Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-03-20
ANIMAL INDUSTRY.
a Bureau to be Established Providing
Means for Suppression of Con-
tagious Cattle Diseases.


AsHlNGToS, March IS The House Com.
mittee on Agriculture to-day instructed
Representative Hatch to report fayorably
Dill prepared by him amendatory of the
act establishing bureau of animal indus.
Try, and providing means for the suppress.
sion Of contagious diseases ah,ong cattle.
Inc limit of twenty persons as the number
OF employees to be allowed in the Bureau Of
animal Industry is removed, and the mum.
Der Is lett discretionary with the Commits
Sioner If Agriculture, The chief amend.
ment to the bill is in section 3, which re.
rates to the suppression of contagious and
infectious diseases, The section, as
amended, is as follows:
section g. That II shall be the duty of the
,yu'Hltsloher OF AgrlCuliur to prepare sucb
fucs ana regulations as he may deem neccs.
sary iorthe speedy and ofectual Suppression
and e1trpation of said diseases, ami to Ger
Wy such rules and regulations 10 the execu
1--we authority OF each state and Territory
and invite said au' horites to co operate In the
execution ana enforcement OF this act
Whenever the plans and methods of The
commissioner Of Agriculture shall be ac
ccptcd by any state or Territory In which
pleuro pneuihonia or other contagious, infec
uohs or communicable disease is declared to
exist, and whenever the Governor OF state
or other properly constituted authorities
SIGNIFY their readiness TO cooperate for the
extinction OF any contagious, or communica
ble disease IN conformity with the provis
IONS OF this act, the Commissioned
of Agriculture is hereby authorized to ex.
pend so much of the money appropriated by
thls act as may be necessary in such invest;
ghtons, IN paying Tor the animals II Is deemed
necessary TO slaughter as hereinafter provid
ed,ant IN such disnfcCton and other means OF
projection as may he necessary to extrpute
the disease, provided that the Commissioner
OF agriculture shall cause special invpStiga-
tons to be made AS to the existence of peu
ro-pnellm0nia. foot ana mouth diseases and
flndcfpcst in any part OF the United states
where he may have reason to suspect then
existence aud upOn the discovery Of any Of
those diseases the Commissioner of Agrt
culturt, with the consent. approval OF
cooperation Of. the Governor or Other
properly constituted authority OF the State
where such disease may be found, shall cause
the appraisal Of the animal or animals af
fected with or that have beca exposed to
such disease, and under the laws of the State,
providing for cOndcmning private property
Tor public use, shall cause the same to be de
strOycd and pay the owner not to exceed
three -iourths of such amount us tho apprais'
ors may determine TO have been the value be.
fore being diseas dor exposed out of the
purpose. Provided further, that he shall not
pay move than SlG0 for any animal with pedi
gree recorded or rCCOrdable IN the recOg
nllCd nerd books OF the breed
TO which II may belong, nor more
than $50 for an animal not pedi.
greed, aud that in no case shall COmncnsaton
he allowed for any animal slaughtered under
tie provisions OF this act that may have con.
tractcd or have been exposed to such disease
IN foreign country, nor shall compensation
be allowed to the owner of an animal where
by reasonable dilgt nee he could have pre-.
vented his animals from becoming exposed /
and provided, further, that whenever a state
or Terri tory in any section OF which a
contagious or infectious disease exists
which the commissioner of agriculture
has declared to be dangerous to the animal
industees of the Nation fails to make pro.
V!sons iorIts CNtirpatiou, or to co operate
with the plars of the commissioner OF Agri'
culture for the cNtirp ton OF such dlScase,
the Pres dent OF the United states, on the pre-
scltatlun of the facts by the commissioner
of Agriculture, shall be authorized to declare
in quarantine the said State or Territory, or
such part of sad state or Territory as he
may deem dangerous to the an maj INDUS.
tres OF the country and to regulate or pro.
hibt the transportation of cattle out OF SAID
state, Territory or district
The act is amended so as to transfer the
duty of guards against these diseases in
the District of Columbia from the District
Commissioners to the Commissioner of Ag-
riculture Ii is further amended so as to
allow a daytime inspection of places where
cattle are kept in the District of Columbia,
and to punish by fine and imprisonment
any person who endeavorS to prevent such
inspection, and a similar penalty is fixed
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existence of any such disease on his premises
The bill makes an appropriation OF S25OOOO
to carry its provisions into effect