EDITORIAL. 
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ter asking veterinarians to urge its passage upon Senators and 
Members of Assembly. 
But the full extent of consummate quackery is never 
reached until we hear from Illinois. She usually outstrips all 
competitors in the race of retrogression. A State which could 
only have a choice between a Tanner and an Altgeld, and which 
could subsequently remove a true scientific and conscientious 
State veterinarian to make room for a political creature without 
the qualifications of a rudimentary professional education, can be 
relied upon to occasionally give us something sensational in the 
line of veterinary legislation. In a seven-page bill (301) intro¬ 
duced in the Senate on February 23 by Mr. May, there is created 
a veterinary examining board under control of the live stock 
commissioners who are given power to examine and license 
everybody who has the price of their fees. Section 4 contains 
this sentence : u * * * The State Board of Veterinary 
Examiners shall examine all applicants not entitled to practice 
by reason of being in possession of a diploma, or of having prac¬ 
ticed three years, presenting themselves for that purpose. * * * 
All applicants for examinations before the Board of Veterinary 
Examiners who shall not possess a diploma as aforesaid, or who 
shall not have practiced three years or more, shall accompany 
said application by an examination fee of twenty dollars.” It 
makes no difference what the other provisions of the long bill 
are, it is the most audacious that has been attempted in any 
State in recent years. By the time this issue of the Review 
reaches its large number of readers in that State, we presume 
every legitimate practitioner in Illinois will have sat upon it 
very hard. 
THE ARMY BEEF INQUIRY. 
Although at this writing the investigations of the Army 
Board, appointed to examine into the meat supply during the 
war, is not finished, sufficient testimony has been produced to 
make this inquiry one of more than passing interest to the vet¬ 
erinarians of the country. The accusations of General Miles, 
