Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-05
BEEF PACKERS mott
Seeking A HEARING
NO DIRECT OBJECTION YET
HEARD ON BEvERIDGE MEAT
INSPECTION BILL.
PROTESTS RECEIVED
FROM CATTLE RAiSERS
Trust Men May Be Working Through
Latter-cost of New System Said
to Be Chief Objection to Amend
ment.

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Washington, June mo applica.
ton to be heard on the Beveridge
beef inspection amendment has been
made to the house committee on agri.
culture by the packers, and no meet
ing OF the committee has been called to
consider this and other senate amend.
ments to the agricultural appropria-
ton bill.
Representative Madden, of Illinois,
who is in close touch with the situa.
tion from the packers point of view,
says his understanding is that the
packers will make no application to
be heard, that none of them are in
Washington nor are any of them ex.
pected.
Cattle Raisers Protest.
Members of the house, however, are
receiving protests by wire against the
inspection amendment from the cattle
raisers. and it has been suggested that
if the packers are opposing the prop
osition they are working through the
cattle raisers. The opposition which
the raisers voice Is regarding the cost
of the inspection. also that corps OF
government inspectors would ultimate
~ become a dangerous political ma
chine which might be, manipulated to
the disadvantage of all concerned.
The Williams and Sulzer resolutions
calling Tor the Neill-Reynolds report
are in the custody Of the agricultural
committee. No action is contemplate
ed4at present regarding them. The
Williams resolution calls for the re.
port from the department Of COM
merce and labor, and the sulzer reso
luton calls upon the president for the
information. Fhe department Of com.
merce and labor has indicated that the
report Ia not in its possession, and
also that 1t has no information on the
matter.
Members OF the committee take the
view that the president in obtaining
the information in the Neill-Reynolds
report did so on his own initiative
and that he is under no obligations
from an official point of view to sub
NIT the report to congress should he
deem It best to withhold it. Fhe res.
olutions, under the rules Of the house,
become privileged within a week from
their introduction and may, after that
period has elapsed, be called up on
the floor Of the house.
Substitute Being Prepared.
: Chairman WadsWorth. of the house
committee on agriculture, said that
substitute for the Beveridge amend
ment is now being drawn. This sub
stitute, he said, would provide for a
complete Inspection of every phase Of
the preparation Of meat for the table;
that it would be drawn so. as to meet
the views of the president and also
the packers, whom he said were as
anxious for an adequate inspection as
anyone.
Hepreseatative Aorimer, of Illinois,
who is working with Mr.. Wadsworth
on the substitute amendment, said the
principal objections to the Beveridge
proposition from the viewpoint of the
packers were, first. the authority
GRANTED the secretary Of agriculture
to make additional regulations. There
was. he said, ne limit to this authori-
ty, which would virtually put the pow
CT Of making laws In the hands of the
secretary. Another objection was that
IL re is no provision made for court
review Of any Of the rulings of the
: .pectors. Mr.. Lorimer reiterated
'-,e anxiety Of the packers to get a
=. er inspection provision enacted
sn.o law. Government inspection of
q right kind, he said, would be bene-
fetal to the paekers as a guarantee
= their trade.