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ble ; and it is within the power of Congress, and no other 

 power that I know of, to get rid of the disease. People who 

 have seen nothing of it cannot realize the danger and risk 

 to which cattle-owners will be subjected if it is allowed to 

 spread. We shall have it here again inevitably. It cannot 

 long exist in other States without being a constant menace to 

 us. I have been astonished that we have not had it before 

 now. Unless the greatest vigilance is exercised, I do not 

 believe it is possible for us to go over another year without 

 an invasion of that terrible disease. 



Mr. Willis P. Hazard (of West Chester, Penn.). I de- 

 sire to second the suggestion of Mr. Flint. It is, as he says, 

 a national matter. Allusion has been made to Pennsylvania ; 

 and I desire to say that our Legislature, at its last session, 

 gave authority to the Governor, with the State Board of 

 Agriculture, of which the Governor is president, to stamp 

 out the disease ; and at the present time, the secretary of the 

 State Board, whenever he is notified (and the law makes it 

 the duty of cattle-owners to notify him) of the presence of 

 the disease in any place, immediately sends a veterinary sur- 

 geon there, who makes an examination of the cattle, and, if 

 he finds a decided case of pleuro-pneumonia, the cattle are 

 killed, and the State pays the owner for them. But no 

 matter how vigilant the State of Pennsylvania may be, or 

 how earnestly it may desire to stamp out this disease, it is 

 truly a national matter. Massachusetts is just as likely to be 

 attacked by the disease as Pennsylvania is, simply from the 

 fact that we raise a great many good cattle, and they are sold 

 all over the United States. If I have a herd of Jersey cattle, 

 and a man sends to me from Georgia, or any other State, for 

 one of them, I ship him one, not knowing that it has the dis- 

 ease, and, on its arrival, the disease may be developed. In 

 that way, the disease is distributed all over the country, and 

 no matter how diligently one State may seek to stamp it out, 

 it is a national matter, as Mr. Flint has suggested. 



Hon. E. H. Hyde (of Stafford, Conn.). I cannot resist 

 the temptation to indorse the sentiment expressed by Mr. 

 Flint. We are all in deep anxiety in regard to this disease, 

 and, as he has remarked, it is certain to make its appearance 

 among us sooner or later. We in Connecticut, bordering on 

 the line of New York, have been constantly and carefully 



