The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-05-31
PRESIDENT NOT TO Be
LENIENT WITHPACKERS
Insists That Beveridge Bill
Must Pass at This
Session.
REAL PROTECTION POLICY
1t Conserves the Health of the Meat
Eaters at Home as Well as Abroad
-NeilI Report Held Up
Temporarily.

Washington, May Ex-senator Cu!-
1on, Speaker Cannon, Representative
Lorirncr and Representative Madden,
all Of Illinois, called at The White House
IN behalf of the Chicago packers. The
packing interests insist that the Bev-
eridsc bill is too stringent and should
be modified in some of its provisions.
The president not only refused to
make the concessions, but insisted upon
the passage of the Beveridge bill at
this session of congress. The Illinois
senators and representatives are I'M
willing to go on record as opposing the
inspection of the packing house prod
ucts, but felt hat it was their duty
to present the wishes of constituents
who represent such tremendous bust
ness interests. Senator Beveridge gave
an interview after the visit of the Hi
,nOiS delegation to the White House,
passage of the bill. Senator Beveridge
asserted with some show of heat that
it was just as essential to protect
Americans from impure foods as to
protect the foreign trade of the pack
erS.
Won't Tell About Neill Report.
Nobody knows who is willing to tell
Just how minutely the Neill report
goes into the sanitary conditions of
the Chicago packing houses. The pres
1dent has not given a binding promise
to keep this report from the public.
All that he has told many of the del
egatiOnS which a called on him in
the interests Of the cattlemen and pack
crs is that a correction of abuses may
render it unnecessary to publish the re-
port. The only senator who is posi-
lively known to be in possession of the
essential facts in the report is Du-
bois. OF Idaho, and it is extremely sig
terestcd in the case through the urgent
representations Of the cattle interests.
The president saw that the Idaho sen
ator was honestly trying to protect in
t~erests of the cattlemen and with char
actcristic candor told him just why he
thought it imperative to secure the pas
sage of the Beverage bill. From the
moment the Idaho senator was &C
quainted with the facts he became most
insistcnt on the passage of the bill.
When informed that a point of order
might be raised against the bill on the
ground that it was new legislation, he
threatened TO make a speech and init
mated that what he would tell the
country would be backed by a message
from the president.
To Protect Americans, Too.
0hc facts which have developed have
caused public men to think more deeply
on the subject of American trade than
ever before. 1t was because of the
strict sanitary regulations of Germany
tina American meats We're first OBJ
jected 10 in that country and it was to
meet the foreign conditions that the
government inspection vas provided.
The Investigations Of the agricultural
department have shown that 1t was
imperative to protect Americans
against the cupidity of American
tradesmen Of all kinds and recent revel-
atoms have brought acutely to the
front the necessity for the most string
NEGOTIATIONS of all foo products.
There is no disposition to impose eX-
cessivc burdens on the packers. but the
government is desperately in earnest in
the matter and it will not stop until
it has provided regulations which make
1t absolutely certain that American
of American products are
not imposed upon. The government
also takes the position that it will be
infinitely better for the cattle interests
ana the packing interests as we'll as
for t. , whole world to understand that
only pure food products can come from
American houses.
The president has sent copies OF the
Neill rerort to the managers of all
packing houses and asked them to
point out any misstatements.