American Veterinary Review 
JANUARY, 1901. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell , Seventh Ave. & Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
THE VETERINARY ARMY CORPS. 
If the veterinary profession had not suffered so many un¬ 
expected disappointments when success was all but assured, the 
Review would feel like throwing its hat high in the air and 
calling for three lusty cheers for the Veterinary Corps of the 
United States Army, so nearly an accomplished fact does it now 
appear. It passed the House of Representatives on December 
5 by a vote of ayes 80, noes 72, and now goes back to the 
Senate for concurrence. That body having already given its 
sanction to the veterinary section of the army bill, it would be 
a travesty upon consistency should it now reverse itself, and 
fail to agree to the House amendment. But the alert Commit¬ 
tee of the A. V. M. A. is taking no chances, and has thrown its 
entire battery against those who are to do the voting. So 
thorough has been its work that the junior Senator from New 
York addressed himself to the Resident State Secretary with 
an avowal that the veterinary surgeons of New York State 
have deluged him with so many appeals that he cannot reply 
to them individually, but pledges his earnest consideration of 
the bill which called forth such a united effort. While we have 
no knowledge to that effect, we presume the profession in other 
States has been equally active, and if the supposition is correct 
the cause will be utterly irresistible when it is reached 111 the 
Senate, which will probably be during the first half of January. 
The last ditch will have been virtually crossed when the Sen- 
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