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EDITORIAL. 
A great election is at hand, and men who wish to be U. S. Senators and Representa¬ 
tives are seeking your suffrages. Call on them personally, or have your political friends- 
call on them, before election and get their written promises to support this worthy bill, and 
send such promises to our Chairman, to assist him before Congress. 
When Congress convenes in December, write to your Representatives and Senators 
and remind them of their promises. Please give this matter your early and vigorous at¬ 
tention. Yours for veterinary progress, 
J. P. Turner, Chairman , Fort Myer, Va., 
John R. Hart, 2577 Amber St., Phila., Pa., 
Austin Peters, Jamaica Plain, Mass., 
Committee on Army Legislation, U S. Vet. Med. Association. 
It was clearly shown before the recent meeting at Buffalo 
that the passage of this bill during the next session of Congress 
was almost certain if an earnest effort were made to accomplish 
it; it has been the basis of a great deal of hard work by this 
committee, as well as by previous committees ; no other bill has 
ever before received the unqualified endorsements of the officials 
of the War Department nor a favorable report from the Army 
Committee, and no former bill was ever in such shape to become 
a law as this one. All that is now required is a long pull and a 
strong pull, and the position of army veterinary surgeon will 
be a post of honor and not a menial one of which all who hold 
them are ashamed. 
Readers of the Review, do not neglect the opportunity that 
is here presented to do yourself the honor of complying with 
the request of the Committee. Give a few minutes of your 
time to a work that this Committee is giving days to, and money 
besides. 
A Good Appointment.— The Governor of Massachusetts 
has appointed John M. Parker, D. V. S., of Haverhill, a member 
of the Cattle Commission of that State, to succeed Prof. Tyman. 
Dr. Parker has for a long time taken a very active interest in 
the subject of tuberculosis, having given to the profession some 
very valuable contributions from his pen as a result of much 
original research and earnest thought, and his recognition by his 
State for a position which he is peculiarly fitted to fill and adorn is 
in the direct line of progress, as the recipient will take with him 
