Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-16
WOULD DELAY REFORM
Writes Letter to Chairman Wadsworth
Of House Committee on Agriculture
-sIII to Fix Maximum Hours Of
Continuous Employment for Rail-
road Men at Sixteen Hours.

tary Loeb today gave out the follow
Ing summary Of the letter President
Roosevelt wrote Chairman Wads-
worth Of the house committee on ag-
riculture, disappearing of that COM
mittee's substitute for the Beveridge
amendment to the agricultural bill re-
garding the inspection of meat prod
ucts.
In the letter to wadsworth the
President stated that almost every
change in the proposed house amend
ment was a change for worse as COM
pared with the senate amendment, and
that no matter how unintentionally it
was, in the Presidents Judgment, SO
framed as to minimize the chance Of
roofing out the evils in the packing
business.
Will Suit Some Packers.
That the President felt it would
doubtless suit these packers who OBJ
jected to thorough going inspection,
but that he also felt it would in the
long run be heavy blow to the hon
est stock raiser and honest packers.
That the proposed amendment
would gravely hamper the secretary
Of agriculture in doing the work ap-,
pointed him to do; would simply de-
fer the day when we could restore
foreign and interstate trade on meat
to aSsatisfestoysgpesittop.
Questionsof Cost.
!, The President has explained verb
Ially that he is far less concerned with
5the question as to whether the pack
ers or the government should pay for
In Ar%f Ion ia II, .fo{ NJ thnr
features in the bill"
sundry, Civil Bill.
Both the speaker and chaplain were
absent when the house convened to-
day, Clerk Mcdowell calling the house
to order. Representative Dalzell Of
Pennsylvania was elected speaker pro
tenn.
The consideration Of the sundry
civil bill was resumed.
Hours for Trainmen.
The house committee on interstate
commerce today authorized a favor.
able report on the senate bill making
the maximum number of hours of con-
tinuous labor for railway trainmen
at sixteen, with test period of ten
hours.
Talk on Canal.
In the house today Littauer Of New
York, member of the committee on
appropriations, offered an amendment
to the paragraph in the sundry civil
bill appropriating $4,000, 900 for the
continuation Of the Panama canal and
providing that no part of the sums ap-
propriated shall be used for the con-
struct1on Of canal of the so-called
J sea-level type.
Burton of Ohio was recognized for
an hours speech in favor of the lock
canal
Speaker Scores.
This conference report on the state
hood bill passed the lower house yes
terday afternoon without a dissenting
vote and at 6 o'clock received the sig
nature of President Roosevelt, thus be-
coming a law.
A most dramatic scene occurred
when Speaker Cannon left the chair
took his old place on the floor and
with his body shaking vehemently de-
MED the jnsinuation just made by Del
egate Smith of Arizona that undue In
fluence had been used in postponing an
agreement
Tremendous applause greeted the
speaker when he took the floor, his re-
marks we're punctuated by roars Of ap-
plause and when he had concluded re-
publicans and democrats crowded
around him to wiring his hand.