Newspaper Page Text
MEAT BILL ROW
QUIETS DOWN
Measure Is Changed to Suit Wishes
of President Roosevelt.
IS A DECISIVE VICTORY
All Features, Save One, to Which Pres¬
ident Objected are Eliminated by
House Committee.
A Washington special says: The
(basis of a complete agreement on the
meat inspection legislation between
President Roosevelt and the house
committee on agriculture was arrived
at Monday at the white house. Speak¬
er Cannon represented the committee
in this instance and subsequently
spent some time explaining the sit¬
uation to the committee in its rooms
at the capitol. The bill was practical¬
ly complete when the committee ad¬
journed Monday.
It will authorize an annual appro¬
priation of $3,000,000 to pay the cost
■of inspection and will contain no pro¬
vision for the levy of an assessment
to make up any deficiency in the
amount available for this work as
-suggested by Mr. Cowan, represent¬
ing the Texas cattle growers, and
.later urged by the president.
The court review provision will not
■be contained in the measure.
This action meets the suggestion of
the president. The words “in the
judgment of the secretary of agricul¬
ture” will not be inserted, as sug¬
gested by the president, and this con¬
clusion now meets Mr. Roosevelt’s
■approval.
The section waiving the civil serv¬
ice law for one year in the selection
■of inspectors will go out of the pro¬
vision, also one of the president’s rec¬
ommendation.
There is to be no date on the label
•of the packing of meat food products.
In this the president yields to the
•committee. The language which
gives the inspectors the right to the
packing plants at all times is ampli¬
fied by the words ‘‘whether the same
be in operation or not.”
With these changes made, the pres¬
ident has indicated his entire satis¬
faction with the measure which was
reported from the committee as a
substitute for the Beveridge amend¬
ment, and was Monday recommitted
to the committee that the change may
be made.
Speaker Cannon was accompanied
to the white house by Representative
Adams of Wisconsin, a member of the
agricultural committee. Ordinarily,
the speaker does not take the active
part in legislation which he has in
the present instance. _ 'It has been ex¬
plained, however, that he regards the
passage of an adequate inspection
bill with all possible speed, as vital¬
ly essential to the welfare of many
Important industries throughout the
■country.
The objection which was urged t.o
the president as a reason why he
should not insist on giving authority
to the secretary of agriculture to
levy a tax to make up any deficiency
was the constitutional provision that
-congress shall levy all taxes, ^
head tax on animals, it was pointed
■out, would be an exceedingly unequal
-one, as the value of a fine beef steer
would be much greater than a steer
of inferior weight and condition, yet.
‘the tax would have to be the same.
The same condition would prevail
as to all other animals killed for
■food.
The guarantee of the constitution
<of every roan’s right to have his
grievances hea*d before a court w*s
also presented to the president force¬
fully as a reason why the decision of
the secretary of agriculture should
not be made final, as would be the
•case should the words “in the discre-
tion of the secretary of agriculture”
be inserted throughout the measure.
In this argument, it is understood,
the president acquiesced on the
■ground of its containing a fundamen¬
tal principle of guaranteed rights.
TO TRAIN GUNS ON OIL COMBINE.
General Announces that Uncle
Attorney Preparing to Prosecute.
Sam is announcement of the
The formal government to pres-
purpose of the
* the Standard Oil company was
* eC 'de te Washington Friday
™ a public in
Attorney General Moody. It ap-
from Us statement that tne
pears in the first instance Mill
proceedings 1 Elkins law, which
toe had 1 under the
prohibits rebates in interstate com-
merce. The attorney general, how-
gives notice that should the
ever, justify it, be will
vestigatlon under the
further action
anti-trust law.
samples of “pure" food
Arrayed Before Speaker's Desk Makes
Hall of House Look Like Minia¬
ture Grocery Store.
The space in front of the speaker’s
desk of the house resembled a small
section of a corner grocery Thursday,
with cereals, jams, jellies, tins of
peas, tomatoes, corn, bottles of whis¬
key and wine, imported sausage and
other edibles and drinkables scat-
tered over two tables, and to com
pleto the picture there were stand¬
ard scales with weights, a graduate
and funnel for the purpose of dem¬
onstrating the contention of the ma¬
jority of the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, that a pure
food bill is necessary for the protec¬
tion of the people.
The house went into committee ot
the whole for the consideration of
the pure food bill, Mr. Mann uegm
ning the discussion.
Mr. Mann contrasted the features
of the senate and house bills, remark¬
ing that it was not the aim of the
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce to recommend leg-
islation as to what the people should
eat or drink, but to call attention to
what they are eating or drinking.
‘Medicines now on the market ad-
vertised in the strongest terms to
cure °Pi um habit,’ said Mr. Mann,
“ show on investigation enough opium
to develop tne opium habit.”
Most of the goods are not adulter¬
ated, according to Mr. Mann, and
since the pure food agitation, which
began a number of years ago, there
has been a decided reduction in adul-
terations. "Yet,” he said, “every¬
where the honest manufacturer or
dealer goes, he is met my sharp and
keen competition from adulterations
or short weights.”
He read a letter from the German-
American Extract Works, in which
they told how to make all kinds of
liquors. They were especially inter¬
ested, he said, in their Old Tom Gin
extracts, which give the exact taste
of the original article. Then to stifi
further interest the house, he salt*,
that this firm claims to make any
kind of liquor out of lethal alcohol
with no liquGr in it.
Black pepper, he said, is a fruitful
source of adulteration, the “filler” be¬
ing sold in five-ton weights, accord¬
ing to a letter which Mr. Mann read.
Pepper berries, he said, were made
out of tapioca, colored with lamp¬
black.
“The coffee that we urink, Mocha
and Java,” said Mann, "is generally
adulterated with Brazil coffee, and
ground coffee with sawdust, and even
bread crusts.”
Taking his position behind the ta¬
bles, Mr. Mann began a rapid expla¬
nation of every ar'icle there.
Taking up a bottle of bright colored
cherries marked “Marischino cher¬
ries,” he explained that the cheifies
had been picked green; that they were
then bleached and colored with anah
ine dye, and this bright colored bit
of cloth, he said, “this cloth was
dyed with the same dye.
“What are these cherries for?” ask¬
ed a member.
“I understand they are used one
r.t a time in a well known drink,”
replied 'Mr. Mann, amid laughter,
some of the members recognized the
cocktail which goes with the cherry*.
Holding up a boule with a light
colored liquid in it, Mr. Mann said it
was honey, "yet it never saw a hive,
much less a comb. It is fresh from
the glucose factory.” Freezin, he
said, was a powder sold to preserve
meat like cold storage. He admitted
that it might keep meats from spoil-
| ing, but that it was most injurious
i to health, being composed cf sulphate
of soda and red coal tar dye. A
fine grade of olive oil used by the
Union League Club of Philadelphia
turned out to be cot’on seed oil, with
I an adulterant.
Taking up the subject of canned
tomatoes, Mr. Mann held up three
cans, each being of different weight,
and yet all bought for three pounds.
“The department stores of New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and
Washington and the mail order hous-
es sell the short weight cans,” said
Mr. Mann, whicii was received with
; applause.
BODY OF LESTER ENTOMBED.
Funeral and Burial of Dead Congressman
Largely Attended.
The funeral of the late Congress-
ma n Rufus E. Lester took place Wed-
nesday afternoon from St. John’s
church in Savannah. It was largely
attended, a great concourse of citi¬
zens appearing at the church to nay
the last tokens of respect to the mem-
0 rv of the distinguished dead. The
cortege that fololwed the body to its
resting place in historic Bonavent.ure
cemetery was of great length, and the
closing service at the grave was marl*
tl by great solemnity.
REBATERS ARE
TTFAVTT * A *-*^*’ * Y FINFD A •U"***'
Judge Imposes Sentence on Seven
in Court at Kansas City.
TOTAL AMOUNT $85,000.
Two Men are Given Prison Tams.
Switt, Cudahy, Armour and Morris
Must Pay Sum ot $15,000 Each.
In the United States district court
at Kansas City Friday, Judge Smith
McPherson of Red Oak, Iowa, passed
sentence on the seven defendants re¬
cently convicted in this court of mak¬
ing concessions and accepting and
conspiring to accept rebates on ship¬
ments. Judgments in the nature of
fines were assessed as follows:
Swift & Co., $15,000.
Cudahy Packing Company, $15,000.
The Armour Packing Company,
$15,000.
Nelson Morris & Co., $15,000.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railway, $15,000.
George L. Thomas of New York
was fined $0,000 and sentenced to four
months in the penitentiary.
L. B. Taggart of New York was
fined $4,000 and sentenced to three
months in the penitentiary.
The fine of $15,000 assessed
against the Burlington covered all
four counts, the aggregate amount of
the fines in the seven cases totaling
$85,000.
Appeals were filed in each case and
a stay of execution was granted un¬
til June 29, until they could be per¬
fected. The bonds in the case of
Thomas and Taggart were fixed at
$6,000 each. These two men appeared
in court personally, and, upon being
sentenced, promptly furnished the re¬
quired bond. The bonds in the case
of the packing companies and the
Burlington were fixed at $15,000
each.
Tne sentence was passed in the va¬
rious cases, after which motions for
new trials were made by John C.
Cowan of Omaha and Frank Hagar-
man of Kansas City, for the pack¬
ers, and by Judge O. M. Spencer of
St. Joseph upon behalf of the Bur¬
lington railroad and Thomas and
Taggart. All these motions were over¬
ruled.
The indictments on which the vari¬
ous defendants were tried were re¬
turned in Kansas City by the grand
jury on December 13, 1905.
George L. Thomas of 'New York
city, a freight broker, and his chief
clerk, L. B. Taggart, whose case wa3
the first to be tried, were convicted
of securing rebates from railways on
shipments from St. Louis to Kansas
City dry goods firms.
In this trial several merchants tes¬
tified to having received various sums
of money from mysterious sources.
(Several thousand dollars were thus
received, and several witnesses admit¬
ted the likelihood of its having coma
from Thomas. The penalty provided
is a fine of not less than $1,000 and
not more than $10,000, or imprison¬
ment for not more than two years,
or both.
LABOR FEDERATION OF GEORGIA
Names New Officials and Passes Several
Important Resolutions.
The Georgia State Federation of
Labor, in session at Augusta, passed
resolutions Friday demanding that the
union label be exacted on all base¬
ball tickets and declared unfair to
organized labor the American Bell
Telephone company.
D. P. O’Connell was elected pres¬
ident and Savannah was chosen as
the next place of meeting. Among
the other officers are J. R. Bridwell,
Atlanta, second vice president, and
W. C. Puckett, Atlanta, secretary and
treasurer.
The resolution to make William R.
Hearst a life member of the organ¬
ization was voted down.
The body passed the ant.i-Estiil res¬
olution, the beer bottle labels reso¬
lution and the resolution in favor of
the child labor bill.
CONFESSION BY A WIFE SLAYER.
Brash Became Enamoured of Another Wo-
man and Put 8pous® Out ol the- Way.
Charged with the murder of his
wife and having made a complete
confession of his crime to the police,
William Brash of Rochester, N. Y.,
was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, Fri-
day. arrested Mrs. Mary
With Brash was
Gilmore, with whom he is alleged to
have eloped. found
The body of Brash’s wife was
In the canal a tRochester several days
ago, and suspicion was at once turned
to her husband, who had disappeared,
PASSES PURE FOOD BILL.
houses Takes Action on Most Impor-
tant Measure by an Overwhelming
Majority Vote.
After an hour spent in the consid¬
eration of privileged reports, the
house Saturday resumed the consid¬
eration of the pure food bill.
Everything was smooth sailing' un¬
til the so-called "package amendment"
was reached.
Mr. Mann of Illinois, In eharge ot
the bill, offered the oommittee amend¬
ment, heretofore printed, that the time
the package was put up must be on
the container, together with the
weight or measure, on the outside
of the package.
A dossen members were on their
feet, immediately after the reading
of the amendment.
Mr. Sherman of New York offered
au amendment in substance striking
out the time provision. Mr. Sherman
said that under the penalty provided
the weight and measure, if stated,
must be onrrectely stated, which, he
argued, was very difficult. He said
that this was a most serious ques¬
tion, involving, as it did. vast int»>
ests, and it should not be hastily
considered.
Mr. Mann responded to this and
other speeches opposing the commit¬
tee amendment, giving the house an¬
other “demonstration” from behind
his improvised grocery counter ot
some of the ways of packers and can-
ners. The Sherman amendment was
voted down.
Then the friends of ‘straight" whis¬
key were routed by the friends of
the rectifiers by a vote of 34 to 76,
defeating an amendment by Mr. Rich¬
ardson of Alabama in behalf of the
makers of “straight" whiskey.
Mr. Sherley of Kentucky in behalf
of the rectifiers held the clOfv> a t -
tenticn of the house, as he explained
the contention of the two whiskey
camps, the- distillers and the recti¬
fiers. Among other things, he said:
“Now what, makes the purity of
whiskey and how is it made? Whis¬
key may be made out of corn, rye,
barley or various other grains. Its
quality depends upon the quality of
the grain, the quality of the yeast,
the cleanliness of the mash tubs and
the proper distillation. There is not
one line of the internal revenue lav/
that looks to an inspection of the
grain to see whether it is a pure
grain or a musty grain; there is
a line to say that when the whiskey
is distilled it is properly
so as to get rid of the first rim
the last run, or which contains the
worst elements in whiskey.”
The speech of Sherley brought Mr.
Stanley of Kentucky into the arena in
front, of the speaker’s wesk to dem¬
onstrate how the “blender” makes
"blended” whiskey. He said he had
no objection to anybody blending two
kinds of whiskey, but he did object
to making whiskey while you wait.
Then, taking a bottle from the table,
he poured it into a graduate and
said:
“Here is a quart of alcohol, 100
proof strong. It, will eat the int-a.-A-
tines out of a coyote. It will make
n howling dervish out of an anchor¬
ite. It. will make a rabbit, spit in a
bull-dog’s face. It is pure alcohol
and under*the skill of the rectifier
he will put in a little coloring mat¬
ter and then a little bead oil fillin'-
trat.ing), [ drop that in it. Then I
get a little essence of bourbon whis¬
key and there is not a connoisseur
in this house who can tell the hellish
business from -the genuine article
and that is what r denounce. (Ap¬
plause.) I say that the coloring mat¬
ter is not harmful; [ say that the
caramels are not harmful, but I say
that the body stock of the whiskey
I made is rank aloohol and when
it gets into a man it is pure hell.’
(Applause.)
The vote was then taken on the
amendment of Mr. Richardson, and
it was defeated.
A number of other amendment.-
wore offered, but in the main were
defeated. 1 he amendment,
was merely a change in the verbiage
The committee then arose and the
b'il was passed by a vote of 2i2 t.c
17.
fHj packing irani < loses down.
p u! j a |jy KeAent*. Newspaper “vluii-Minginq
and Adverse legislation "
The Louisville Packing company,
said to be the largest plant
'• v the Cudahy Packing company of
Chicago, was closed for an indefinite
period Saturday. The plant was es-
tablished in 1S92, employed about 350
men, and had an annual output ol
10,000 sheep, 20,000 cattle, and 300,
hogs.
The reasons given for closing down
were “newspaper mud-slinging and
adverse legislation.”
A FEVER CASE
IN LOUISIANA
Patient is Cuban Sailor Arriving
on Steamer from Havana.
PROMPTLY QUARANTINED
President of State Board of Health Of¬
ficially Reports Case—No Fears of
Another Epidemic.
One case of yellow fever was re¬
ported at the Mississippi river quar¬
antine station, 97 miles below New
Orleans, Sunday. This is the first case
of yellow fever reported in Louisiana
this year by the state board of health.
'Hie patient is a Cuban sailor, who
arrived at quarantine on June L8
on the steamer Holstein rrom Ha¬
vana. His temperature being above
normal, he was taken off the steamer
and detained for observations. Satur¬
day night during an official visit of
inspection of members of the state
board of health and the Louisiana
legislature to the quarantine station,
a consultation of physicians deckled
tlie case as yellow fever. The Hol¬
stein is still detained at quarantine,
having been disinfected after tne
sailor was taken off and ordered to
lie at anchor for six days before pro¬
ceeding to New Orleans. No other
cases of elevated temperature have
yet appeared on the Holstein.
Dr. C. H. Irion, president, of the
state board of health, said to the .n-
specting party that he does not be¬
lieve that yellow fever is endemic at
New Orleans or in Louisiana. Ha
held that developments so far this
year, in which no cases of yellow
fever have been found by tho board
in the state except, the one brought
on the Holstein from Havana, indi¬
cates that l he disease does not orig¬
inate locally.
He said that so long as present
quarantine regulations are maintain¬
ed in Louisiana he believes there will
never be another epidemic of yellow
fever in New Orleans. AI present five
quarantine stations are operated by
the state along the Gulf of Mexico
coast.
The existence of yellow fever at
Rio Janeiro and also of two cases of
bubonic plague at. that port, were re¬
ported to the state board by officers
of the steamer Sallust, arriving Sun¬
day. The Sallust was disinfected at
quarantine both for fever and bu¬
bonic plague, although none of ihe
steamer's crew had been allowed
ashore at Rio Janeiro.
PRESIDENT EO VISIT ISTHMUS.
Trip for Investigation is Planned for Latter
Part ol November.
President Roosevelt will visit tho
Ytdiunus of Panama to make a per¬
sonal investigation of the work of
construction of the Panama canal.
This announcement was made at
the white bouse late Saturday after¬
noon by Secretary Loeb, after a con¬
ference with the president.
The president will leave Washing-
ton for Panama the latter part of
next October or in the early days
of November, He will be absent
about three weeks.
Beyond the bare decision to mako
the trip, the president has reached
practically no conclusion as to details
GREAT CfllBRAllON in panama
Will Be Observance ol the Glorious fourth
bv Conn! Employees.
A Washington dispatch says: Em-
pioyees of the isthmian canal com-
mission on the canal zone will have
3 regular old-fashioned Fourth of
, Special
July celebration in Panama.
excursions are to run *o Panama for
the accommodation of persons desir¬
ing to attend the exercises, Money
i, as been raised by popular subscrip-
tjon among the canal employees au«l
30n t to Washington for fireworks.
Governor Magoon and other proml-
nent. men in the isthmus will make
addresses and lend their assistance
In making the day a memorable one.
ONE UNION LABEL FOR All
Is Proposition to Be Placed Before Work¬
men of the Country.
The executive council of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor adjourned
at Washington after considering all
questions left over.
The subject of a universal label tor
the various international unions was
taken up.
President Gompers has authority te
sound the attitude of the unions and
to report the result to the executive
council for action A: the next general
convention.
