The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-09
PLEURO.PNEUMONIA.
Ihe 1Sill Passes the senate Establishing .
Bureau of Animal Industry.

The 1siIl Passes the Senate Establishing .
Bureau of Animal Industry.
WASHINGTON, May las amended
and passed by the Senate, the bill providing
tor the establishment of a bun. eau of animal
industry and the %extirpatiOn of contagious
cattle diseases, provides hat the Commits
sioner of Agriculture shall organize in his
department q bureau of animal industry,
with a chief who shall be a competent vet
Urinary surgeon, and who shall investigate
and report upon the condition OF the do
nestle animals of the United States and the
causes Of the contagious and communicable
diseases among them. He shall also collect
such other information OH those subjects as
will be valuable 10 the agricultural and COM
mercial interests of the United States for
the purpose of the bureau. The Counts
siOner of Agriculture is authorized to EN-
plOy a force not exceeding twenty persons
at any one time. The Commissioner is to
appoint two competent agents. who shall be
practical stock ~raiserS, or men experienced
in commercial transactions affecting live
stock, who shall report the best manner of
transporting and caring for animals;
means to be adopted to suppress
pleurO-pneumunia and other dangerous or
communicable diseases. The compensation
of such agents to be fixed at ten dollars Il
day. The Commissioner is to prepare as
early as possible such rules ard regulations
As may be necessary to e~Xtirpate the disease;
name and certify such TO the executive
authority of each State and Territory, and
Invite the cooperation OF such executive
authority in the execution of the act of Con-
greSS. When the rules, etc, shall nave
been accepted by such executive authority,
the Commissioner may eXpend in the State
so accepting so much money as may be
necessary for the purpose of the inveStiga-
lions contemplated by the act, and for such
disinfectiOn and quarantine measures as
may be necessary To prevent the spread OF
disease from one State or Territory into
another. In order to promote expectation
of live stock, special investigation will be
made as to the existence of contagious
disease along tie dividing line between the
United States and foreign countries, and
along transportation lines from all parts of
the United States to parts from which
the cattle are exported, and reports
made to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, who Shall cooperate with
State and municipal authorities,
corporations and persons engaged i'll the
transportation of cattle by land or water in
establishing regulations for the safe ans
fer Of cattle and preventing the spread of
disease, and the Secretary Of the Treasury
is authorized to take such steps as may be
necessary, not inconsistent. TO prevent the
expectation of cattle affected with contag-
ious diseases. especially pleuro- pneumonia.
Transportation companies are forbidden to
transpor; cattle affected with any contagious
disease from one State or Territory to an
other. The so-called splenic or Texas fever
is excepted from the category of commune
cable diseases, SO far Us regard t~ranspOrta-
ton of cattle to market. Violations of the
act by railroad companies or vessels is de-
clared a misdemeanOr ION the part of the
manager, punishable by 4 fine not to exceed
) loco or imprisonment moi exceeding one
year, or both. 1t is made the duty of the
United States District Attorney to prosecute
the cases. The sum appropriated for the
purposes of the act is $50. 900, instead Of
S25O,OOO appropriated by the House.