The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17
Roosevelt Again Writes
 to Wadsworth.
STILL DISSATISFIED, HOWEVER
Suggests Amendments to House
 Inspection Bill.
Says He Is Not Concerned With the Language, But Wishes . Measure which win Not Be . Mere
 sham.

Washington, June 1s.-President Roosevelt has added another chapter to the literature of the meat inspec- ton controversy. It was not through any desire of his that the correspond
 ence between himself and Represen- tative Wadsworth, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture. was published in it's entirety, Inasmuch. however. as Chairman wadsworth deemed it desirable that the letters should be published and gave them to the public, the President regards 1t as proper to complete the cores pondence thus far exchanged by the publication of this reply to Mir. Wads- worth's letter.
 In this letter. the President. while admitting his error in stating that l the House substitute contained no pro- vision for the making of inspections of packing houses at all hours, of the day or night, says the substitute still Is inadequate to meet the requirements of the situation. The President says | that after a conference with Repre- | sentative Adams of Wisconsin, a mem | Der of the Agricultural Committee, he | is convinced Mir. Adams will accept the suggestions made to him regarding the ' bill He says that MT. Adams. in each case stated that he personally would | accept the alterations proposed" | These changes include the elimina- | ton of the court review proposition and a dozen other alterations. In the | opinion of the President. the suggest ed changes would make the House
 Committee substitute 'as good as the | Beveridge amendment"
 Language Net Important. The President adds that he is not concerned about the language of the
 amendment, but with the accomplish | ment of the object In view, "a thor
 ough and rigid. and not 2 sham. h. | spection."
 Following Is the text of the Presi-
 dents letter to Chairman wadsworth:
 '-The White House. Washingtcn, D. C.. June 15. 1906,
 My Dear Mir, Wadswcrth; s Tn the first place. wish prompt I 1y to acknowledge one portion of your letter in which you are in the main l ment. which I accepted from Senator Beveridge. that there was no provision | for making the plants accessible at all hours to. the inspectors. The pro- vision was put in in another place; l but 1t is not as good as the original ! provision. The court provision is the one to which I most object; although ! by no means the only one to which I l object; 1t Is one of many. F "As regards this I wish to repeat that if deliberately designed to prevent the remedyins of the evils complain cd of. this is the exact provision which the friends of the packers and the packers themselves would have pro- vided. It is absurd to assert that any l such provision Is needed. Why have | you not put such provision in the | postofice law as 1t affects fraud or l ders: in the law as 1t affects fraudu-
 lent entries of homesteads: etc, etc. | Congress cannot take away the con-
 stitutional right of the packers. or of any one else. to the protection of the courts. But such a provision as that
 under consideration does not represent l a desire to secure the constitutional | rights of any man.
 | Honest But Mistaken.
 l "Tt represents doubtless. in some cas- | es, an honest, though wholly mistaken conviction; in other cases 1t repre-
 sents a deliberate purpose to interfere | with effective administration by trying | to provide that the courts shall in l reality do administrative work which | they would be the first to assert their
 inability to perform.
 | If the bill as you reported 1t from | the committee were enacted into law 1 you would have the functions of the | secretary of agriculture. narrowly llmi- | ted SC as to be purely ministeria1:. and
 when declared given slaughter house
 unsanitary, or given product un- 1 wholesome, acting on the Judgment of i the government experts, you would put on the judge. who had no knowledge
 whatever of the conditions the bur | den of stating whether or not the sec l retary was right. Tn Chicago. for in- | stance, you would make any judge l whom the packers choose to designate l and not the experts of the department I of agriculture, the man to decide on AA N~f packers thought 1t worth while to dis pute.
 You may possibly remember the re- | cent judicial decision In Chicago, in
 which the packers were concerned. I | wish to repeat that this provision Is, | in my judgment, one which if enacted 1 into law. will nullify the major part of the gooo which can be expected from the enactment of this law You as-
 sert that the packers insist upon hav- ing rigid inspection law passed If they sincerely desire a rigid inspection law. they will insist upon this provi-
 sion beink taken out. Leaving 1t incompatible with securing a properly | efficient law.
 "To so much of your letter as speaks of my having made innuendos about a | committee of the House. or of your
 knowledge of the English language. l etc 1t Is not necessary to make any
 answer. You state if or my advisors
 will point out specifically wherein l bill fails to accomplish my purpose. 1 "it will be promptly remedied.'
 | "I am happy 10 tell you that I have today seen a member of your commit
 tee. MT. Adams, seeing him by request l of the speaker. and I went over with l him together with Mir. McCabe and MT. Reynoids, the various points in which the bill as you have reported 1t. fails
 to accomplish our purpose. and make l the specific recommendation necessary
 n each case to remedy the failure; and ] in each case Mir. Adams stated that he i nersonally would accept the altera-
 tions we proposed. He agreed with me | that the court review proposition should be excluded. Tle agrees as to | the dozen other changes which we | think should be maSe If these chang | es, which MT Adams says he thinks should be adopted, are adopted. your
 amendment will become as good as the | Bevaridge amendment, in MT. McCabe E | opinion somewhat better than
 the Beveridge amendment Is, unchank- | d
 | "T aaro not uhft for the Ian 0lia Sa