PROF. LAW. 
from the seat of inoculation, then l)rs. Swinburne and Gallinger 
shall forfeit their respective salaries as Congressmen for the cur¬ 
rent year, the same to be applied, with whatever fund may be 
appiopiiated by Congress, for the costs of the experiment and 
foi the stamping out of the contagious lung plague of cattle. 
As they hold themselves superior to any need of studying re- 
poits and treatises on the subject, as the past history of the 
plague has no meaning for them, as their convictions are so 
strong that they hesitate not to discard and defy medical and vet¬ 
erinary literature alike, and as they rejoice in being able to leave 
the country to a present yearly loss of $5,000,000, and a prospec¬ 
tive yearly loss of $50,000,000 by reason of what they hold to be 
a delusion, they will doubtless be delighted to contribute this 
paltiy sum for the public good and as some atonement for the 
evil they have committed, in case it shall be shown that after all 
they aie not the exclusive custodians of all medical and veterin- 
ai \ knowledge. Men so willing to risk the great live-stock in¬ 
terest should be willing to risk their salaries. ^ 
I would suggest further that if the 114 Congressmen who 
willfully rejected the knowledge placed under their hands and 
followed the two doctors in their evil course will similarly stake 
their yearly salaries from the Government on this issue, we will 
ask no further appropriation for next year for the work of stamp¬ 
ing out this lung plague. In neglecting to study the Congress¬ 
ional reports made for their guidance, these men have been guilty 
of a gross failure in their duty; in casting their votes as they did 
in the face or the danger of impending calamity, they have in- 
cuired a fearful responsibility. Now let them be magnanimous 
and stake their salaries on the correctness of their position, and 
the outcome cannot fail to be a good one. If it shall be proven 
that we have no lung plague on this continent, the appropriation 
willsbe saved ; but if it shall turn out that we have, then the fund 
piovided by their salaries will be at once available for its extinc¬ 
tion, and they will have the patriotic comfort that it will not 
prove an extra tax upon an already heavily taxed and long-suffer¬ 
ing people. 
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