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niodate you on old scores between us, but I think we do all we can 

 consistently with proper attention to the public business by postpon- 

 ing the hearing to the 3d of January. I have communicated with the 

 live-stock association at Denver and told them that that Avas the best 

 v/e could possibly do. No one has given any notice to appear, and if 

 there is no one here who wishes to be heard to-day we will adjourn the 

 full committee until the 3d of January, but the subcommittee will be 

 here subject to call. If anyone notifies the clerk of the committee that 

 he would like to be heard during the holidays, the clerk will summon 

 the subcommittee. 



The committee (at 12 o'clock meridian) adjourned until Thursday, 

 January 3, 1901, at 10.30 a. m. 



THURSDAY, January 3, 1901. 



The committee met at 10.30 a. m. 



Present: Senators Hansbrough (acting chairman), Warren, Foster, 

 Bate, and Heitfeld. 



Also, Hon. W. D. Hoard, president of the National Dairy Union; 

 C. Y. Knight, secretary of the National Dairy Union; H. C. Adams, 

 daily and food commissioner of Wisconsin; George L. Flanders, 

 assistant commissioner of agriculture of New York; James Hewes, 

 president of the Produce Exchange, Baltimore, and vice-president of 

 the National Dairy Union, of Maryland; W. A. Rogers, representing 

 the Agricultural Society of Northern New York; F. B. Richardson, 

 assistant commissioner of agriculture, fifth agricultural division, of 

 New York; S. B. Medairy, of Baltimore, representing dairy interests; 

 E. B. Norris, master of the State Grange of New York; Hon. Wm. 

 M. Springer, of Illinois, representing the National Livestock Associa- 

 tion; Frank M. Mathewson, president of the Oakdale Manufacturing 

 Company, of Providence, R. I.; Charles E. Schell, representing the 

 Ohio Butterine Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio; W. E. Miller, repre- 

 senting the Armour Packing Company, of Kansas City, Mo.; John F. 

 Gelke, representing Braun & Fitts, of Chicago, 111., and others. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Judge Springer will now be heard. 



STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM M. SPRINGEE. 



Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I 

 appear before you in behalf of the National Live Stock Association. 

 A list of the associations that compose the National Association is 

 printed in the hearings before the House Committee on Agriculture,, 

 which reported the pending bill, on pages 75 and 76. They number 

 126 associations in all, and comprise a majority of all the live stock 

 organizations now existing in this country, and they represent a capi- 

 tal of over $600,000,000. The association held a national convention 

 at Fort Worth, Tex., in January a year ago. Here is a book contain- 

 ing the proceedings of the convention at Fort Worth. 



Another national convention of the association will be held in Salt 

 Lake City, Utah, on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th of the present 

 month (January, 1901). 



The Fort Worth convention adopted a memorial to the Congress of 

 the United States, which is as follows: 



