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this is shown by the Chicago Tribune publishing interviews 

 with myself on their front page, three days in succession, 

 without ever having talked with me. That shows you 

 something of what the system is in regard to news on such 

 matters in the City of Chicago. 



Last year as in former years, the tuberculin testing in 

 the State of Illinois was co-operative between the state 

 and the federal governments. The federal inspector in 

 charge was in direct charge of the work. This system was 

 an outgrowth of the work started by the federal Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in placing veterinarians and inspectors 

 in this state as they did in other states, telling the people 

 and telling the farmer how important it was that they test 

 their cattle for bovine tuberculosis. 



There is where their sentiment started, and that senti- 

 ment grew. They represented at that time that if the state 

 would pay one-third indemnity on condemned cattle the 

 federal government would pay one-third and the farmer 

 would lose one-third. Last year, under the management 

 of representatives of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, in spite of our warnings, there was over two 

 hundred thousand dollars spent or obligated in this state, 

 than there was apparent money available to pay, because 

 the federal government was out of money and continued 

 the testing at high speed. That obligated someone, be- 

 cause the farmer had been assured that he would get his 

 indemnity. We scratched around and scratched around 

 all summer to try and pay that obligation. The state of 

 Illinois paid one hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars 

 of the federal claim. In order to do that we used all of 

 the emergency appropriation made agriculture and made 

 to the governor's office, and we reached the end of our 

 rope. 



When they found at Washington that we were all 

 through, and they couldn't get any more out of us, they 

 came across and paid the rest of it. I am telling you this 

 to give you a little history on what has happened in Illinois. 



The Tice Bill was before the last legislature. The 

 Tice bill was not drafted nor was it backed by the state 



