652 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



A Member: Don't you think that Senator Doran and all of us 

 fellows that have been in contact with him ought to be disinfected 

 before we go home? 



The Chair : I think the senator ought to have been disinfected 

 before he came here. 



Mr. Doran : I\Iy trouble is foot and mouth disease. 



The report of the committee on Resolutions was read by Chair- 

 man Brockway, and upon motion was adopted section by section. 

 The report as adopted is as follows: 



EESOLUTIONS. 



We, the delegates of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association, at 

 annual convention assembled, at Des Moines, Iowa, December 9, 1914, 

 congratulate the association on the continued loyalty and enthusiasm ol 

 its members, and the important service that it is rendering to the state 

 of Iowa. The association has been instrumental in securing for the 

 people of Iowa the return of the stockman's transportation, improved 

 railroad service, a reduction in the railroad rates in Iowa of from 18 to 

 50' per cent on live stock, a re-grouping of the Iowa-Chicago live stock 

 rates, greatly benefiting the shipper, improved service at the Chicago 

 stockyards, a feeding-in-transit rate on cattle and sheep; co-operating with 

 others, better water was secured at the Chicago stockyards, reducing the 

 shrinkage of cattle about 25 per cent; prevented a 10 per cent advance in 

 freight rates in 1910; establishing the office of Commerce Counsel in 

 Iowa; made a winning fight to retain a 75 per cent rate on feeding cattle 

 and sheep; obtained the adoption of a 16,000-pound minimum car for hogs, 

 and a 20,000-pound minimum car for cattle in Iowa. Has made a per- 

 sistent and so far successful fight to prevent a general increase in freight 

 rates. Able representatives have appeared before the state and national 

 law-making bodies to represent our interests. 



Measures that we have in the past endorsed by resolution; and that 

 were supported by our organization, have largely been adopted into law 

 and are now the settled policies, while time has proven that our opposition 

 to certain measures and practices was well grounded. 



We have repeatedly, by resolutions adopted, and by personal representa- 

 tion before congress, opposed the free and unlimited importation of cattle, 

 meats, hides, and grain, and urged upon congress the enactment of laws 

 that will protect the Iowa producer. Furthermore, we believe from the 

 information at hand that the present disastrous foot and mouth disease 

 can be attributed to the importation of infected hides that come to us 

 by the present open-door policies. Drastic inspection laws should be 

 adopted and rigidly enforced. We are opposed to the importation of live 

 stock and live stock products from countries which do not maintain the 

 same rigid inspection that we maintain. 



