Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-23
JOHN BULL WILLING.
English Actions Encourage the Belief
That Britain May
ADMIT OUR LIVE STOCK FREELY.
Restrictions on American Cattle Removed
if Found Healthy.
QUARANTINE STATIONS DESIGNATED

WASHINGTON, October 22.-Secretary
Rusk said to a reporter to-day that he was
receiving encouraging reports OF progress
from Mr.. j. II. Sanders. his special agent
in Great Britain, relative to the removal OF
British restrictions upon the importation OF
American live stock.
In recent report to the Secretary, Mr..
Sanders encloses excerpts from British
journals. which give, among other things,
the details o. the embargo recently placed
upon shipment Of Canadian cattle to Scot
land. The Secretary said that the English
account of the incident confirms
what he has always contended,
namely the difficulty of depending abso-
lutely upon single diagnosis in order to
determine whether symptoms of disease in
dicate the contagious or non-contagious
pleuro pneumonia. 1t was on this ground
that the Secretary concluded to adopt the
plan of co-inspection by representatives, of
his own department with the British Inspec-
tor.
FEARS OF DISEASED CATTLE.
The Secretary also said that be thought
the action of the Bsitish authorities in the
Dundee case rather justified the inference
that the restrictions imposed and main
tanned on American cattle bv the British
Government are due less to any spirit of un-
iriendliness which might lead to discrimina-
tions against the United States than to a
positive lear lest through any lack of their
official vigilance danger to British cattle
might ensue, This naturally leads
him to the conclusion that comparatively
little difficulty will be experienced in secur-
ing the removal Of any restrictions discrim-
mating hetween American and Canadian
cattle lust so soon as the British authorities
can be thoroughly convinced of the immu-
nifty which American cattle now enjoy from
contagious pleuro pneumonia and Of the
ample powers vested in the Secretary Of
Agriculture to control and eradicate it
should any outbreak occur in the future.
The Secretary feels highly encouraged at
the present state of his efforts to remove re-
strictions upon American cattle.
QUARANTINE AT PITTsBURG.
The regulations prescribed by the Depart
ment of Agriculture for the inspection and
quarantine of meat cattle, sheep and other
ruminants and swine imported into the
United States designates the following
as import quarantine stations: Bos-
ton, New York, Baltimore, San
Diego, Brownsville, Paso Del Norte,
Eagle Pass, Lsrado, Nogalessi. BANGOR,
Vemont, Buffalo Greek, Niagara. Cape Vim
cent, Champlsin. Oswegatchie, Detroit,
Port Huron, Superior, Duluth, Puget
Sound. .,f .>.>as-r
The order and regulations issued by the
department for the inspection of cattle aud
sheep TOR export provide that the inspection
NAV be made at anv of the following stock
yards: Kansas City, Chicago. Buffalo, Pitts
burg, and the ;oliowing ports of export:
Boston, Charleston, New York. Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport
News. All cattle shipped from any OF the
aforesaid yards must be tagged before being
shipped to the ports of export. Cattle ar
riving at ports of export from other parts of
The United States will be tagged at said
ports.