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ERNEST I. SMITH. 
I hope that the presidency of the association may again seek a 
man from the bureau ranks. It may not have the honor in the 
future to elect the same chief of the bureau without repetition, 
but it is hoped that there may be other men in the department 
who will aspire for the office. 
In a preceding paragraph I have suggested organization of 
the bureau veterinary inspectors, not for the purpose of demand¬ 
ing any particular privileges nor antagonizing any existing 
orders, but for the purpose of stimulating more individuality— 
notably, a knowledge of what is being done in other stations; 
the methods, names of the men, facts relating to transfers, and 
many other details of supreme importance. The final result 
would be a monthly publication confined to the working of the 
bureau only. Such a periodical of information would be, in my 
opinion, what the bureau would desire to disseminate among the 
employes if it were not for certain prohibitive measures in the 
way of public printing. Therefore, if the task were conducted 
by some of the employes, and the revenue from the magazine 
bore the expenses, a solution to a difficult problem would be hap¬ 
pily reached. A self-sustaining organ of information among 
bureau employes would be one strenuous stride toward bureau 
perfection. 
Further Appropriation to Meet Indemnity Claims: 
Several hundred farmers and others scattered all through the 
State will be pleased to learn that Governor Dix has approved of 
the bill appropriating $200,000 for the payment of claims in¬ 
curred by the State by reason of the condemnation and slaughter 
of glandered horses and tuberculous cows. Commissioner Huson 
reported to the Legislature on March 7th that there were then 
claims on file in his department aggregating $194,000 with no 
funds to satisfv them. Manv of these claims are more than six 
months old. Commissioner Huson, in anticipation of the signing 
of the bill, has had a number of clerks at work for the past two 
weeks preparing schedules for the payment of these claims, and 
it is hoped that all properly authenticated claims will be satisfied 
within thirty days’ time. 
