EDITORIAL 
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Art. 3. The officers of this association shall consist of a 
president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and assistant secretary, 
all of whom shall be elected at each annual meeting, and a ma¬ 
jority of all votes present shall be necessary to a choice. 
Art. 4. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at 
all meetings of the association. The usual parliamentary rules 
shall govern. 
Art. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a cor¬ 
rect record of the proceedings. 
Art. 6 . It shall be the duty of the president to appoint a 
committee at each annual meeting to take up a collection or make 
an assessment to defray necessary expenses. 
A resolution, introduced at the same meeting, proposing an 
expression of appreciation by the congress of the work accom¬ 
plished by the Bureau of Animal Industry, elicited much discus¬ 
sion and considerable variance of opinion, and was finally adopted 
in the following form : 
Whereas , The existence of contagious pleuro-pneumonia 
among animals in the United States is annually a source of great 
loss. 
Whereas , The great cattle industry, commerce and food sup¬ 
ply of the country are peculiarly threatened by the recent exten¬ 
sion of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and 
Whereas , Beal and alleged outbreaks of contagious diseases 
require constant investigation and control; therefore, be it 
Resolved , That the State veterinarians and veterinary sani¬ 
tary boards of the United States, in convention assembled, recog¬ 
nize the wisdom of Congress in establishing the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry, and while heartily appreciating the* valuable ser¬ 
vices rendered by the bureau in the past, we would recommend 
such additional legislation as to enable it to effectually extirpate 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia and to control such other diseases 
as may from time to time appear. 
An election of officers followed, which resulted in the choice 
of J. L. Brush, of Colorado, as president, Dr. J. D. Hopkins and 
V. T. Atkinson as first and second vice-presidents, Dr. P. Paquin 
as secretary, and Dr. M. B. Trumbower as assistant secretary. 
A discussion succeeded on the subject of inoculation, in con¬ 
nection with resolutions which had been introduced by Dr. Hop¬ 
kins on the day previous. This turned out to be a serious ques¬ 
tion, and excited much discussion and wide divergence of opin- 
