The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-26
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WASHINGTON, February 25.-The
House committee on Territories dis
cussed the Oklahoma Territory bill to-
day and appointed subcommittee to
examine the treaties made with the
Indian tribes with view of ascertaining
If there would be any conflict between
the treaty provisions and the proposed
legislation. Representative Sal.burn. to
whom. all matters relating to cattle
fever in the western States and Texas
fever or cattle plague in Southern
States, were referred by the House COM
mittee on agriculture, has made re-
port on the subject in which he makes
thorough scientific review of the ques-
ton. He says the condition of
infected cattle and the symptoms BE-
fore death. com bined with the appear
ances OF the animal after death, all lead
him to the belief that there is strong
analogy between the c5o,era in
he human race and the Sc
called Texas pague In cattle IN
the manner of its mode of propagation
and spread among cattle, as we'll as the
very many conditions and symptoms in
common with yellow fever. 1t would
seem that the disease, ike cholera, is
spread by the excavations of inherited
cattle in the course of transportation,
and that the cattle which have been ap-
parently free from disease have pos
sessed germs which they develop in the
course of transportation and which
have been received by and
infected other cattle Should this be
true, the report says Inc remedy would
be very simple and may be made effec-
tual by an efficient quarantining of all
disc sed cattle or that have been ex-
posed to the disease. In this case. toe
board fence separating the well from
the sick would be sufficient preventa-
tive.
DR.. Swinburn expresses the opinion
that the infected northern or western
cattle do not transmit the disease one to
the other. He recommends an appro
priation for scientific commission to in
yestigate the plague and discover, if
possible, its cause. He also recon-
mends the enactment of a law, requir-
ing the transportation of cattle lin cars
or boats, constructed for the
purpose in which the comfort of
cattle could be secured and over
crowding prevented" and. that all
railroad and steamboat companies en-
gagged in such traffic be required to pro-
vide proper yards and stated distances
where the cattle could be unloaded and
supplied with pure water and good food.
and that at such points the cars or
boats engaged in such transportation
| be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.
IL is further recommended that on the
the appearance of the disease among
cattle, either in infected sections or
L. -, @f
portation, the system of strict quaran
tine be established, and that no infected
cattle, or cattle exposed to infection, be
permitted to leave the quarantine or be
offered for sale within forty days, or I'M
I'll the extreme period of Incubation has
expired.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was at
tended by all the members except
Secretary Whitney The question of
making some reparation TO the Chinese
residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming,
for the losses sustained by them in the
riots there last fall, was again con-
sidered. II probable that the matter
will be brought to the attention of Con-
gress with recommendation that the
sufferers be recompensed for their
losses.
Mr.. Carter, Hawaiian minister, said
to-day in regard to the statement
furnished to the ways and means COM
mlttee by Mr.. John Searles, Jr., about
the Hawaiian treaty, that il is nearly
four years since Searles visited
Hawaii and that the report which
he then signed, with the other two
commissioners was considered very
favorable to The treaty and was SO men
toned by Secretary Folger in his annual
report of 1888. Minister Carter said
that the statement that the duties
RENTED would pay for the exports to
Hawaii might be made in regard to our
trade with almost any other country
One might as we'll say the duties remit
ted by the United States on coffee
would pay for all American exports to
Brazil. One nigh. as well say
that in any bargain. he had
made a gift by not charging
more than he had charged. He
added that the counter statement
would shortly be made b5fore the ways
and means committee by his couns-l.
He regarded the attack upon the treaty
as the outgrowth of business jealousy
between the refiners of New York and
San Francisco.
The amount of silver dollars in the
Treasury, after deducting silver certif-
Gates in circulation, February %, WAS
$50, 587 ,546 a compared with $67, 627, :
$40 In the Treasury, July 81, 1885.
The House committee on Territories
has directed an adverse report to be
made on Representative Townshend's
bill to organize the entire Indian Terri.
tory into the Territory of Oklahama.