The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
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WASHINGTON, Dec 14.-Senator Pad
dock of Nebraska has introduced a bill
amending the act for the establishment of
a bureau of animal industry, 10 prevent
the expectation of diseased cattle, and pro
vide means for the suppression and extir-
patton of pleuro-pneumonia and other con-
tagious diseases among domestic animals.
The bill is designed to promote the exRor-
tation of cattle and products of live stock,
to increase and facilitate the commerce in
cattle, and to remove the Instructions of
such commerce with foreign nations and
among the states occaSioned by the exist
ence of contagious diseases among meat
cattle. 1t amends sections /, ., !, D, Q, z, y
and 10.
Section 1 requires the secretary of agrl
culture to organize bureau OF animal in
dustry in his department, and appoint a
competent veterinary surgeon as chief
thereof, at salary of s., 900 year, whose
duty it shall be TO investigate and report
upon the condition of domestic animals IN
the United States, their protection and
use, and report the cause of infectious dis
eases among them, collect valuable data
and publish them, and also TO entorce
rules for the suppression of diseases.
Section requires the secretary of agri-
culture to prepare such rules as he may
deem necessary for the suppression and ex-
tirpation of contagious diseases among
domestic animals. This section empowers
the secretary that whenever a state or ter
ritory in which a acontagious disease exists.
which the secretary has declared to be
dangerous, fails to cooperate, or from any
cause it is impossible to enforce the rules
for the suppression of such disease, and he
believes there is danger to other states or
territories, to regulate and prohibit the
transportation of cattle out OF or into said
state or territory.
Section requires the secretary, IN order
to promote the expectation of live stock,
to make special investigation as to the ex-
istence of pleuro-pneumonia or other In
fictitious disease along the dividing line
between the United States and foreign
countries, and along the lines of transpor-
tation from all parts of the United States
to ports from which live stock is exported,
and he shall from time to time establish
such regulations concerning the export
and transportation of live stock as the re-
suit of said investigation may require.
Section enables the secretary to take
such steps and adopt such measures not
inconsistent with the provisions of the act
as he may deem necessary to prevent the
expectation of affected live stock from
any port of the United States to any
foreign port.
Section prohibits all railroad COM
panies in the United States, or the owner
any diseased live stock from any district
or state from which transportation has
been prohibited by the secretary OF agrl-
culture nor shall any person or corpora
tion deliver such live stock to any railroad
company or owner of vessel; nor shall
any person or corporation drive on foot or
transport in private conveyance any such
live stock from any affected districts into
any state, territory or the District of Col
umbia, except under special regulations
of the secretary.
Section instructs the secretary of agri-
culture to publish in such newspapers as
he may select notice of the existence of
any contagious disease in any state or dis
trict of a state, and so prohibit the re-
moval of diseased cattle elsewhere, and
requires him to notify in writing railroad
companies and owners OF vessels doing
business in said state. And any person
violating section shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, punishable with fine of not
less than 500 nor more than s, ,000, or i'm
prisonment for not more than one year,
or by both fine and imprisonment
Section obligates the district attorneys
of the United States to prosecute all viola
tions of this act, and defines the jurisdic-
tion of the courts.
The last section authorizes the secretary
of agriculture to adopt measures of quar-
antine if necessary, of which he shall
give notice by publication, and violation
of the quarantine is punishable with
fine of not less than $50 nor more than
500, or by ina priscnmelrt of more than 100
days, or by both, in the discretion of the
court