The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-07

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and 49, proposing an amendment u
Article VI. of the Constitution, relating
to the judiciary and establishment OF
courts of appeal, was taken up, read
adopted. committee amendments adopt
ed and ordered printed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Committee reports were handed in
as follows:
Gillette, for Judiciary-A- BIS 7S9. re-
garding organization, officers and melii-
bers of the National Guard-Withoue
recommendation; 365, relating to fish
re-referred to Committee ON Fish anu
Game; 5S, concerning proceedings
against delinquent purchasers OF state
lands; $50, amending an Act relatins
to estrays; 359, relating to rellefs from
| judgment, orders or proceedings oot'
relating to grub-Stake contracts, 800,
to amend Section 1890 of the Code Oh
| Civil Procedure; and $40, do not pass.
| A. BIS 1873, concerning the manner IN ana
the time within which certain objections
| to dispositions shall be made; 4IS, reSu-
| lating the cancellation of fire lnsur-
ance policies; $50. relating to Asses
sors' field enrolment books; 40,
amending Section $3.50 of the civil
Code, 745, to abolish the office OF
Quarantine Officer for San Franclsco'
and S31-do pass
| Boyce for Education and PUBIC
Morals-A. B. 4SO, relating to selling
LIQUOR to common drunkards, minors
Indians, etc.-pass as amended.
| Rowell, for Hospitals-S. BIS AZ, to
regulate the practice of osteopathy'
| 664, relating to compulsory vaccina-
ton; 676, to regulate the practlce CT
electro therapeutics; 241, to regulate
the practice of pharmacy, and o5''. 10
regulate the sale of poisons-do not
pass.
ABOUT RULES.
| Stratton, for the Committee ON Rules
reported back a resolution, which was
| adopted, providing that when any SEN
ator was absent during the making Up
of any special file, he may, upon ms
return. place a bill upon such file. AS
a. matter of fact, the custom already
| prevailed.
!, TWO BILLS APPROVED.
A message was received from the
lGovernor announcing that he had ap-
proved s. B. 362, by Trout, to establish
a camp of instruction for the National
Guard of the State, and to authorize
| the acquisition by donation OF site
| for the same.
! Also. that he had approved s. i. 444
by Stratton, relating to municipal cleo
lions. where the same are held sep
arate from general State elections ano
! elections held under the authority OF
! Section 8 of Article XII. of the ConStl-
I tuition, to elect boards of freeholders
! or to vote on proposed charters or upon
amendments to existing charters, and
to repeal an Act in relation to elections
held under the authority Of Section :
of Article XII of the Constitution. ap-
proved March 81, 1897.
| DAIRY BILL VETOED.
Also. that he had vetoed s. B. 90. by
| Dickinson, to provide for the inspection
of diaries, factories of dairy products
and of dairy products as to their SAM
tary condition, and as to the health OF
stock. and to prevent the sale of milk
and the products of milk drawn from
diseased animals, and to prevent the
| spread of infectious and contagious
diseases common to stock, and to ap-
propriate money therefor, giving his
reasons therefor. The reasons given
follow:
To the Senate of the State of California
/ herewith return to your honorable pooy
| without my approval, together WITH my
objections thereto, Senate bill No. SO. en-
! titled IAN Act to provide for the lnSpec-
ton of diaries. factories of dairy products
| and of dairy products as to their sanitary
| condition, and as to the health of stock
and to prevent the sale of milk and the
products of milk drawn from diseased
animals to the people of this State. and t
| prevent the spread of infectious and con.
tagious diseases common to stock, ane
to appropriate money therefor
Act violation
its provisions crime, which is punishable
by fine or Imprisonment, and such i'm
prisonment to be at the discretion OF the
Section i, among other things, makes il
unlawful to manufacture any article o.
fever" and also prohibits the vending Of
milk from such animals, etc.
Were this bill to become operative
clude the milking of many large herds Of
dairy cows within this State. There are
several sections, of this State. contain
mich cows are infected with Texas
fever" and which fact is unknown to the
prietors of these cattle are themselves to-
day urging the passage of this law
which would mean their own financial
| ruin.
/ am constrained to remark that there
| are very many dairymen who do not
| understand what is meant by the term
Many Of the herds of cattle within this
State infected with this disease and ca
pable of transmitting it under favorable
circumstances to other susceptible cattle
are themselves immune to 1t. and conse-
quently show no symptoms Of the disease
| whatever.
The micro organism which causes the
| disease lives in a dormant or inactive
state in the red blood corpuscle of the
infectious Southern animal. and is trans
mitted to the susceptible animal by means
of a Southern tick.
| l find the following view expressed in
| that valuable book. Bulletin No. 81 of the
Agricultural Experiment Station, and the
Missouri State Board Of Agriculture, in
cooperation with the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, Page So:
The TRANSMISSION of this micro organ
ism from Southern cattle to native
| Northern cattle in natural outbreaks is
effected by a Southern cattle tick, and
by this means only"
This micro organism. on entering the
system Of the susceptible animal be-
| comes active, and produces the disease
known as Texas or splenetic fever, by de-
stroying the red corpuscles OF the affected
While the infected Southern animal is
capable, under favorable circumstances
self infected with the micro organism, il
has been fully demonstrated by the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture. and
by the Health Commissioners of numer-
Gus States, that the products from and
the flesh OF. such animals are perfectly
i wholesome for food.
find in Special Report on Diseases O.
Cattle and Cattle Feeding, 1892. in House
Miscellaneous Documents. second Session
Fifty-third Congress. 1929 vol is. al
| pages $3.50. that this disease known as
Texas fever is one from which immunity
is acquired and therefore calves which
recover from it are not again attacked as
a rule. even after they become adult. and
that these. cattle infect others through
the medium of ticks, while they them
selves are in perfect health"
Such has long been my Impression de-
rived from research and from consid-
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