Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-30
A Numerously Signed Petition Pre-
scented in the Senate.
REPORT OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Memorial in Opposition by the
: District Medical Society.
PROBABLECOMMITTEE ACTION

The question Of vivisection came up in
the Senate this morning, when Mr.. Gal
inger Immediately after the chaplain had
finished his prayer arose and presented
brief petition, signed by some of Washing
toms most influential citizens, praying for
the passage Of the pending bills which pro-
vide for the regulation Of vivisection in the
District Of Columbia. The petitioners in
clude the following named persons: Justices
John M. Harlan, H. B. Brown, David j.
Brewer, E. D. White, r. w. Peckham and
George Shiras, jr., OF the Supreme Court of
the United States; Justices Walter s. Cox,
A. B. Hagner and c. c. Cole Of the Supreme
Court of the District Of Columbia Chief
Justice W. A. Richardson and Justices c.
c. Mott and Lawrence Weldon Of the United
States Court Of Claims; Bishop John ].
Keane, rector of the Catholic University of
America; Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee, Bishop
John F. Hurst, Archdeacon Thomas S.
Chlds Rev. DR.. Alexander Mackay-Smith,
rector of St. Johns; Rev DR.. Randolph H.
Mckim, rector of Epiphany; Rev. Dr. John
H. Elliott, rector Church of the Ascension;
Rev. DR.. j. A. Aspinwall, rector of st.
Thomas Church; Rev. DR.. Teunis S. Hamlin,
pastor Church of the Covenant; Rev. Dr.
Byron Sunderland. pastor First Presby-
terrain Church; Rev. Thomas G. Easton
pastor Eastern Presbyterian Church; Rev
DR.. Frederick D.. Power, pastor Vermont
Avenue Christian Church; Rev. DR.. Oliver
A. Brown, pastor of Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church; Rev. DR.. Frank Sewal
pastor New Church; Rev. DR.. J. g. Butler,
pastor Memorial Church; Rev. DR.. Alex
ander Kent pastor Peoples church;
RAJ c ana Ms NGis org a. HsareI M Mr
John Davis, Mrs. A. W. Greedy, Mrs. l..
Il. Letter, Mis-. Madeleine Ninton Dahlgren,
Mrs. w. w. Stewart, Mrs. S. Powhatan
Carter, Mrs. Florence Murray, Mrs Rob-
ert Anderson, Mrs. George Shiras. jr.; Mrs.
H. b. Brown, Miss Emma Morton, Mrs.
Henry NJ. Teller, Miss Olive Risley Sew
ard, Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Barbour, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry +. Blount, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
s. F. Macfarland Mrs. Benaiah l.. Whit
man, General and Mrs. Rufus Saxton, Gen
eral John G. Parke, General D. S. STAN
ley, General J. S. Fullerton, General H. V.
Boynton, General James H. Watmough, eX-
Senator Charles F. Henderson, ex-senator
John &. Henderson, Representative Charles
l.. Henry, ex-Commissloner John w. Doug
lass, Mr.. Crosby s. Noyes. MIR. Theodore
+. Mclean. Mr.. John Joy Edison, Mr.. B.
II. Warner, MIR. Charles ]. Bell, Mr.. Sam
qel M Bryan, Mr. James E. Fitch, Mr..
Eckels, Mr.: r. Ross Perry, Mr.. Enoch Tot
ten, Mr.. W: D: Davidge. Mr.. Jere NJ. Will
son. Mr.. Mahlon Ashford Mr.. Nathaniel
Wilson. Mr.. Anthony Pollok, Mr.. Caderon
Mr. Halbert E. Paine, MI Reginald
Fendall, Mr.. Benjamin Butterworth, Mr..
Samuel Maddox. Mr.. ]. J. Darlington, Mr.
a: G. Riddle. Mr.. Henry E. Davis. Mr.
John Sidney Webb. Mr.. j. c. Head, Mr..
William A. Gordon, Mr.. ]. Holdsworth
Gordon, Mr.. William Henry Dennis, Mr.
w. Redin Woodward, Mr. Leigh Robinson,
Mr.. r. e. Lee. jr.: Mr.. Montgomery Blair,
ME- Frank I. Browning, Mr.. William Stone
Alert. Mr.. Story r. Ladd, Judge Thomas
Miller GI.o Mr.. Grammond Kennedy, Air,
EfQulkG Cup
mings, Mr.. w. NJ. Poindexter Mr.. Maxwell
Woodruff. Elliott Coues, A. NJ, NJ. D., etc.,
late professor of anatomy National Medical
College; DR.. F. A Gardner, DR.. s. SStearns,
DR.. Jas. A. Freer, DR.. Reginald Munson,
DR.. L. E. Rauterberg, DIR. S. 1. Groot,
DR.. Leigh Yerkes Baker, Dr. Waterman F.
Corey, DR.. Charles b. Gilbert, Mr.. A. S.
Pratt, Mr.. William B. Cabell, Maj R. H.
Montgomery, U.S.A.: Maj. Robert Craig,
U.S.A.; James A. Bates, U.S.A; David A.
Irwin, U.SA.; Theodore Mosher, U.S.A :
Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Leupp, Mrs. Albert
T. Salter, Frances B. de Kraft, Mr.. and
Mrs. William d. Window Mr.. E. A. Car
man, Mr.. Seaton Perry, Messrs. Harris and
Shafer, Mr.. James Lansburgh, Mr.. Charles
w. Needham. Mr.. John B. Cotton, Mr.. F.
w. Pratt, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Boyn-
ton, Mr.. Andrew Langdon, Mr.. Robert l.
Fleming, Mr.. John Tweedale, Miss Ruth G.
d. Ravens, Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, Mr.
August Burgdorf, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Walter
Fewkes, Mr.. A. G. Heaton, Mr.. Charles S.
Bradley, Mr.. William Ballantyne
Mr.. Gibbs Letter,
Mr.. Gallinger also presented letter re-
ceived by him from Walcott Gibbs, presi-
which recently requested to furnish
an opinion as to the scientific value of
vivisection and as to the probable effect
of restrictive legislation upon the advance
n,ent of biological science. President
Gibbs submits report, in which it is set
forth that physiology should necessarily he
studied by experimental methods The
Psychologist. no less than the physicist and
the chemist, can expect advancement of
his science only the result of carefully
planned laboratory work. If this work Is
lnterfefed with medical science will con-
tinue to advance by means of experiment.
for no legislation can affect the position
OF physiology as an experimental science.
Eut, the report continues. there will be
ers will be medical practitioners and the
victims human beings.
Law of Nature.
THAT animals must suffer and die for
the benefit Of mankind is a law of nature
from which we cannot escape If we would
and as long man claims dominion over
the brute creation and asserts his right to
Kill and mutilate animals in order to OBJ
tain food and clothing, and even for the
purposes OF amusement and adornment, 1t
20 g! uiai eo9ohauie " "dSe d nuHdnl-
tartan warfare against the only kind of
pain-giving practice that has for it's object
the relief of pain.
The death of an animal in physiologi-
cal la laboratory is usually attended with less
suffering than is associated with so-called
natural death. for the discovery of anaes-
thetics has extended its beneficent influ-
ence over the lower animals as we'll as
over the human race, and in modern lab
ora tories anaesthetics are always employ ed
except when the operation involves less
suffering to the animal than the admins
tration of the anaesthetic. as in the case
OF NEGOTIATIONS or in those instances where
the anaeSthetic would interfere with the
niinct Of .