The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-01
OUR FORK Is ALL RIGHT
THE HOG WIND GATED BY EXPERTS.
A sweeping Pension Measure Introduced
in the Senate The Test Oath Respect
ed-Dak, tN-Future Of American
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
INDICATED BY EXPERTS.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.- Commissioner
Lorng has laid before the Pre- 'ident the
report Of the commission appointed to exam
inc the swine industry 1t is emphatic in the
statement that there are no conditions sur
rounding the industry which tend to propa.
gate disease or render pork unhealthful.
From the returns from railroad and
transportation companies, slaughter
houses, packers and shippers, confirmed
by those from Boards of Health, HUI
name societies, and experts employed by
the commission, it appears that the utmost
care has been preserved throughout; that
dead hogs are never transported except 10
of ,l-rendering establishments; that
diseased hogs are refused transportation:
that humane laws and sanitary regulations
exist in all stock yards, and are enforced by
local inspectors; that rigid scrutiny is en-
joined in all slaughter houses; that the
methods of slaughter and packing, and the
qualities of the material used, are regulated
by the rules of the Chamber of Commerce
and trade, and that constant care is eXer-
cised to see that no unhealthful means are
employed in any branch. The examination
proved that American pork WAS ully equal,
many. No general disease existed and the
occasional presence of trichnp was COM
paratively unmportant The report is
signed by George l. Loring as Chairman,
+. w. Blatchford of Chicago Prof. Chan
dler, of New York, DR.. ID. Il. Salmon, Of
the Department of Agriculture, and ~. ID.
Curtis, of New York.
THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
~ ba f l,n mil lad
States with Mexico by James Nmmo, Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics, has been made
public. This report is in response to reso-
luton which passed the House last January.
The most important topics treated in the re-
port are the permanency of the present
Government the security of life and proper
ty in Mexico the present encouragement
to commercial enterprises in that country
and the railroads of Mexico Mr.. NimmO
closes his report with the following allusi0n
to the future of railroads on this continent:
''The extension of railroads from the
United States into Mexico and the COM
petion of the Canadian Pacific Railway
with its branches will in the course of two or
three years place almost every habitable part
of North America within the reach of COM
mercial enterprise. In view of what has
been accomplished in railroad construction
In the Dominion of Canada, the United
States and in Mexico during the last five
years, the prediction appears to be no
longer dream of the enthusiast that
within the lifetime of men now actively EN-
gagged in business pursuits, direct railroad
communication will be established between
the United States and all the countries of
Central and South America"
THE MCPHERSON BANKING BILL,
which passed the Senate Monday, if it be-
comes law. will add about $4,000 to the
circulation of the banks of Illinois, $50, 600
to those of Iowa, and S25, 900 to those OF
Wisconsin, making the total circulation Of
Illinois banks nearly $40, 600, 900; of Iowa,
between IS, 900, 900 and $4,000, 600, and of
Wisconsin $1,000, 900. The general inn
presslou is that the bill will pass the House
and become law.
HELP FOR THE HEROES.
The bill introduced in the Senate by Sen
ator Harrison is of great importance to
soldiers and their widows. 1t provides a
pension for all soldiers who served during
the war of the rebellion in the military or
naval service for the period of six months
and were honorably discharged, provided
they are now disabled. There are many
soldiers and sailors who did not
contract disabilities during the
war of such a specific and
well defined nature as to enable them to
make proof thereof as required by law,
but are now broken down.in health by rel-
son of the hardshps and exposures of the
service. The bill grants relief to those who
had the physical strength to bear the bur
dens of the war without receiving hospital
treatment, but by reason of their long
and faithful service have since become
nvalids The highest rate Of pension
granted is S24, which is made Invisible &C.
cording to the degree of actual disability.
The bill increases the rate to Sl2 of all Wild
Ows to pensioners who contracted DISABLE
ity in and since the war OF the rebellion,
and who are now drawing IS, and fixes the
rate of snch cl INFANTS at Sl2 per month for
future pensions.
1t also provides pension for the widow
of such soldiers as may be pensiOned under
the first section of said bill, and, also, the
widows of those who served in the war Of
the rebellion shall obtain a pension under
the existing laws for disability, without the
widow being required to prove that the cause
OF death was due to service. This does not
grant a pension to all widows. but to the wild
ows of soldiers who are or may become pen
siOners. 1t grants relief to many worthy
claimants whose husbands were disabled by
reason of their military service and were
destined to die from some specific disease
from which they were lingering, but acute
disease intervening and causing their DEATH
the claimants were barred, owing to the inn
mediate cause of death not being duetO SER
vice.
\ FAVORABLE REPORT on DAKOTA.
The bill providing for the admission
of the southern part of the Territory Of
Dakota rs a State, which the Senate
Committee on Territories has agreed To
report favarablv, is similar in many
respects to the bill reported by that COM
mittee at the last session of Congress. Ii
is in most features like ordinary enabling
acts" and provides for the organiza-
ton of n State, to be known as Dakota, from
that part of the territory of tint name south
of the 46th parallel. A constitutional con-
yention is to be held on the second Tuesday
of December, the delegates to be elected
November IA, next This convention is to
include 30 delegates, the unusually large
number being required to fully represent the
people of the embryo State. Delegates are
to be elected from single districts, the
usual grants of public lands for educational
purposes made, and provision included
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