shipment of cattle from 

 I area quarantined for scabies 

 to another State. 

 Driving cattle from area quar- 

 antined for splenetic fever 

 to another State. 

 ....do 



Missouri, 

 district, 



western 



Arkansas, 

 district. 



eastern 



South Carolina Transportation of cattle from 



area quarantined for sple- 

 netic fever to another State. 



do do 



do do 



do do 



do do 



Oklahoma, western do 



district. 



Status. 



Defendant Indicted; 

 pending. 



Suit filed; pending. 



• Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Plea of guilty en- 

 tered; fine of $100 

 and costs imposed. 



Defendant left juris- 

 diction; proceed- 

 ings for liis removal 

 pending. 



Defendant indicted; 

 pending. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



By far the greater number of prosecutions under the act of March 

 3, 1905, are brought against raihoad companies, as may be seen 

 by reference to the accompanying table, and most of these cases 

 involve the failure of the railroads to comply with the regulation 

 made and promulgated under the act permitting the interstate 

 transportation of cattle and sheep from quarantined areas to recog- 

 nized slaughtering centers for immediate slaughter, but requiring 

 that placards of a prescribed size and description shall be placed 

 and maintained during transit on the cars containing such shipments, 

 and that the waybills and other shipping memoranda pertaining to 

 such shipments shall be annotated in a prescribed manner. Such 

 shipments in many instances are transported over one or more 

 railroads besides the initial carrier before they reach their destina- 

 tion, such connecting carriers usually lying wholly without the State 

 or district quarantined. The cars and waybills in such cases, when 

 inspected by inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry at these 

 slaughtering centers, are usually in the hands of railroad companies 

 doing a terminal business. In this class belong a number of cases 

 recently prosecuted in the southern district of Ohio and the eastern 

 district of Missouri. 



In the southern district of Ohio proceedings were instituted in 

 three cases under the act of March 3, 1905, against the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Southwestern Railroad, in receiving in the State of Ohio, from 

 connecting railroads, and transporting shipments of sheep originating 

 in the State of Kentucky, which is quarantined for scabies in sheep. 

 A demurrer interposed by the defendant corporation was sustained 

 by the court solely on the ground that the shipments in question 

 were received by the defendant railroad at a point outside of the 

 quarantined State or district. The Government was unable to secure 



