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which we have condemned 1,732 .since June 5, was $35 a 

 head, making $60,620 that has been paid back directly into 

 the farmers' hands. In order to examine these animals and 

 pay all the expenses of the commission, everything, it has 

 cost $16,100, and $60,620 has gone back to the farmer. 

 The expenses of the commission, all its agents, every ex- 

 pense of every kind, office rent and all, make about 20 

 cents on the dollar, and 80 cents go back to the farmer. 

 It was stated in a newspaper that 59 per cent of the money 

 spent under the law of 1895 went for expenses of the 

 commission. I openly deny that statement, right here. 

 Under the law of 1895 $91,876 was spent. They made 

 some fun of the $35,000 appropriation, but, if you re- 

 member, early in the year there was $50,000 added for 

 immediate use. That would have made the appropriation 

 $85,000. At the time the new law came into eifect with the 

 $100,000 appropriation, the inspectors had some four or 

 five hundred cattle tied up in quarantine which we had to 

 destroy ; so that they were quarantined and condemned 

 under the law of 1895, but had to be paid for out of this 

 $100,000, because they were killed after that time. When 

 the commission began operations under the new law, they 

 had $22,000 in their hands left of the appropriation, which 

 appropriation had been heralded to be $50,000, but was 

 really $35,000. They had an appropriation of $50,000 in 

 February, and they had animals enough ready to kill at the 

 time they got the appropriation to consume $19,876 of the 

 $100,000. The actual expense under that law was $91,876, 

 in organizing this whole work, fitting up the laboratories, 

 hospitals, quarantine stations, — inaugurating the whole 

 work, providing books that will last years, and all appli- 

 ances that are necessary in fitting any work. The total ex- 

 pense of everything under the law of 1894 was $44,376, and 

 there was returned to the farmer for cattle killed $47,500, 

 — that was under half compensation. If it had been worked 

 as it is now, it would have been certainly a third more. 

 I want to dispute that statement, that 59 per cent goes for 

 the expense of the commission, for it is false. 



Mr. Bradley. I do not know as it has been stated what 

 per cent of the suspected cattle have been condemned. 



