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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.