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that their position upon the question of their receipt of our cattle 
is a perfectly fair one, and leaves no room for complaint. When 
it is remembered how many thousand pounds sterling have been 
lost by British cattle-owners, on account of the introduction 
among their herds of foreign cattle affected with exotic contag¬ 
ious diseases, and, as they say, when one thinks of how little pro¬ 
vision we, as a government, have made to prevent the spread of 
pleuro-pneumonia, it is difficult to see how they can do otherwise. 
That this disease really has an existence in a certain part of this 
country, they, through their consuls, are as well aware as we, and 
no amount of testimony to the contrary by this intelligent farmer, 
and the other experienced dealer, will have the slightest possible 
effect upon their action. I thoroughly believe that were we able to 
show a country entirely free from this disease, the restrictions 
now imposed upon our cattle landing in Great Britain, would at 
once be removed, other conditions being the same as now. That 
is, I am a strong believer in their honesty of purpose in this 
matter. It is a significant fact that no condemnations have been 
made since last June, upon cattle coming from Boston or Port¬ 
land. In regard to ridding ourselves of this present incubus 
upon 'what should be a large and profitable export trade, and 
which now seems threatened with extinction, as well as to prevent 
for all time the great danger, which I feel to be a real one, of the 
introduction of this pest to our Western cattle ranges, from 
whence it could never be dislodged, I can think of but one 
method which seems to me to offer in any degree a hope of suc¬ 
cess, and that is for Congress to take the matter in charge in some 
way that will give the power to, and compel some one authority 
to control the movements of ajl animals within the diseased dis¬ 
tricts, and at the same time take such other steps as may be nec¬ 
essary for the killing of all animals diseased or infected. I have 
no faith in the unanimity of action in the matter by the directly 
interested States themselves—this, for various reasons, which I 
have thoroughly learned to appreciate during my recent experi¬ 
ence. Neither will action, which only creates a power capable of 
spasmodic effort, be of avail, else the whole country will but re¬ 
peat the recent experience of the State of New York—a num- 
