CHICAGO CONTENTION OF STOCKMEN. 
479 
EVENING SESSION. 
On the Convention being called to order, Or. J. W. Gadsden, 
of Philadelphia, read a paper on “ Contagious Diseases in Cattle; 
IIow they are Imported and What they Cost.” The three 
diseases named were rinderpest, pleuro-pneumonia, and foot and 
mouth disease, the former never known here, and the others 
traceable to imported stock. To have effect action must be taken 
by the National Government, and not left to local authorities. 
He added that there was no quarantine enforced at Philadelphia, 
and cattle landed there were taken into the country by their 
owners. Prof. Law replied that the Treasury Cattle Commission 
was not aware of this, and were not responsible, as the regulations 
were that no cattle should be landed except at points where pre¬ 
parations had been made for quarantining stock. 
Mr. L. S. Coffin said that the Convention should take such 
action as would secure protection from further danger of bring¬ 
ing disease by importations. Considerable discussion followed, 
after which several members were added to the committee 
on resolutions, and the convention adjourned, to meet at 8 o’clock 
the next morning. 
FRIDAY MORNING. 
The convention being called to order, the Chairman announced 
that the reading of the resolutions would be the first business, and, 
on motion, it was agreed that they should be read and acted upon 
separately. . 
RESOLUTIONS. 
Whereas , The existence of disease among the domestic animals 
in the United States has seriously affected the exportation of live 
stock, the suspicion that attaches in foreign countries to all neat 
cattle and swine of the United States on account of the existence 
of diseases in certain localities has greatly lessened the sale of 
American meats in foreign markets; and 
Whereas , The existence of pleuro-pneumonia in certain of the 
Atlantic States, introduced from time to time by the importation 
of live stock from European countries, constantly threatens the 
spread of the contagion to the Southern and Western States and 
Territories; that the disease is of such a character that State 
