Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-04-30
THE pLEURO.PSEUMoNIA BILL.
Provisions of the Act aS Ii Finali
Passed the Senate.

Provisions of the Act as IL Finally
Passed the Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-As amended
and passed by the Senate the bill provid-
ing for the establishment of bureau of
animal industry and the extirpation OF
contagious cattle diseases, provides that
the Commissioner of Agriculture shall or
ganize in his department bureau OF ami
NAL industry, with chief, who shall be
competent veterinary surgeon, and who
shall investigate and report the condition
of domestic animals in the United States,
and the causes of contagious, infectious
and communicable diseases among them.
He shall collect such other information on
those subjects as may be valuable to the
agricultural and commercial interests of
the United States. For the purpose of the
bureau the Commissioner of Agriculture
is authorized to employ force not ex
ceeding twenty persons at any one time.
The commissioner is to appoint two com
petent agents, who shall be practical
stock-raisers, men experienced in COM
mercial transactions affecting live stock,
who shall report of the best manner of
transporting and caring for animals,
and the meaus TO be adopted to
suppress and extirpate pleuro pneumonia
and other dangerous or communicable
diseases. The compensation of such agents
is fixed at SO day. The commissioner
is to prepare, as early as possible, such
rules and regulations as may be necessary
to extirpate the diseases named, and GER
tify such rules, etc, to the executive
authoritY of each State and Territory, and
invite the cooperation OF such executive
authority in the execution of this act Of
Congress. When the rules, etc, shall
have been accepted by such executive
authority, the commissioner may eXpend
on the State so accepting so much money
as may be necessary for the purposes of
the investigation contemplated by this act,
and for such disinfection and quarantine
measures as may be necessary to prevent
the spread of the disease from one State
or Territory into another. In order to
promote the expectation of live stock a
| special investigation shall be made as to
l the existence of contagious disease along
| the dividing line between the United
| States and foreign countries, and along the
i transportation lines from all parts of the
United States to parts from which cattle
| are exported, and reports made to the
| Secretary of the Treasury, who shall CO.
/ operate with State and municipal au-
| thorities, corporations and persons en-
gagged in the transportation of neat cattle
by land or water in regulations fol
the safe conveyance OF cattle and pre-
II
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized tc
take such steps as may be necessary, MOI
inconsistent with this act, to prevent the
expectation of cattle affected with any
contagious disease, especially pleuro-pneu
monia. Transportation companies are for
hidden to transport cattle affected will
any contagious or communicable disease
from one State or location to another, bu
] so-ealled splenic Texas fever is excepted
so far as regards the transportation OF cat
tie to market. Violation of this act b,
railroad companies or vessels is declared ;
misdemeanor on the part of the manage
or captain, punishable by a fine not ex
ceeding 5000, or imprisonment not to ex
ceed one year, or both. 1t is made tn
duty of United States district-attorneys Il
prosecute these cases. The sum appr1
/ priated for the purposes OF the act /
S15O,000, instead of S250,000 as appro
priated by the House.