PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
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days, and, together with all their appurtenances, should he sub¬ 
jected to a disinfection before release; also that all products of 
such animals capable of conveying infection should be made the 
object of prohibition or disinfection. 
Seeing that sections 2493 and 2494 of the Revised Statutes do 
not authorize the Secretary of the Treasury and the President to 
make regulations under which these animals may he safely im¬ 
ported, we recommend that the attention of Congress should be 
called to the subject, and that this body should be requested to 
confer such power by special enactment. Such law should, how¬ 
ever, be so drawn as to be applicable to any other danger of the 
same kind which may at any time threaten any class of our live 
stock. An extension of the slieep-pox in Europe or an importa¬ 
tion of ovine animals from a new source may at any time threaten 
us with that deadly plague, and similar remarks apply to the extern 
sion of rinderpest into western Europe, to aphthous fever, to the 
quebra bunda of South America, to the horse sickness of South 
Africa, Ac. We therefore recommend that Congress should em¬ 
power the Secretary of the Treasury, with the consent of the 
President, whenever in their judgment it shall he necessary, to 
prohibit the importation of any specific class of animals, and any 
products of such animals, from any country at the time infected 
with a dangerous contagious disease, or in imminent danger of 
becoming so; or so to regulate the importation of such animals 
and their products as shall in their judgment be necessary for the 
protection of our native live stock. 
We also recommend, in view of a contingency that may possi¬ 
bly arise under our present quarantine system, that Congress shall 
empower the Secretary of the Treasury to order the instant destruc¬ 
tion and proper disposal of all cattle or other animals which dur¬ 
ing the period of their quarantine may manifest any dangerous 
contagious disease; together with all other animals detained in 
the same herd, unless when, in the case of the latter, they can be 
safely removed to a special quarantine ground, approved by the 
Treasury Cattle Commission, and detained there under such rigid 
supervision as the Commission shall prescribe, at the owner’s ex¬ 
pense. 
