The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-30
INo0ULAT7ON A FAILURE.

Commissioner OOIemAn's Reply TO . House
Resolution TOuehinE PieurO-PneumOniA
Ameng Cattle.
WARRINGTON, D. O., Dec. 27.-Chair-
man Hatch, OF the house commit
tee on agriculture, has received from
Commissioners Coleman . reply 70 q res
olution offered few days ago by Repre-
sentative SWinburne, Of New York, In
which the commissioner sets forth COM
prehensively the di&culties met In the
attempt to extirpate or to control the
pleu=o-pneumOnia scourge in the present
state of the law and with the machinery
at hand, and reinforces his recommends
tons previously made for more heroic
methods with additional arguments and
statement OF facts. The resolution seems
70 question the prevalence II not the ex-
isIence Of pleurO-pneum0nia and calls tor
full and explicit Information as to owner
ship and locality of infected herds,
the number Of animals which
have persisted and the steps taken
to stamp it out or confne the
contsRion. The commissioner at the
outset declared that some of the state
ments attributed % his report were not
contained in it,and proceeds 20 show that
the summary by the chief Of the bureau
OF animal industry Of the discoveries
made during the two years was errone-
ously assumed by Mr.. SWinburne 20 bs .
statement Of The condition Of affairs at
the moment the report was submitted.
The commissioners speaks OF the diff
Guilty In obtaining accurate information
a. TO the existence or prevalence Of the
disease, owing 20 the efforts
OF the owners OF infected
herds 70 conceal the disease. Continu-
| ing, he recommends emphAtically that
sufficient authority be given the depart
ment 70 eradicate the plague, or thAE the
work be left entirely % the state author
tiles. The department officers have no
| power to enforce quarantine regulations
except through state laws, and the
| efforts OF state and federal officials 70
work together In the matter have not met
with satisfactory results. AUv enforce
ment OF quarantine is very difficult as the
owners make on with infected animals
| surreptitiously IS soon a. they are found
| injected. He recommends that where
ever q diseased herd Il found the exposed
animals be slaughtered and the premises
disinfected and the owner compensated
/ fog the loss to which he Il subjected. Fol-
the protection OF the public, the only
remedy or safety, he thinks, lies In in
slant action upon the appearance Of the
/ 012S86Cs 1u0 COE4z4k481D1CI kAVSS n
| length the history Of the outbreak q
Chicago and vicinity, and the progress
Of the scourge despite quarantine and in
oculation He shows by reports from
agents Of the department oyer 400 animals
died OF were slaughtered between Sep
TENDER % and November 3S, 1886, in
consequence OF disease or exposure. dur
ing which time quarantine was in f0rce.
He says on November IS the slaughter
ing was begun ca q large stock In ordel
70 employ the dislilleTy stables IS eOou
a. possible. The figures given below
which show the proportion oa slaughtered
animals that were more OF less affected
by pleuro- pneumonis, are Of great In
teresc, because they demonstrated th<
sdVisAblllfy OF slaughtertng Al animell
exposed 70 this ConGsgIon. Many Of ne
affected cattle presented no symptoms o.
disease before siaaShteIIng, but the con
ofEien Of their lungs vas such as 70 make
Il certain that they were capable Of dis
seuinatiDg theCOHssRi0n fGR a indennsfe
period Ths t1nle referred 20 shows t1ai