Show J n t A FRESH COMMISSIONER ti I It Commissioner Colman of lIthe DC gt f 1 partment of Agriculture in a letter to R4 I Governor Oglesby of Illinois a synopsis S M 11 1 f of which appears in THE HERALDS telegraphic r tele-graphic columns this I morning fairly 1 i 1 goes beside himself The pleuropneu f iW11 l mania quarantine having been raised in 9ii 4 I i I I Illinois and some infected stables haying i1J J hay-ing been reoccupied by cattle the Commissioner V j r Com-missioner proceeds to scold the Governor > J11i j I niost savagely The result will probably I tt1 1 be a reply from Oglesby in which he rN J t will inform the Commissioner that u lJ J f Illinois is a sovereign State that she i f it J can manage her internal affairs without Itf outside assistance and that r f she can S1i1 get along very well without the S S 1 interference of Mr Colmqn If Governor I c I Gover-nor Oglesby is the executive I f S t he is generally presumed to be and if t1ft f be entertaisfl the correct idea of the d fk L I dignity or his State the above will bei < f t I f ji J t t I 1 I the tenor of his letter to Colman and all the people will say amen i The Commissioner is making very rapid progress for a man claiming to e Jmocrat b The other day Jie ask d I Congress to give department authority author-ity to carry out the measures required re-quired for extirpating plenropneu monia untrammeled by State laws or State authorities just as if he could induce Democratic Congress a Democratic De-mocratic Administration to assent to to th proposition even if the Constitutional Constitu-tional way to such action could be clearly seen Mr Colman would do well to attend to his seeds and garden truck and let such matter as the propriety of the genera government going into a State to dea with a local cattle disease alone The States know best how they want such things managed and are the best judges of their ability to mannage cattle disease within their borders if they want pleuropneumonia or if they do not care to adopt effective measures for stampingfout the disease ic is none of the affair of Mr Colman or of the United States |