St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-20

! the stock yards east OF the Mississippi river.
The bill has already passed the house, and
unless defeated in the senate will probably
become law at this session of congress. Mr..
Storrs' inspection bill was favorably reported
by the senate foreign affairs committee to-
day.
Samuel P. Snyder and family, of Minneap-
oils, are at the Riggs.
Messrs. S. G. Comstock and a. A. White,
| of Moorhead, with their wives and children,
are quartered at the Riggs.
Geo. R. Newell and wife and Master L.
| B!odgett, of Minneapolis, arrived at Willar's
| tonight.
Western AssocIated Press
WASHINGTON, March 19.-'1he bill reported
to the senate this morning, from the COM
mittee on foreign relations, by Senator
Mills, of California, provides that there shall
be instituted, under the direction of the sec
rotary of the treasury, system of inspection
Of sailed pork and bacon intended for ex-
portation, and to be exported within sixty
days after the date upon which the same may
have been sailed and packed, so that the
fact of innoxious and wholesome character
of the article shall be established by the best,
highest and most reliable proofs. This in
spection is to be made at the principal ports
in the United States by the customs
officers. Also, that the president of the
! United States shall be authorized at his dis
erection, to exclude from the United States by
proclamation, any product of any foreign
state, which, by unjust discrimination, pro-
hibits the importation OF any product of the
United States. Ii provides further that the
importation into the United States of any
adulterated or unwholesome food, or vinous,
| spirituOus or malt liquors, adulterated or
mixed with any poisonous or noxious chem
zeal drug, or other ingredient injurious to
health, shall be hereafter prohibited, under
penalty of fine or imprisonment, or
both, the president to be authorized at
his discretion, to suspend the importation
of articles of this character by proclamation,
when he becomes satisfied that they are adul-
terated to such an extent as to be injurious to
| the health of the public. In the report &C
companying the bill, the committee, after
explaining its provisions, say they consid-
cred but one clause of the resolution, that
directing them to report to the legislature to
protect the interests of the United States,
and that, in their opinion, the bill as re-
| ported contains all the legislation necessary
for that purpose. Their conclusions are
based, they say, upon documents laid before
them, comprising correspondence on file
in the department of state, relative to the
discrimination against American pork and
pork products. In the report of the COM
mission appointed by the president to ex-
anime into the swine industry of the United
States, and to report to the chief bureau of
statistics on the production Of swine in the
United States, and the Introduction of tie
American hog products, the committee
say: "The investigations which the COM
mittee have been able to make on this sub
| ject result in establishing to the satisfaction
of the committee, among others, of two i'm
| portant propositions or matters of
fact" First, that trichine does
exist to limited extent
in swine throughout all swine producing
countries, and in the United States as well as
others. The evidence shows that about 2
per cent. of American pork is effected by
trichin@. Second, that the process of curing
pork by salt destroys trichina to such a de-
gree that pork thoroughly sailed and per-
mitted to remain long enough to be-
come saturated with salt, although infected
with trichine, is innoxious.''
THE MAKING OF WINE.
The house committee on agriculture au-
thorized favorable report to be made on the
bill to allow any person to manufacture wine
or brandy out of apples, peaches, grapes and
other perishable fruits, raised by himself or
tenants, free from any internal revenue tax
or restrictions.
FOR THE NAVY.
The appropriation committee of the senate
agreed to-day to make public communiea-
ton sent them at their request by the secre-
tary of the navy, recommending appropria-
| tons for the naval service, additional to
to those contained in the naval appropria-
ton bill as it passed the house.
In this communication the secretary of the
navy asks, that individual items in the house
bill be increased as follows: Pay, miscellan-
eous, from 1915, 900 to 1925, 900, bureau of
navigation $4,000 to S131, 900, contingent
navy expenses, from $4,000 to $25, 900, bu
reau equipment and recruiting, from $707,-
900 to $685. 900, bureau of medicine and sur
gerry, from $40, 600 to S25, 900, bureau of con-
struction and repair, from 81, 020, 900 to ST.
750, 900, bureau of steam engineering, from
$1,000 to S1,200,000. He asks that the
appropriations for the bureau
ordinance be made as follows:
General appropriation including a
civil establishment, $780, miscellaneous
items, $4,000; to purchase torpedo boats and
working drawing of the same, 5000;
machine cannon, Calling guns, magazine
rifles, and machine tools, S273.210; for
additional steel breech-loading guns,
| $500, 400, and states the sum of 100000
appropriated by the house bill for bureau,
yards and docks, is manifestly inadequate to
meet the requirements of that bureau. Each
of the requests for additional appropriations
is accompanied by a statement from the chief
of the bureau for which it is asked setting
| forth the necessity of such increase. Other
additional appropriations recommended by
the secretary of the navy are as follows:
Completing batteries for new C sers, $685.,
992; completing four double turreted moni-
tors and ordnance same, Sc, 100000; also
that there shall be appropriated $4,000, 900
towards the construction of two cruisers, one
dispatch vessel, two heavily armed gunboats,
two light gunboats, one steel ram, one
cruiser torpedo boat and two harbor torpedo
boats.
THE FAST MALI.
Postmaster General Gresham has returned
from the west, after completing the arrange
ments for the new fast mail service west of
Chicago. The negotiations with the Northern
Pacific Railroad company resulted in an ar
rangement with that company to start at 4
o'clock in the evening, the western mail from
st. Paul, which now leaves at p. N. This
train will place st. Paul mails in Portland,
Oregon, twenty-one or twenty-five hours ear
lier than the present schedule.
Speaking of the new fast mails, the post
-,
the means at our command to give the pub
lie the best possible service. The new fast
service has not cost the public dollar more
ethan the old service did. The people will
get improved facilities without additional
sostn