The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-01-25
BOZEMAN, NJ T., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Is, 1888
WASHINGTON NOTES.

and made some sensational charges
against the management of the bureau
Of animal industry and its chief. Dr. Sal
mon, the government expert in cattle
diseases. They said that the trouble
with DR.. Salmon was as an executive and
not as scientific man. They believed
him to be a gentleman of learning and
ability in his line, but totally unfit to
administer the affairs or sustain the
responsibilities intrusted to him. The
machinery of the bureau of animal in
dustry was very badly organized. The
law was weak in some respects and
needed amendment, but the greatest de-
feet was IN the executive administration
and the incompetence of the men EN-.
ployed.
Professor Wilson, who made the prin.
| cipal charges, said that the officials of
that bureau could do nothing at all
| without the cooperation of the author.
tiles of the several states, and instead of
working in harmony with them they
were jealous, antagonistic and malicious.
He charged that NJ. R. Trumbower, the
chief inspector at Chicago, was an in
ebriate, dishonest, and had been con-
| victed of vile practices in Missouri. The
Illinois livestock commission had pro-
tested against the appointment and the
retention of Trumbower, but he was con-
tinued till April last, when he was trans
ferred to Baltimore, where he continued
his dissipation to such an extent as to
make him entirely worthless as an
official. Before he was removed from
Chicago, two officers of the Illinois COM
mission wrote to DIR. Salmon at WASH
| ington asking him to send someone to
| Chicago who could keep sober long
enough for them TO consult with him,
but no notice was taken of their COM
munication.
The bureau of animal industry, DR..
Wilson charged, was extravagantly
managed. There was great waste of
money and very little done. The appro-
prlations of congress for the suppression
Of diseases among cattle were wasted In
paying. large salaries and useless ex.
pensesi and criminal negligence prevail
ed. For example the inspectors at Chi
eago quarantincd l, ,2l7 cattle last wear in
357 stables at q cost of 1915 per head
At the same time the Illinois state toard
with three less men, quarantined 1912
cattle in over seven thousand stables at
cost of less than 10 cents a head. This
was largely owing 10 the drunkenness Of
the chief inspector. He ordered his
men tc report to him before taking action
when diseased cattle were discovered
and it was often the case that he was SC
drunk that the inspectors could not find
him for several days at time.
| DR.. Wilson charged also that Trum
bower endeavored to drive the pleuro
pneumonia into the Chicago stock yardl
out OF revenge for the opposition hi
found their and the contempt in whic!
he was held by the stock yards people
On the other hand, on the north side
he endeavored to conceal the existence
of pleuro pneumonia, where its exist
ence was well known. The Illinoil
board killed. $3.50 diseased cattle at q COS
of $7l ,230, while the bureau of animal
industry there killed only $40 at cost
of $47,230 Ofthis Sl6,777 was paid fol
the cattle that were killed AMI $780,
for salaries.
The gentlemen urged the passage o
; Senator Palmer's bill, now under con
. sideration by the senate committee ol
, agriculture, because the present law /
, insufficient, imperfect and clumsy. Tn
officers of the bureau of animal industr
} have no authority to enter premise
, anywhere or to quarantine or to kill dis
: eased animals except with the consen
and the cooperation Of the state author
: tiles. The execution of the present la,
cannot be and is not efficiently conduct
0 ed by au over-worked bureau operate
1 from Washington by a veterinarian il
: stead of by a competent commission {
r practical men in the field. The executio
: by sub. bureaus is expensive as well Q
inefficient, and it has been proved ths
it costs as much to keep it up as it doe
r, for slaughtered cattle. Congress can an
= will place the matter in the hands of
E commission chosen by the presiden
provided it is not given to sub-burea
\ !, of sub department of an executive d,
partment OF the government. The grea
e cattle industry of the nation, representa-
oi in cattle alone an investment of SON
~ 81, zoe, ,OO0, 900, ought 80 have dire
a. voice and participate in the managemel
Q: Of the work of stamping out the disea
n. NJ which threaten to destroy them.
IN ~
" The wool men will get very little co
sideration in congress. They called
meeting of wool-growers and manuf:
turers 20 meet here last week for tt
purpose of agreeing upon some basis I
| q iCuutbioh vi uuLlCo Oh lllc INV Ill
d, manufactured product which should
" to the common good and for the bene
'st of the public. In other words, recogn
ur ing the fact that the duty on wool a
~ woolen goods must be reduced they we
he encouraged by members of the comm
OF tee of ways and means to select t
method in which it should be done,
l.. that no ill-considered action should
jure the industry. They came, and, af
. a weeks discussion. decided that t
duty should not be cut down, but
creased about 10 per cent all around
wool and all articles made from it. II
question whether anything can be dc
with the wool schedule of the custo
laws, for the democrats of Ohio, Pei
sylvania, and some of tine other sta
: will vote to defeat any revision or
duction of duties, but the wool grow
j and manufacturerswill have less sy
pathy and consideration alter the rest
of last weeks meeting.