Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-15
COMMITTEES to Stand Pat.


tion to the bill.
Committee to Stand Pat.
From today's development IL seems that
the committee is not going to be In a hurry
to come around TO the Presidents way Of
thinking, particularly as the regulations
for adequate night inspection on which the
President bases his chief criticism are held
TO be as strong as language can make them
Chairman Wadsworth had an informal con-
ference today with Representative Lorimer
and several other members OF his commit
tee, and they agreed that for the present at
least they would stand by their guns Later
Representative Wadsworth talked with
Speaker Cannon about the matter, but after
the conference Mr.. Wadsworth was as I'M
communicative clam.
The members OF the Illinois delegation.
including Representative Rainey. the lone
democrat In the House from that state.
held a conference yesterday and decided TO
support the substitute. And since the Pres
dents letter was received they have mani
Tested no inclination whatever to about
face on the proposition.
But the friends of the original Beveridge
amendment have. OF course. taken heart
and will put up a fight for it on the floor
of the House. Some little effort to organize
the opposition to the committees substi-
tute Is being made. Representative Ames
OF Massachusetts, was active In this work
today. Mr.. Ames was the first member OF
the House to discuss the matter on the
floor since the agitation began.
The Speaker Expects Adequate Legisla-
ton.
Speaker Cannon this afternoon, when
approached by a reporter for The Star,
said:
81 do not care to discuss In the press
the report of the House committee re-
garding meat inspection. 1t is now pend
ING hafora no In
with other members of the House, / am
satisfied 1t will receive safe and sane con-
sideration, and when Congress adJourns
legislation will be enacted to provide for
efficient inspection for one-third of the
worlds products finding market in the
United States and in foreign countries.
''The floor of the House, touching the
matter of pending legislation. is the place
for debate. consideration and action"
Chairman Wadsworth has written let
ter to President Roosevelt in reply to that
received by him from the White House
last night.
The Presidents Objections.
The following statement to the Presi-
dents attitude on the meat inspection ques-
ton was given out at the White House to-
day:
''In the letter to Mr.. Wadsworth the Presi-
dent stated that almost every change In the
proposed House amendment was a change
for the worse as compared with the Senate
amendment. and that, no matter how unin-
tentonally. IL was. in the. Presidents judg-
ment. framed to minimize the chance
of roofing out the evils in the packing busi-
ness: that the President felt 1t would doubt
less suit those packers who objected to
thoroughgoing inspection. but that he also
felt II would in the long run be a heavy blow
to the honest stock raiser and the honest
packer: that the proposed amendment would
greatly hamper the Secretary of Agriculture
in doing the work appointed him to do. and
would Simply defer the dly when could
restore the foreign and interstate trade in
meat TO a satisfactory position. The Presi-
dent has explained verbally that he Is far
less concerned with the question as to
whether the packers the government
should pay for the inspection than with GER
tain other features of the bill"