Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-16
The Cattle Plague .

WARRINGTON, Feb. 15.-The secretary Of
the treasury to. day sent to senate the manu-.
script OF the report of the commission on
the cattle plague. 1t is very voluminous
document, covering hundreds Of pages Of
foolscap, and it Is also most exhaustive his.
tory Of the plague and consideration OF its
causes and treatment for the extinction of this
plague. The commission consider it neces.
sary that the authority entrusted with that
work should be clothed with the following
powers by law: To abolish or regulate mar
kets and store cattle indemnifed; to prohibit
all exposure of cattle on the highways, or In
insecure fenced PLACES in inflicted districts, or
of suspected cattle on q lot adjoining one oc-
cupied by healthy cattle or bordering on q
highway; to prohibit the pasturage OF more
than one herd on the pasture, unless under
special license; to dlsinfect all premises, fod-
der and other articles that have been presumably
exposed to Infection; to institute and enforce
such minor rules as shall be demanded by the
peculiar conditions of particular cases in the
infected districts; to enjoin the slaughter at
the fat market In the infected districts of all
cattle entering those markets; fat cattle, for
slaughter elsewhere, can be obtained at a
bonded market; to prohibit all movement of
cattle in the districts except under special
license; to inspect all cattle In the suspected
districts; to slaughter all infected cattle, and
in exceptional cases those that have been ex-
posed to Infection; to have condemned cattle
appraised and owners literally Unidentified.
In order to carry ont those suggestions the
commission recommend a liberal appropria-
ton by congress, be disbursed by some desig-
mated federal officer. In case the work is dele
gated to different states, the commission ad.
wise that liberal appropriation be made from
the federal exchequer, sufficient to cover the
greater part of the outlay, and this be paid
over to the executive of the infected state, OF
an approved veterinary sanitary organization,
designated for the purpose. The commission
consisted of James Law and J. Sanders
The president to day transmitted to the SEN
ate report of the commissioners appointed
by the secretary of the treasury to report on
the lung plague of cattle. The commission.
ers, after giving an exhaustive history Of the
disease, reached the conclusion that The IN
varying absence of lung plague, apart from
contagion, Is perfect guarantee it can be
permanently eradicated, and maintain that In
every instance where q nation has stamped out
the infection no new cases appeared until
there had been another importation of INFECTED
stock. A long delay in stamping out the in
lection in the United States, the report says,
means an extension of it to our open cattle
ranges and the impossibility of stamping it
out, with the near prospect of a general extern
sion of the plague, and the yearly sacrifice of
ten and scores of millions of dollars to its
Unsuitable craving, to say nothing of the con-
tinued incubation of the foreign market. To
delay the extinction, which is now In our
power, savors q criminality.