Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Rusk said to a reporter on the 22d that he was receiving encouraging reports of progress from Mr. George Sandecs, his special agent in Great Britain, relative to the removal of the British re*» strictions upon the importation of Amerlo can live stock. In a recent report to the Secretary, Mr. Sanders encloses excerpts from the British journals, which give, among other things, the details of the embargo recently placed upon a shipment of Canadian cattle to Scotland. The Secretary said this English account of the incis dent confirms what be has always con» tended, namely,the difficulty of depending absolutely upon a single diagnosis in order to determine whether symptoms of disease indicate the contagious or non-con-tagious pleuro-jneumonia. It was on this ground that the Secretary concluded to adopt the present plan of co-inspection by representatives of, his own department with the British inspectors. The Secretary also said that he thought the action of the British authorities in the Dundee case rather justified the inference that the restrictions imposed and maintained upon American cattle by the British government are due less to any' spiritof unfriendliness, which might lead to discriminations against the United States, than to a positive fear lest through any lack of official vigilance danger to British cattle might ensue, and this naturally leads him to the conclusion that comparatively little difficulty will be experienced in securing theremoval of any restrictions discriminating between American and Canadian cattle just as soon as the British authorities can be thoroughly convinced of the immunity which American cattle notv enjoy from contagious pleuro-pneu-mQnia, and of the ample powers vested in the Secretary of Agriculture to. control .nd eradicate it sb .aid any outbreak or :ur in the future. The Secretary feel ilghly encouraged at. the present stale v da efforts to remove restrictions upon American cattle.