The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-08
PLEURO-PNEUM0NIA.
Provisions of the Bill Passed by
the United States Senate.

As amended and passed by the Senate the
pleuro- pneumonia bill providing for the estab-
lishment of Bureau of Animal Industry and
the extirpation of contagious cattle diseases
provides that the Commissioner of Agriculture
shall organize in his department Bureau OF
animal industry, with chief who shall be a.
competent veterinary surgeon and who shall In
vestigate and report the condition of the domes-
tic animals of the United States and the causes
of contagious, infectious, and communicable
diseases among them. He shall also collect such
other information on those subjects as NAV be
valuable to the agricultural and commercial
interests OF the United States For the purposes
of the bureau the Commissioner OF Agriculture
is authorized TO employ force not to exceed
twenty persons at any one time. The Commits
sioner IL 10 appoint two competent agents, who
shall be practical stock-raisers men expe-
renced in commercial transactions affecting live
stock, who shall report the best manner of trans
porting and caring for animals and the means
to be adopted to suppress and eXt1rpate pleuro-
pneumonia and other dangerous contagious
communicable diseases. The compensation OF
such agents is fixed at SO per day. The COM
mission Is TO prepare as early as possible such
rules and regulations az may be necessary to
extirpate the diseases named, and certify such
rules, etc, TO the executive authority of each
State and Territory, and invite the cooperation
of such executive authority in the execution of
the act Of Congress. When the rules, etc,
shall have been accepted by such executive au-
thority, the commission may expend in the State
80 accepting so much money as shall be neces-
sary for the purposes of the Investigations con-
teInplateu by the act ana Tor Sucn ulSlntectlOn
and quarantine measures as may he neces-
sary TO prevent the spread OF disease from
one State or Territory into another. In order
TO promote the expectation of livestock, a
special investigation shall be made TO the
existence Of contagious dis ases along the di-
viding line between the United States and for
eign countries aud along the transportation
lines from all parts OF the United States to the
ports from which cattle are exported, and re-
ports made to the Secretary OF the Treasury.
who shall cooperate with the State and munich
pal authorities, corporations, and persons en-
gagged In the transportation OF neat cattle by
land or water, in establishing regulations for
the safe conveyance of cattle and preventing
the spread of disclose; and the Secretary of the
Treasury IL authorized to take such steps as
may be necessary, not inconsistent with the act,
TO prevent the expectation Of cattle affected
with any contagious disease, especially pleuro-
pneumonia.
Transportation comranics are forbidden TO
transport cattle affected with any contagious
communicable disease from one State or Terri
tory TO another, but the so-called splenetic or
Texas fever Ia excepted from the category of
communicable diseases far as regards the
transportation OF cattle to market Violations
of the act by railroad companies or vessels is
declared a misdemeanor on the part Of the man
ager captain, punishable by fine not to ex-
coed 50 600 or imprisonment not to exceed one
year, or both. 1t is made the duty of the United
States District Attorneys to prosecute cases.
The sum appropriated for the purposes of the
act IL $4,000 INSTEAD of $3.50, 900 approprat-
ed by the House,.