The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
No Date Goes on Label of
 Packed Meats
S3OOO,OOO ID PAY HE BILLS
Even Speaker Cannon Gets Busy On the Measure, Explaining the Sit uaton to the House Com
 mittee In Detail.

Washington, June 1S.-rhe basis of a
 complete agreement on the meat inspec-
 tion legislation between President Rooss-
 welt and the House committee on agricul-
 ture, was arrived at today at the White
 House
 Speaker canncn reported to the conn
 mittee In this instance and spent some
 time explaining the etuation to the com
 mittee in it's room at the capital The
 bill was practically completed when the committee adjourned today It will au-
 thorize an annual appropriation of SS000,- GOO to pay the cost of inspection and will
 contain no provision for the levy of an | assessment to make up any deficiency in the amount available for this work, as
 suggested by MT. Cowan, representing 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 fin the judgment of the secre-
 tary Of agriculture" will not be inserted
 as suggested by the President. and this
 conclusion now meets MT. Roosevelts ap-
 proval
 | The section wsiving the civil service law | for one year ln the selection of inspec- l tors will go out of the provision, also one
 of the Presidents recommendations. With these changes made the President
 has indicated his entire satisfaction with
 the measure which was reported from tho committee as substitute for the Bever- | dge amendment and was today recommit-
 ted to the committee that the change
 might be made.
 l There is to be no date on the label of
 the packing of meat food product. In
 this tho President yields to the commt- tee. The language which gives inspectors l the right to enter the packing plants at
 all times is ampliied by the words | "whether the same be in operation or | not"
 Speaker Cannon Active. | Ordinarily Speaker Cannon does not | take such active part in legislation as | he has in the present instance. It has
 been explained, however. that he regards | the passage of adequate meat inspec- 1 ton bill with all possible speed as yitally
 essential to the welfare of many impor-
 tant industries throughout the country | The objection which was urged to the l President as reason why he should not l insist on giving authority to the secretary | of agriculture to make up any deficiency was the constitutional provision that | Congress shall levy all texes A head tax | on animals, it was pointed out, would be l an exceedingly unequal one, as the value | of fine beef steers would be much greater | than a steer of inferior weight and con dtion, yet the tax would have been the same. The same condition was prevail | ing as to all other animals killed for |, food.
 President Is Convinced. The guarantee of the constitutional | rights of every man to have his griev- ances heard before court was also pre- l sented to the President forcefuily as to | why the decision of the secretary of agri- | culture should not be made final, as would | be the case should the words Tin the discretion of the secretary of agrculture, | be inserted throughout the measure In | this argument It is said the President acquesced on the ground of it's contain ing Fundamental principle of guaranteed 1 rights.
 | Although tomorrow and Wednesday have set apart for the passage of bills under l suspension of rules of the House. 1t is | probable that the agricultural bill will be | sent to conference without delay.