The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24
Senator Bailey Thinks It
 Unconstitutional.
POLICE POWERS OF THE STATE
lnfringed Upon by Provision for
 Inspection of Live Stock.
MT. Beveridge Maintains That the Chnrees Suggested by the Texan Would Not Remedy the De-
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 Washington, June 23-That there. is fatal defect, in the meat inspection provision of the agriculture appropria- ton bill as it came from the House of Representatives is the opinion of Sem ator Bailey as expressed in the sem ate today. when consideration of Sena- tor Proctor's motion to send the bill to conference was resumed
 He based his criticism on the clause relating to the inspection of stock en- tering the packing houses. saying that 1t gives a police supervision that the Federal governemnt cannot exercise. He suggested that the provision should be made to read so as to make it un- lawful to transport from one State to another any beef or beef products that have not been inspected as pro vided for by law.
 He contended that the provision as 1t stands is not so worded as to IT ake it conform to the constitutional pro- vision concerning interstate commerce. The inspectors could never determine which of the cattle. sheep or swine are to go into interstate commerce and he predicted there would be another ex- plosion and another agitation when the matter Is taken into the courts as he had no doubt It would be If there was no amen dments. MT. Bialey ex- pressed himself as anxious to secure the most drastic inspection because he said he was satisfied that nothing less would restore confidence and save sthe beef business from almost utter annihilation.
 MT. Beverfdge's Objection.
 Senator Beveridge said that under the form suggested by Mir. Bailey the inspection would still have to be con- ducted at the packing house and urged that the change would not alter the case.
 The interests of the cattle grower were presented by Senator Warren He contended that the government should pay the cost of the inspection.
 He called attention to the fact that the government had appropriated for the Eypsx moth extesminatton and SotlhAr olagues
 Chairman Proctor of the agrieultur- al committee said the comparison was not happy one as one of the evils he mentioned came from providence and the other from packing houses.
 Mir. Beveridge expressed the opin- ion that every industry that needs in . spection should pay for 1t.
 Continuing his speech favoring ac- ton by Congress to take care of the expense of the cost of inspection. Mir. Warren in reply to numerous inter- ruptions. said it was arrant nonsense to say that future congresses will not be wise enough to deal with increased expenses out of increased revenues. He said he expected future members of the Senate to be as wise as himself and almost as wise as the Senator from Indiana.
 The suggestion was made by MT. Car ter that it is economy on the part of the government to pay for the inspec- tion, for if 1t were put on the packers, they would put 1t on the stock raisers and farmers and in the end 1t would be put on the consumers.
 Consumers f-unt Pay.
 MT. Warren said that packers would recover anything charged against them for inspection from the stock raisers or consumers.
 After he had spoken for some time, MT Beveridge said he would not ask Mir. Warren to answer any more ques- tons, as he was in hurry to send the bill to conference.
 MT. Warren and Mir. Beveridge had done a great work in getting the in- spectionF act placed on the agricultural bill and added
 "But. that was an escspade. ap elopement in the night. if may say if, without many clothes, and he ought not to object to having his measure clad in the way that was done by the House and approved by the President"
 How about the dates on the cans?" asked MT. Beveridge
 If the Senator wants an answer to that, he must withdraw his inferred request for me to hurry through my remarks" said Mir. Warren. He added that he was willing to leave to MT. Beveridge the question of figures and dates concerning which he knew more than he did of cattle and cattlemen.
 MT. Beveridge said again that he would withdraw his question relating to dates on the cans in the interest of rushing the bill to conferences
 Well then, I replied the Wyoming Senator. T will leave the matter of rushing the can to the Senator from Indiana. He can rush the can as he pleases and I will follow him. l will devote my remarks to q discussion of the expense of inspection
 Tn reply to a remark by MT Nelson that it is only the range eattlemen that object to paying the cost of in- sneetion. MT. Warren placed in the record a large number of telegrams dJsnutine this point He said that the very bill under discussion appropriates for the birds of the air. protection of fruits, experimenting in fowl raising and everything except cattle
 One Poor old Cow.
 The poor old COW IS legislated le~ ~nI n f tsa geese. the turkeys. the birds of the eIr 6o not have to pay for inspection hncause they are not a COW. The in- snection of miscellaneous insects is pro- yISed for, and the government pays for It. ,, .So v..i,, ,. men miscellaneous inseets?" asked MT. Nelson. .p -aniied MT. Warren, he cannot provoke .,,i into defending the packers" Senator Gallinger followed MT War ran in the interest of a thorough in snection of meat products at the ex- penso of the packers.
 "A fer the wretched and revolting ex nose of the condition of things at the backing houses of Chicago, have very little sympathy for the men engaged in the packing business" he said, and he declared that if those men who made millions out of the public were of proper public spirit they would have their slaughter places as wholesome and sanitary as the Senate Chamber it. self. He spoke of the frequency of ptomalLe poisoning and congratulated the Senators that none of them had ..E.sav,n to alqn