PLEURO PNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
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5th. To secure the thorough disinfection of all infected ani- 
mals, places and things. 
6th. To enforce sufficient penalties on all transgressors of 
the cattle disease laws and orders. 
Whether such measures can be constitutionally carried out by 
the Federal Government is not for us to say. We do not hesitate 
to state that in our large infected cities the control and restriction 
of the movement of cattle can only be effectively carried out with 
the energetic co-operation of the city police. Any authority, 
therefore, intrusted with this work should have the means of 
securing their earnest and unflagging assistance. On the other 
hand the history of the past four years in dealing with this plague, 
and the facts that no one State from New York southward, in¬ 
fected in 1878, can to-day claim to hare stamped out the disease, 
and that no single large city infected at that time can to-day show 
a clean bill of health, show only too forcibly that the States must 
be furnished with a greater incentive to do efficient' work than 
has actuated them in the past. We therefore reiterate our recom¬ 
mendations of last year, that in case Congress should decide that 
the Federal Government cannot interfere within States to carry 
out the measures above indicated, it should lose no time in ap¬ 
propriating $1,500,000, to be disbursed by some designated 
officer of the government, to assist the different States in stamp¬ 
ing out this disease, the money to be paid only ofi the approval of 
the methods and work by a Federal veterinary sanitary authority, 
to be created for this purpose. 
As an additional argument for such a course, it may be stated 
that with the exception of New York, none of the infected States 
have made an appropriation at all adequate to the work to be 
done, and in some the legislatures are biennial, so that there is no' 
means of applying an immediate remedy to this fundamental de¬ 
fect. Maryland has absolutely no appropriation, and the legisla¬ 
ture does not meet until 1884; New York alone has an adequate 
sum, but it has been left in the treasury, rather than employed to 
secure effective work, and the limits of the disease have been ex¬ 
tended rather than circumscribed. 
The appropriation we recommend cannot be objected to on 
