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ARMY VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
ization or reorganization of the Army such a proposition is de¬ 
sirable and necessary. I am informed that, as the Army will 
be reorganized under the provisions of this bill, if it becomes a 
law, there will be upward of 25,000 animals to be cared for. 
The cavalry, the artillery, and the necessary transportation re¬ 
quired for the Quartermaster’s Department will involve the 
care of this large number of animals. 
Mr. Jett. Let me ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania a 
question for information. 
Mr. Bingham. Certainly. 
Mr. Jett. I would like to ask if the amendment that the 
gentleman offers is not a section of the bill that was before the 
Senate and passed by that body and came here during the last 
session of the House for our consideration ? 
Mr. Bingham. Absolutely the same, word for word. I 
ha.ve simply torn out the printed sheet of the original bill and 
presented it here as an amendment. 
Mr. Chairman, this matter is so thoroughly understood by 
the House that I have no desire to take time to discuss it. I 
have shown what the increase of expenditures will be. I have 
shown that it would be a little in excess of $6000. Certainly 
such an organization, indorsed by the leading officers of the 
service, deserves consideration at our hands, and I think it but 
fair to say that by the action we now take here the House will 
either make the paragraph a part of the bill agreed to by both 
the Houses or leave it as a paragraph to be settled in con¬ 
ference. 
[Here the hammer fell.] 
Mr. Bhdl. Mr. Chairman, I sincerely hope that the amend¬ 
ment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania will not prevail. 
The Committee on Military Affairs took the Senate bill and 
struck from it all after the enacting clause and inserted the bill 
which is now reported here to the House and recommended by 
the committee. Now, if we take a part of the bill here and 
there and insert it in the House proposition, you reduce the 
power of the House to enforce its own will just to that extent; 
and it seems to me that the position of veterinary surgeon 
should stand with the other provisions of the Senate bill and 
let it go to conference as a whole. 
Further than that, Mr. Chairman, I am strongly in favor of 
commissioned ranks for the veterinary corps of the Army. I 
believe they ought to have commissioned rank. As to whether 
we want to create a new corps, a new bureau in the Army, is 
