Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-27
Hepburn Has Two Important
Bills Which He Hopes Will
Become Laws
PURE FOOD BILL ONE OF THEM
General Demand for the Enactment of
Measure That Will Prevent Food
Aduteration-BIl to Establish De-
partment of Commerce Will Be Urged
at the Short Session.
Special to Times Republican.


expects to put thru congress at the
coming session two bills in which he is
] greatly interested and TO the perfection
/ of which he has devoted much time and
labor One of these is the pure food bill
which he hopes to have considered by
the house and senate simultaneously,
as there is certainly a general demand
for the enactment of such measure
in the face of the showings which are
made by the United States agricultural
department, as we'll as the several state
{ departments of agriculture that but
small number of the articles of every
day consumption are unaduitefateo,
and that we are constantly having our
internal machinery put out OF gear by
ground up minerals deleterious to the
human system, used to weight our pax
ing powders, peppers, sugar, nour etc.
The other measure Mr.. Hepburn ex-
poets will be beneficial to our CONNER
cial health, as it provides for the es-
Establishment of a department OF COM
nsrce, with cabinet officer at its head,
who, as everybody knows,will be George
Is. Cortelyou, the presidents private
secretary.
Colonel Hepburn came to Washing
ton about the middle of November to
confer with the persons from the sew
eral departments who We're to have
been appointed by the president for the
purpose of settling the difficulties which
arose last spring in regard to the re-
nloval of certain bureaus now existing
in other departments, and which appar-
emily would properly become constitu-
ent parts of the new department when
established. But for some as yet unex-
planned, reason the president failed to
make any appointments for this pur-
pose, and the colonel has had to think
it out all alone, SO far.
However. he has seen Mr.. Roosevelt |
about the matter and there is no doubt |
that it will receive the serious attention |
of the executive, and that a measure
will be enacted creating, this new de- |
partment before the adjournment of the t
short session, but it is about certain that I
the agricultural department will not be
allowed to surrender its division of sta
tistics, for the committee appointed b.
the national board of trade to decide I
the crop reports as prepared by the
census bureau and those of the agricul- I
tural department division. have COM /
mended the latter and recommended
that Secretary Wilson be given an ap-
sufficient to make the di-
vision big bureau" thus joining
hands with the Southern Cotton Grow
ers' Association. whose resolutions to
rfi "a coy "a
weeks ago.
A state department report from Mon
treal, Canada, declares that millions of
dollars of American capital have re-
Gently been invested in the dominion
in agricultural and timber lands, as well
rs in mining and manufacturing inter-
asts. the effect of which, it is shown,
has been to arouse the Canadians them
selves to acknowledgment and to a
throwing aside of their old time con-
serva tism.
An American steel company with {
capital stated a 100000, 600, has bought
Up 1000 acres of iron ore, said to be the
most remarkable deposit known, and !
5000 acres of coal lands. The president
If the company has already made con-
racts to deliver thousands of tons of !
ron ore in this country and Great Bri- !
ain. a New York company with sim !
lar amount of capital has recently APP !
olied for incorporation and will refine 9
sugar by a new method which, 1t is
'laimed, reduces the cost of producing
'efined sugar SIS per ton. 1t will be To-
lated at Montreal S
Another large American Industry, the l
'eport says is attempting to evade the I
luty of % per cent on agricultural +
machinery and establishing itself at c
Toronto. This company will produce
hreshing machines and traction en- Q
zines. Four other American companies t
re locating plants in Ontario for the I
of agricultural machinery. y
Other American industries now seek .
ng locations in Canada include an oil 4
company capitalized at 100000 in On C
ario; marble company at Toronto
With capital of 100000 empowered
o manufacture a composition known as
oral marble, used for flooring; an ex-
ensive plant for the manufacture of
namel baths of porcelain in Quebec
which, when completed, will be large
nough to supply the entire demand for
hese goods In the dominion.
An American company at Montreal
With capital of $1,000,O00, will carry
N the business of a foundry, machine
hop, factory engine, structural metal.
'oat and bridge building establishment
others yet are cereal company CANT
al stock of 100000; million dollar
corporation TO manufacture engines.
wheels, and heating and
rying apparatus, and an actinolite
ompany, which has secured 1900. 900
ores of spruce lands in the dominion.
In addition to these hives tments, the
eport says that many American syn
icates have been looking over the
round in Canada in the last few
aonths, among them paper company,
1hich, it is said, will develop the indus
ry at once.
In agricultural, graging and timber
lnds, Americans have invested many
lilions of dollars, and Minneapolis and
It. Paul syndicates are promoting emil
ration to the Canadian northwest.
5hither over $4,000 settlers, have gone
uring the past year.
Detection is Not Serious.
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