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Show ' Kress nullify exNtlns laws for the pre-j pre-j veti'ion of cruelty to animals In the , dlrtrlct. Should congress take sueh 't action the Washington Humane society so-ciety would bo without financial sup- S pt'r! Chief among the opponents of the aliiindo of the commissioners Is the An. n lean Humane association, an organization or-ganization whMi embraces humane societies throughout the country Li a letter to the Washington society , Piosidont Siillman of the American association rnys of the movement to transfer from congress to the olico the power to prosecute offenders that It is an "onen roiiiession of a weakness weak-ness and cowardice that is unworthy o( the oapltol of the United States." The seen tary of the San Francisco Anii-C'ruety society writes: "We are asionishrd lo learn of the attack upon your society In congress. I hope that there will he enough fair representatives anil senators to allow no lnterlere:ice with the law that Is so much lor the good of the community." STRONG PROTEST RECEIVED ' FROM HUMANE SOCIETIES Wasblrgton, March 10. The Washington Wash-ington Humane society a receiving letters Irom all psrls of tho United States protesting against the action of the commissioners of the District of Columbia in recommending that cou- i |