EDITORIAL. 
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country were made known in no uncertain manner ; the mem¬ 
bers of Congress and Senators were besieged with letters from 
their veterinary constituents until they were prepared to make 
an unconditional surrender. As an illustration of the feeling on 
this point, the editor of the Review received a very satisfactory 
reply from Senator Platt, of New York, to whom he had writ¬ 
ten in the interests of the amendment, and in concluding he 
gave expression to his experience with the members of the pro¬ 
fession of the State as follows : “I am quite prepared to accept 
your statement that your profession is looo strong in our State, 
if I may judge by the number of letters I have lately received 
of a similar import to yours.” Whatever the fate of the Army 
bill, the veterinarians have won a victor}^ which should encour¬ 
age them to follow up the advantage and reap the reward of 
their hard work. 
Between seeking new laws and protecting those which have 
been secured, the veterinary profession of New York State is 
testing its reputation for vigilance. There are now in commit¬ 
tee no less than three bills up to date asking the legislature to 
re-open the registration books of 1886, and allow them to re¬ 
main so until Tom, Dick, and Harry can have their names re¬ 
corded as having practiced the veterinary healing art prior to 
the date mentioned, without regard to qualification. These 
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bills were introduced in the Assembly and are numbered 197, 
243, and 329. They were all referred to the Committee on 
General Laws, of which Assemblyman Fish is chairman, and 
the profession of the State has been importuned by the argus- 
eyed chairman of the Legislative Committee of the State Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Society, Dr. William Henry Kelly, to write to 
Mr. Fish and protest against the preposterous propositions of 
which he is custodian. We have no doubt that the Empire 
State veterinarians have responded in their usual vigorous 
manner. 
We print elsewhere two bills seeking legislation of a differ¬ 
ent kind. One of these is known as Assembly bill 650, and 
seeks to establish a State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, to 
