Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-19
MEAT BILL PASSES
inspection Measure Goes
Through the House.
GOVERNMENT BEARS COST
Quite a Love Feast on the
Floor.
NO DIVISION CALLED FOR
Measure Satisfactory to the Bulk Of
the House-President Said to
Agree.

almost unanimous vote, today passed the
meat inspection amendment to the agri-
cultural appropriation bill just as agreed
upon yesterday as a compromise by the
President. Speaker Cannon and the ma
jority members of the agricultural COM
mlttee. The proceedings on the floor were
rather interesting. particularly in view of
the fact that the controversy over the meat
inspection bill promised only short time
ago to be fraught with serious consequences
Practically all the members of the House
were in their seats when Representative
Wadsworth of New York. chairman OF the
agricultural committee. took the floor to ex-
plain the bill and the changes that had
been made in 1t since yesterday morning,
when II was recommitted for further con-
sideration.
Mr. wadsworth told the House in very
emphatic tones that the committee had
made only slight amendments to their orig
mai bill. Most of these amendments were
mere changes in verbiage-in fact. this was
the case with all except two; the civil serv-
ice proposition and the court review clause.
He went over these minor amendments.
touching briefly on them in several instances
to show that the committees original
provision and the changes Incorporated at
the suggestion of the President differed
only In the matter of words and were aim
ed to provide, and In his opinion did pro-
vide. for precisely the same things.
SAID MI. WdQSWOrtl, II THESE
amendments will act as a soothing syrup
and will have a pacifying and quietiug eff
feet, why then the committee Is very happy
to have made Them" cloud applause and
laugh
Court Review Clause.
Taking up the court review clause Mr..
Wadsworth said that after consultation with
the best lawyers in the House the commit
tee had come to the conclusion that the
court review clause necessary /
there also omitted from the bill the
language lin the judgment of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture. which left final de-
cision to that official. AS the bill now stood
he explained the packers had their relief
whenever they desired IL under the general
law, and could invoke whenever they wish
ed the Jurisdiction of the federal judge of
their particular district. And then Mr..
Wadsworth added something of consider
able significance in view of a recent sug-
gestion by the President that under the
court review clause the packers might find
another Judge Humphrey.
LAS for me- he said slowly and empress
siveiy. IT make no differentiation In honesty
between a United States Judge in Chicago.
in st. Louis. In Kansas City or any other
place where slaughtering is carried on
Great applause).
Representative Lamb of Virginia then ex
pressed the views of the minority members
of the committee and congratulated the
committee on having adopted In these brief
amendments everything that the minority
members had commended for. save the pro-
vision putting the cost of inspection on the
packers instead OF on the government. This
he said was the only thing In the bill thai
the minority members were opposed to.
He thought that the evildoers should be
forced to pay the expense made necessary
in the correction of conditions In packing
town.
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, the
minority floor leader announced that he
intended to vote for the bill as 1t stood.
He favored the packers paying the cost.
but he was pretty well satisfied with the
measure In other respects, and thought
the people were lucky to have secured as
drastic legislation as they had.
Mr.. Williams Views.
Then. assuming, his quizzical expression
Mr.. Williams remarked that he had been
waiting with great interest the outcome Of
the threatened fight between the two gen.
tlemen of New York. lone at the other
end of the avenue and one on the floor OF
this House." but he supposed that 1.-THE
winter of our discomfort has been made
glorious summer by one of the gentlemen
from New York" (Applause.)
Mr.. Williams remarked that there had
been some laundering at the other end or
the avenue that had not been followed up.
Men of iron. like other products of the
pose. also subject to expansion and con-
traction with the various changes of the
weather. applause and laughter)
There has also been considerably muck
rakng goius on" said Mr.. Williams, land
l want right now to pay my sincere tribute
to a member OF this House. Mr. Wads-
worth. this particular proposition.
think he Is mistaken. but honestly mis-
taken sincerely mistaken, but there has
been, as / have said. a good deal of muck
raking and l want to say word or two.
served for a number of years on COM
mittee with Mr.. Wadsworth. and during
that time he cast more votes against his
own interest than did any other man on the
committee. loud applause) He is an
honest man. More applause)
"IIe is an honest man. IL God makes hon
est men. cloud and continued applause) If
there had been a conflict between the two
gentlemen from New York-Mr. Roosevelt
been with the first one named. but my heart
with this one on the floor" Oong continued
applause)
Cost of Inspection.
Representative De Almond of Missouri
paid a tribute to the minority members of
the agricultural committee for standing out
against the proposition that the government
pay the entire cost of inspection In the
packing houses. He sarcastically referred
to the dreadful burden that would be placed
upon the millionaire packers of the country
by the imposition OF tax OF cents for the
inspection of each beef carcass and of 8
cents for the Inspection of each hog or
sheep killed.
Representative Adams of Wisconsin, who
had great deal to do with framing the
compromise proposition passed today, told
the House of the various stages through
which the bill had passed before reaching
It's present shape. He called special atten-
ton to the fact that Thomas E. Wilson
who represented the Chicago packers before
the agricultural committee, had admitted
that every one of the recommendations
made in the Neili- Reynolds report should
be carried out. Mr. David of Minnesota
then spoke for a few minutes, urging his
objections to the government paying the
inspection expense, and following this the
Speaker put the question. There was no
need for a division. as only the minority
members of the committee and one or two
democrats voted against the bill in Its pres-