Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-31
At THE WHITE HOUSE
President and Family Back
From Norfolk.
MEAT INSPECTION TALK
Speaker Cannon and Representative
Wadsworth Confer.
ASKED TO SPEAK IN KENTUCKY
At Commencement Exercises Of the
State College, but Was Com
PEELED to Decline.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt and the
members of their family who went to Nor
folk for Memorial day, returned to WASH
ington about 10 o'clock this morning on the
Mayfiower, the Presidents private yacht
They reached the White House about 1880
O'Clock and the President, on entering the
executive offices, found large number or
visitors awaiting him. Some of them were
merely DESTROYS of shaking hands and pay
ing respects, but there were others who
had important business to take up.
Speaker Cannon, Representative Wads-
worth, Representative Littauer and Sen
ator Carter were among those who had
talks with the President 1t Is pretty GER
tain that all of them touched upon the
meat inspection question. and that Speaker
Cannon and the President conferred about
the wisdom of passing the resolution OF
Representative Williams. directing that the
report of Messrs. Neill and Reynolds be
sent to the House for the information of
that body. Speaker Cannon was unusually
uncommunicative on this subject
Representative Wadsworth is chairman. of
the agricultural committee of the House,
and IN that position will have immense
weight in whatever Is to be done by the
House and Senate leaders. Mr.. Wads-
worths visit somewhat brief, and he
hurried away to the House to wrestle with
the problem.
A good many members of Congress be-
lieve there has been too much hysteria
about the meat business, and that when 1t
Gains down there will be a disposition to
do whatever is fair to the packers and all
other interests concerned. In all fairness
to the packers the belief is that the hys-
terra has gone too far. and has been dam
aging far beyond the just deserts of the
industry
AS to making public the report by having
1t sent to Congress, the program seems to
be somewhat unsettled with disinclina-
ton to permit the passage of anything of
this kind. The view was expressed today
by at least one man who saw the Presi-
dent that no possible good could be accom-
plished by making the report public by
sending 1t to the House. Another point
against forcing the report to the public is
that, after all, by far the larger part of 1t
is made up of hearsay matter not more
than per cent being corroborated by
actual affidavits that can be relied upon
While the hearsay material has been suffi-
cient to Justify the legislation proposed in
Congress, 1t might not be sufficient to go
to the public as actual fact.
Some of the friends of the packers now
assert that the gossip about the whole mat
ter has been as harmful as could possibly
be the publication of the report itself and
they go as far as to express the opinion
that the actual publication of the report
might cause reaction in favor of the pack
ers by reason of the large amount of uncor-
roborated material that 1t undoubtedly con-
tains
AS far as possible the disposition of the
House and Senate leaders will be to defer
action on the whole thing until there Is
cooling down all along the line, so that the
will be the product of careful
and wise consideration and not of senti-
mentality or prejudice.
Invited to Kentucky.
Senator McCreary of Kentucky today in
vited the President to deliver an address
June T. on the occasion of the commence
ment exercises of the State College of Ken
lucky az Lexington. Senator McCreary is
in a degree the founder of this institution.
The President said that, much as he would
like to visit the college and it's students, he
would not be able to get away from Wash
ington at the time fixed.
Representative Parsons of New York had
a talk with the President today about the
additional Judge for the southern district of
New York which was provided for by Con-
gress- There are a number of candidates
for the place. Mr.. Parsons is chairman of
the republican committee of New York and
is understood to have a preference for the
appointment.
Representative Greene of Massachusetts
troduced to the President Mr. and Mrs.
joseph d. Burlington and Mrs Charles NJ.
Horton of Fall River. Mr. Burlington and
Mrs. Horton are son and daughter of
J6 mes Burlington, who represented Mr..
Greene's district I'm Congress several terms.
between 1855 and 1875. Mr.. Burlington died
as he reached his home at the close of a
session of Congress in 1873. His widow is
now in her ninety-eighth year and in good
health.
Representative Cole of Ohio also intro
duced some friends, among them Prof.
Young of Ada, a candidate for dairy and
food commissioner of that state.