Show ON PLEUROPNEUMONIA < oiniiiliK t Hi port Itrlncs Ip 1 n e I In Ch lu WABIIINOIOV Jan U In his speech jes rday on tho bill lo establish a Hureau of Auillli Industry Heprosenlativo Hatch Rlll id tho present law was inoflicicnt and in a equate lo Biippioss tlio sproid of pleuro Elgl moumoma I whicli if not controlled by ational le islalion would in a short time isolutely destioy tho valuo of tho cittlo ndustry iho danger could not bo over itimatcd I he loss in d illars and cents to ho people of Iho United States when tho fr st nun was fired at Sumlcr that ushered in tho rebellion was not greater than that hrcatcned bj tho outbreak of pleuro putu 101ill Proccc ill to tlio consideration of tho details of tho bill ho Raid that the din r consisted thielly in Iho lemoval of Iho stnctmns upon the Commissioner of Ae > riculuro as lo tho employment of force to enforce the Ian and in empowering tho yominissioner with the co operation of tho SIIIo authorities under the btato laws to UNULMS ANI > nisTio iKFferrtu OVTTIE rho right did not exist undei tho present aw tho Commissioner being ablo only to Iot i possession of tho infected cattle by pur ohnRo from tho owner and Homo States had prohibited tho Commissioner to outer for tho purpose of enforcing the law I was irovidcd in the pending bill that when a Htllto refused or neglected to operate wih the Conmnssionei tho President Hhoull declare that Stnto in ipiaranlmo mil prohibit tho transportation of catllo tot it McMillan of lonnessee iiKmnod whether n cow allUded with pleuro pneumonia was 1I0t worthless I Mr Hatch replied tlmt il waR worso than cless McMill in further inquired why if Iho cow was worse than useless tho treasury ould bo compelled to plY tho full nluo of tho animal bofoio it contracted tho iseasc Mr Hatch lephod hat this proiision was mned upon tho experience of tho most en Aliened eoverniiiouls in tho management manage-ment of disease for 113 jears I was BO oasv to concent tho existence of disease and so hard to detect it that compensation ti l must bu eicn to tho owners of infected cattle or all tho moiuij winch could l bo ipropnated would not Htiimp out the IIIHlIIHe TiE MINOHITI IIMOIIT 01 this lull sa > s the whole argument of tho Chicf of tho Hureau of nimal Industry is IIn elVort to LoiiMiico tho Nation and pirticu irlj Congnss lo whom ho appeals fora ariQ appropriation that there is but ono cmedy anil th it is tho total extirpation of tho disease by si uightor I such a BJ stem I to bo adopted ho would recommend tho langing of Hie namo of tho department from thai of tho Hiiroau of Vnimal Indus try to that of tho Hureau of llulchery for tho destruction of Domestic Annuals tho United btatos to bo in charge of tho corps of butcher bojs who would bo as well qual I iled for tho positions as tho present head of tho bmoan seems competent for Ins In I thlR recommendation tho chief aiUooatcs I tho vor absurd proposition that a liberal ulomuitj should bo paid tlio owners of ittlo to reporl cases of sickness because a onto indemmtj loads to tho secretion of tho iscase a new ftaturo in public ethics il L idot gl vlnch requires a premium I i lo bo paid men to prevent violations of tho law sulo fioiu tho legal question arguing as a matter of qnitj I would bo equally illogical for tho lovernmont to appropriate funds to pij irmors for the loss of their stock birdsand omll bj ejolones or anj oilier unforsooii anses bio mso such crops were Iho depend nco of the family Wo aro Ilrm in tho con iction that tins disoaso termed rnunorNLUMONi is IILOOD POISON Irignmting among oitllo in stables and tookjards nml wo neroo with tho opinion of ox Commissionor ot erioulturo Ijoring hut I il oin bo chocked by imarantining l in lile J 311 a pen well protected tields and that until trmebntlawH aro enforced lo protoct the attlo in stables and I Block jarils I and in ransportation and f or pro iding t hem w illi 1 iroper food and walor tho disease cannot bo extirimled andlho pnblio protected from Ii isoased meals and tho p usurious milk of lie infected cows Wo aro of tho opinion hat tlio disease is I not increasing but rather limmishmg as in Now York and lirooUwi vhoro stringent sanitary laws are enforced lolioving that tho thoorj of inoculalion has 1olovilU filIil produce Iho results and that hiuulitoring us I means to extirpate is cow mill and unwise wo aro opposul lo Iho ap mipriation askid by Iho Chief of Iho Hureau I fl 1 if Animal Industrj lo 1 bo expended ns lio iLiiiimunils in his report Ionding further debito llio Commiltio roso and tho HouHoadjournul |