The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-19
MEAT INSPECTION
MEASURE PASSES
Continued From First Page.

not to take out their locomotives to.
morrow. The government has made
the more important Of them and any
omissions that have been made will be
supplied when the bill goes over to the
senate and will be adjusted in confer
ence between. the two houses This was
Beveridge, who saw the president yes
terday afternoon and talked meat in
spection to him for an hour.
The committee met yesterday imrle.
diately following the action Of the
house in 1rscommitting the bill, and
Chairman Wadsworth and Representa-
tive Brooks of Colorado were made a.
subcommittee to whip the bill into form
These gentlemen, at the suggestion Of
| Speaker Cannon, first called on the
president to get his views afresh. They
found that the president was still in
sisting. on all the points which were
made in his talk with Representative
Adams of the committee last Friday.
But as to certain Of these points he
| unabated, would not take the extreme
form of a veto. 5
Strike Out Bad Points.
When Wadsworth and Brooks got to-
gether, after seeing the president, they
promptly struck from the bill every one
of the contested points which the presi-
veto. Among these were the labelling Of
the canned meats and the various spe-
cife statements that. the regulations
should be such as the secretary Of agri-
/ culture might approve.
To have retained these latter pro-
visions would have been to prevent any
common law appeal to the courts from
| . or OF 90 ho 1avxv "a
president said that he would sign the
bill with these omissions, provided the
court review section were stricken out.
All the other points made by the presi-
! dent were complied with, excepting that
having the packers pay the cost of in
| spection. On this point the president
| said that if the committee would make
q permanent appropriation Of $4,000
900 q year for inspection, he would be
satisfied, the sum in his Judgment being
i sufficient for all purposes. =.
49,. Davis to Offer Compromise.
Representative. Davis had intended
when the bill got before the house, to
offer an amendment along the lines Of
his compromise, heretofore mentioned
in this correspondence, providing that
the packers shall pay for all inspection
of canned meat products.
DR.. Davis saw the president yesterday
afternoon, who told him that he liked
his compromise proposition very much
and hoped it might be adopted. He
also congratulated Mr.. Davis over hav-
ing had incorporated into the bill sat
isfactory penalty provisions and the
inspect ion of the livestock before it
i goes into the Strengthening pens.
i In speaking Of the abandonment of
the civil service feature. Of the bill, the
). majority members Of the committee
said yesterday that they had drafted
. that provision out Of respect for the
wishes of Secretary Wilson. @@- 81
..- Civil Service Dispute.
, am in position to say definitely that
the secretary did not ask to have the
, civil service rules set aside in the ap
pointment of inspectors and did not
! know such a provision was in the bill
: until the president raised a question
, about it. He had been assuming that
J thes civil service was to apply and hac
7 talready found out th~t there were forty
five eligibles~ on zthe=list and called an
: other examination for the 25th Of thi'
month. <"''> {"@~' - =
:: Because the president said to Messrs
t Wadsworth and Brooks yesterday, tina
: he would not veto the bill if it did no
= l.quite suit him as to the two matter
t above referred to, those gentlemen ar,
/ circulating the report that the bill a
new prepared is precisely what tn
i president wants. ,g
/ The interesting thing about yester
t days happenings is the alacrity wit
q which the majority Of the agriculture
] committee ran to cover from the presi
j. dent g criticisms and the haste they dis
il Iplayed in trying to have the bill NEE
!. his approval. The bulldog front put u
e by Chairman Wadsworth all last wee!
d makes his turning about the more re
: markable.
; Davis Congratulated.
i Mr.. Davis Of Minnesota is bein
- warmly congratulated over the stand h
"a has taken on this question. At one tim
=. he was almost the only member Of tn
Minnesota house delegation who wa
standing out for what the presiden
neutrality-suspicious. that inspects. :.
j. The president g interview with hi
e yesterday afternoon was of very sati
n Factory sort, on both sides. Mr.. Davi
4 is sure that he has the president al
d prevail and good will in the effort whic
e he made, against strong odds, to hav
IT the agriculture committee do the rigt
v thing by the people of the country o
m the inspection question. -. ~
r The bill which will become a la
G will be the house bill with such ament
ments as may be made to- it by tt
n house and senate, and in conference.
e The Beveridge bill seems to have bee
X belongs the great credit of havin
J. started the agitation in congress
It and got the senate. to precipitate It
e fight by adopting his measure as ride
x the agricultural appropriation bill.