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EDITORIAL. 
As agreed to, the amendment reads as follows: 
That the veterinary corps shall consist of a chief veterinarian, with 
the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel, United States army ; an as¬ 
sistant chief veterinarian, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a major, 
United States army, to be promoted in 1905, after competitive satis¬ 
factory examination, from the grade of veterinarian and captain ; four 
veterinarians, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain of cav¬ 
alry, to be promoted in 1903, after competitive satisfactory examina¬ 
tion, from the grade of assistant veterinarian and first lieutenant ; ten 
assistant veterinarians, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a first 
lieutenant of cavalry, to be promoted, after satisfactory examination, 
from the grade of assistant veterinarian and second lieutenant after one 
year’s service in this grade ; twenty assistant veterinarians, with the 
rank, pay, and allowances of a second lieutenant of cavalry, to be ap¬ 
pointed after satisfactory examination : Provided, That these twenty 
positions shall include the veterinarians, first class, provided for in the 
act of March 2, 1899, who have passed satisfactory examinations, and 
also the six veterinarians, second class, who are now employed in the 
army under said act of March 2, 1899. All rules and regulations gov¬ 
erning the veterinary corps shall be made by the Secretary of War, and 
the chief veterinarian shall report directly to that officer. For pay of 
officers of the veterinary corps, $33,500. 
While the success of this veterinary amendment is highly 
gratifying and pleasing to the profession, we must con¬ 
sider the efforts which will be made in the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives by our adversaries to defeat or cripple this 
amendment. Such action is indicated by the language of the 
following part of an editorial in the Army and Navy Journal of 
May 15th: 
The section of the reorganization bill which provides for a corps of 
veterinary surgeons, which was incorporated in the original bill by the 
Senate will certainly operate to the detriment of the entire measure when 
it comes before the House. This section was adopted by one of the sharp¬ 
est pieces of lobby work which has ever been known. Fvery member of 
. the Senate Committee on Military Affairs reported against the section, 
and it was not favorably considered by the Secretary of War or any 
officer in the War Department. There is no doubt that the cutting out 
of this section will be one of the first changes made by the House 
Committee. 
Thus it was that at the hearing of the Military Committee 
of the House, on May 15, the Secretary of War said with ref¬ 
erence to a corps of veterinary surgeons that he was very much 
opposed to establishing another bureau of the War Department 
of this or of any other nature. Veterinarians were needed, but 
they should be under the control of the Adjutant-General’s 
