Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-23
REPLIES 70 DIR. KEEN
SENATOR NGALLINaER CLOSES
v1v1sEc14os CONTROVERSY.
Names Some % Those Who Supported
the Senate Bill-Thinks an
Apology is Due.

Senator Gallf2ea Has written another let
ter to DR.. w. W. Keen Of Philadelphia in
relation to vivieection, and in reply to the
latest communication Of DR.. Keen.
You suggest. says Senator Gallinger,
that did not give my authority for the
cases Of cruelty to which 1 referred IN my
former letter. In view of the fact that you
have heretofore claimed to be entirely ia
n1iliar with the bills that have been intro
duced into the Senate, and the hearings
had thereon, took 1t for granted that 1t
was not necessary for me to give the refer
ences. II you will turn to page II, Senate
report No. 1O49, made on May %, 1885, you
win find the names of the experimenters.
and, If necessary, I can give you scores
Of others. OF course, you are entirely IA
miliar with the horrible brutalities Of Ma
gendie, Mantagazsa, Gohz, c.. Bernard
Bracelet and Won Lesser-brutalities that
have shocked the moral sense Of christen-
dom-and 1t surely has not escaped y0nr
attention that DR.. B. A. Watson Of jersey
City and DR.. w. 8. Halstead of New York
are also on record as having performed ex-
periments on animals, without the use Of
anesthetics. that are disgrace to civiliza-
ton. (See page 16. same report) You are
also doubtless familiar with the expert
ments in human vivisectton performed by
6odIdlcili, dIiu Cle WTltlHS OIL LIZ. rye VI
Ohio and Prof. Slosson of the University Of
wyoming on the same subject. You must
be cogn1zant of the fact that DR.. Pyle Sc
cured the Introduction Of bill into the
human beings. and that Prof. Slosson, in
his advocacy of human viviSection, says
that a human life is nothing compared
with new fact in science, adding that
the aim of science Is the advancement of
human knowledge at any sacrifice Of hui
man life
ut may be that efforts to regulate prac-
tees OF that kind, whether performed on
the brute or the human creation, are cruel
and inhuman.' but the American people
Will never agree to that proposition.
Advocates Of the Senator's Bill.
For the purpose of historical accuracy,
beg to say that the original bill was in
troduced into the Senate by the late Sena-
tor Mcmillan, upon petition of five justices
Of the Supreme Court of the United States.
three justices of the courts of the District
of Columbia. Bishop Keane Of the Catholic
University of America, Bishop Satterlee,
Bishop Hurst. Archdeacon Childs, such dis
tinguished divines as DR.. Alexander Mackay-
Smith. DR.. Randolph H. McKim, DR.. John
H. Elliott. Dr. J. A. Aspinwall, DR.. Teunis
S. Hamlin, DR.. Byron Sunderland and
more than one hundred other clergy
men and leading men and. women of the
CITY OI washington. never DefOre was q
bill Endorsed by such an array Of people
distinguished in religion, literature, art and
public affairs. and by reference to the ap-
pendix to Senate report No. 1919 you will
observe that it'met with the approval of
scores Of distinguished people all over the
land, many Of them being physicians.
Il note that you say the correspondence
is closed on your part. In that connection
I beg to quote from the hearing on the bill,
on February 81, 1900. in which at it's close
you said: I desire to say Mr.. Chairman,
on behalf Of those who are opposed to the
bill, that your conduct of the hearing has
been most satisfactory; that you have been
most fair. and that welfare entirely con-
tent to rest our case.'