McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
DISEASES OF CATTLE.
visions OF the tleuro-Pneumonia Bill
Finally. Passed by the Senate.

AS amended and passed by the sem
ate, the bill providing for the establishment
OF bureau Of animal industry and the eX-
tirpation of contagious cattle diseases, pro-
vides that the commissioner of agriculture
shall organize in his department bureau
OF animal Industry with a chief, who shall
be q competent veterinary surgeon, and
who shall investigate and report the condi-
ton Of domestic animals in the United
states and the causes of contagious, infec-
tons and communicable diseases among
them. He shall also collect such other in
formation on the subject as may be Valua-
BILE to the agricultural and commercial in
terests of the United States. For the pur-
pose OF the bureau the com missioner Of
agriculture is authorized to employ q force
not to exceed twenty persons at any
one time. This commissioner is to ap-
point two competent agents, who shall be
practical stock raisers or men experienced
in live stock transactions, who shall report
| the best manner Of transporting and caring
| for animals, and means to be adopted to
suppress and extirpate pleuro- pneumonia
and other dangerous contagious or com nu-
| nicable diseases. The compensation OF
such agents shall be fixed at $40 per day.
| The commissioner is to prepare, as early as
| possible, such rules and regulations as may
| be necessary to extirpate the disease named.
| and certify the same to the executive au-
thority Of each state and territory, and in
wife their co operation in the execution of
| the act OF congress. When the rules, etc.,
shall have been accepted by such executive
authority, the commissioner may expend
| in the state accepting rules, etc., the mo-
ney necessary for the purpose OF inyestiga-
ton contemplated by this act, and such dis
| infection and quarantine measure as are
necessary to prevent she spread of the dis
eases from one state or territory into an
other. In order to promote the eXporta-
| ton of live stock, special investigation as
| to existing contagious diseases are to be
made along the line of the United States and
| foreign countries, and along transportation
lines from all parts of the United States TO
| the ports from which cattle are exported
and reports made to the secretary of the
| treasury, who shall CO. operate with the
| state and municipal authorities, corpora
| lions and persons engaged in the transpor-
tation of neat cattle by land or water, in
establishing methods for The safe convey
ance of cattle and preventing the spread of
| disease. The secretary of the treasury is
authorized to take such steps as may be
| necessary. not inconsistent with this act,
| 10 prevent the expectation Of cattle affected
with any contagious diseases, especially
| euro-pneumOnla.
Transportation companies are forbidden
| to transport cattle with any contagious dis
eases from one state or territory TO another;
| but so-caIled splenetic or Texas fever is
excepted from the category of cOmmunica-
BILE diseases, so far as regards traDsporta-
! ton of cattle to market is cor cernPd. Vio-
| ations Of this act by railroad companies or
vessels is declared a msdemeanor on the
part OF the manager or captain. and punish
able by fine not to exceed So, 900 or i'm
prisonment not to exceed one year, or both
1t is made the duty of the United States
district attorney 10 prosecute such cases.
The sum appropriated for the purposes OF
the act is S 80, 600, instead of $3.50, 0C0, as
appropriated by the house.